Many baseball players coat their bat handles with sticky pine tar to prevent that from happening.
Of course, you then drop the bat in the dust and it gets pretty cruddy. It's still experimental. But University of Massachusetts engineer Thomas Russell, who reviewed the French work, said the polymer is unique because it switches between sticky and slick merely when subjected to body temperature. Or think of a Band-Aid. De Crevoisier combined a Teflon-like material with a stickier chemical.