Neill Ricketts of Versarien talks about their collaboration with Flux Footwear to launch a graphene enhanced shoe

Neill Ricketts, CEO of Versarien #VRS talks about their collaboration with US-based Flux Footwear LLC, an adaptive footwear company, the Company will be supplying graphene enhanced elastomers to Flux to bring an improved model of Flux's 'Adapt' shoe, the 'AdaptMid', to market.

Highlights

Under the terms of the partnership, the 'Adapt' barefoot athleisure model has been enhanced with Versarien's Graphene-Wear™ technology, following research and testing to improve the rubber outsole, augmenting the shoe's mechanical and physical properties. The new model, the 'AdaptMid', provides greater durability through improved abrasion resistance whilst maintaining the shoe's traction characteristics. 

Flux will be launching the 'AdaptMid' model in Autumn/Winter 2022. Ahead of the launch, a limited number of shoes can be pre-ordered in the UK directly through the Versarien products website via the following link: www.versarienproducts.co.uk.

This technology has been developed by the Company's in-house technology teams at University of Manchester and University of Cambridge as part of the GSCALE project and has the potential for multiple elastomer projects.