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Daicel-Evonik material offers sprinters “explosiveness”

15/10/2014

Japanese-based resin product joint-venture Daicel-Evonik has provided sports footwear brand ASICS with its Daiamid polyamide 12 elastomer for use in the sole of its Spike athletic shoe. It absorbs energy when a runner’s stride deforms it, but the material is firm yet flexible enough to release much of this energy back to the wearer. “The...

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