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Adidas adds sole to 3-D printing

by Alexander H. Tullo
April 17, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 16

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Credit: Carbon
Adidas is making athletic shoe soles with 3-D printing methods.
A photo of an Adidas shoe sole made with 3-D printing.
Credit: Carbon
Adidas is making athletic shoe soles with 3-D printing methods.

Adidas has unveiled Futurecraft 4D, the first shoe made using Carbon’s additive manufacturing technology. Founded by Joseph Desimone, a chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carbon developed a three-dimensional printing method that makes parts from photosensitive polymers using ultraviolet light and oxygen. Adidas hopes to have 5,000 pairs of shoes with 3-D printed midsoles available at retailers this fall.

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