What ingredients makes rubbers sticky?
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I do not think the chemicals are readily available as a public info unless you are a chemist or chemical engr.
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I tried to find a blog series that I read several years ago, written by a physics Ph.D-student (I think) explaining various aspects of TT in a scientific manner. For example, whether to combine hard blades with soft, medium or hard rubbers; or why Chinese rubbers result in the highest amount of top-end spin, and so on. But for the life of me, I can't find it again.
In that series, he stipulated that Chinese rubbers have a greater proportion of damaged polymers acting as 'fingers' (what makes them tacky/sticky) and grabbing onto the tiny indentations of TT balls, allowing for greater control when generating spin.
Perhaps someone recognizes what I am talking about and could post the link here, provided it still exists?
In that series, he stipulated that Chinese rubbers have a greater proportion of damaged polymers acting as 'fingers' (what makes them tacky/sticky) and grabbing onto the tiny indentations of TT balls, allowing for greater control when generating spin.
Perhaps someone recognizes what I am talking about and could post the link here, provided it still exists?
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Can't find your article, and can't argue about "control while spinning". But the old ITTF sponsored studies pretty much concluded that tacky rubbers are crap, less spin and less speed:
https://www.ittfeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/199408014%20-%20%20Tiefenbacher%20-%20Impact.pdf
BTW, shout-out to Brokenball for referencing the ITTF Education website. Old articles, but a treasure trove of technical (and tactical) resources.
https://www.ittfeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/199408014%20-%20%20Tiefenbacher%20-%20Impact.pdf
BTW, shout-out to Brokenball for referencing the ITTF Education website. Old articles, but a treasure trove of technical (and tactical) resources.
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[size=+2]AMERICAN FATHER TO THE H3 RUBBER.[/size]
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2035698
Dr. Harry Fisher, US rubber expert, had been the first one to do it, back in 1932. Super-duper tacky rubber material.
Unlike the sticky climbing shoes, table tennis rubber sheet is a ready-made vulcanizate plus some nitroso additives.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2035698
Dr. Harry Fisher, US rubber expert, had been the first one to do it, back in 1932. Super-duper tacky rubber material.
Unlike the sticky climbing shoes, table tennis rubber sheet is a ready-made vulcanizate plus some nitroso additives.
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I know the article you talk about as I read snippets of it on a UK TT equipment website...
The web page I found it in was this...
https://www.ttequipment.co.uk/equipment-advice/rubbers-information/rubber-types-tacky-vs-non-tacky/
That page does say the original authors website is unavailable. When you click the link it seems to say that the "thoughtsontabletennis" website is now private ?
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Brilliant. Thank you very much. I did try to contact the owner of the blog to see if we can get to access to it again since it was an excellent series.
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