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Episode 53: μ: The Science of Ski Wax
Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast
Is There Any Alternative to Polymer Chains?
There are alternatives that are working. I'm guessing they're completely now banned from the PFA's are completely banned from the winter Olympics altogether. They might be functionalizing the polymer with a surfactant and this almost like a micell type of structure formed around the colloidal metal. And so adding these like as a suspension into ski waxes adds some level of, of hydrophobicity. Nobody really knows what's happening with them.
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