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Eyewear
Our patented, gecko-inspired nose pads and temple tip grips provide the strongest, most comfortable grip on the market, even on sweaty skin. Whether you’re on your bike, running, or simply working on your laptop, you’ll never need to worry about your eyewear slipping again. No matter how sweaty you get, and which direction you move or bounce your glasses will stay perched in the same spot!
Our consumer brand stick-on nose pads (the #1 Seller on Amazon!) and temple tip grips are available as an add-on to your full frame eyewear.
Our high friction technology also is available as a custom in-mold surface treatment for nose pads and temple tips that are injection molded.
THE TECH
THE TECH
Thousands of mushroom shaped fibers mimic geckos’ toe hairs – i/e/ setae.
Flexible Setex fibers provide soft, confortable contact to skin.
Setex’s microstructures provide a secure grip in wet and oily conditions.
Consumer Electronics
While traditional anti-slip surfaces and textures can grip to skin in dry conditions, when sweat is introduced, things start really slipping. Video game controller grips become sweaty and slick, earbuds fall out, and activity tracking bands can slide around creating issues for biometric sensors and cause skin irritation. Setex’s gecko-inspired gripping technology has a solution for this.
We have launched products under our Setex consumer brand for adding grip to video game controllers and wireless earbuds. Our thumbstick grips fit over the existing analog controller sticks and provide an ultra-strong grip even on sweaty thumbs and are available in 3 different heights. Our wireless earbud grip pads stick onto earbuds to prevent slipping and falling out, and are thin enough to not interfere with charging cases. Our technology is also available as a custom in-mold surface treatment to add the high-friction microfibers directly onto the surface of parts.
THE TECH
Setex grips are a high friction microfiber surface inspired by the microscopic hairs, or setae, of a gecko’s foot. The microfiber tips provide enhanced friction, and the gaps of space present in the fiber array function to wick away water and oil from the surface, improving the coefficient of friction even in these difficult conditions.
To incorporate this technology into products, Setex will treat the molding tool’s surface so that the resulting molded part is produced with high friction microfibers on the surface, directly integrated and made out of the same material as the part. These microfiber molded parts, using customer plastics, gain a significant increase in the coefficient of friction, typically over 200% to skin in wet and oily conditions and provide a more comfortable feel. Setex has demonstrated the ability to mold its high friction Setex-microfibers out of a wide range of polymer chemistries and hardness including thermoplastics, rubbers, and silicones.
Also available as pre-produced grip pads for secondary incorporation onto parts.