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MIT lends prowess for Puma’s cushioning

06/08/2020
MIT lends prowess for Puma’s cushioning

XETIC takes its name from “auxetic materials”, which behave in a certain way when they are subjected to mechanical stresses such as compression. 

PUMA and MIT Design Lab worked with runners to analyse individual running specifics and developed a structure that allows for “progressive cushioning”, they said. The result was a structure shaped like a horizontal number eight.

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