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Innovative Shoes Using Graphene Developed by IIT and FADEL

Creates footwear with better thermal properties.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The ability of graphene to add functionality to common objects has been exploited in a new product on the market: footwear with better thermal properties. Developed by Graphene Flagship partners Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, in collaboration with FADEL, a leading Italian shoe company based in Tuscany, the new GET technology, patented by FADEL, gives the footwear better thermoregulation and freshness.   In this innovative shoe, when flakes consisting of several graphene layers are add...

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