Congratulations to the HeatFlex team, who won the GM Canada People’s Choice Award at the 2017 Nanotechnology Engineering Capstone Design Symposium.
HeatFlex’s Supavannan Jeyabalachandran, Amanda Victorious, Anahita Malvea, Tuba Opel and Mayuran Saravanapavanantham won the award for integrating conductive materials into a polymer matrix to create flexible, heat-generating fabric that can be used to create clothing.
While conventional apparel relies on insulation to keep its wearer warm on a cold day, HeatFlex aims to create clothing that can warm the wearer.
Their idea is based on Joule heating, which is heat dissipation that occurs when a current passes through conductive materials. They produced a conductive composite that acts as a flexible heat generator and can be incorporated into apparel.
GM Canada’s 2017 Nanotechnology Engineering Capstone Design Symposium People’s Choice Award winners: HeatFlex – Supavannan Jeyabalachandran, Amanda Victorious, Anahita Malvea, Tuba Opel and Mayuran Saravanapavanantham.