Long-sprint races are won and lost in the curves and so Mic Lussier, adidas Innovation Team Leader, adidas America has created the finest curve running shoes in the world incorporating a nanoplate. This will allow the runners to push even better in the turn and provides them with even more physical confidence, stability and efficiency. Adidas previous shoe was a three-piece design, which included metal screw-in spikes and multiple fold points adhered together by cement. Leveraging new innovations from the plastics industry, adidas applied nanotechnology materials only previously used in the automotive and aerospace industries to design a carbon nanotubes reinforced full-length nanoplate. Mechanical and chemical bonds with the carbon nanotubes increase the structural integrity and durability of the plate. The new full-length plate measures about 1/3 the thickness of previous spike which weighs 50 percent less, making it the lightest spike ever created by adidas and provides more stability, comfort, better torsion, safety and increased flexibility while minimizing the energy loss.