Textile Engineering Lead @ Texavie Technologies Inc.,
Research Associate @ The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Harishkumar Narayana (PhD)
Smart Textiles for Remote Health Care
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
Working with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for developing the MarsWear Apparel as part of their Deep Space Healthcare Callenge.
Highlighted as top ten of Maclean's magazine the year ahead: Science and Technology in 2023 under Deep Space Healthcare Challenge.
My Role: Lead Textile Enginnering
Smart Textiles for Energy Harvesting Solutions
Major breakthrough in delivering "$1M MarsWear NEAT Energy Textile Project" with Canadian National Defence under their Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) innovation competition.
Development of Advanced Smart Medical Bandage
2018 - Present
Working on developing a smart medical bandage using memory polymeric film/yarn actuator for managing the chronic venous disorders. Integrating the flexible actuator and pressure sensor for real-time, wireless, and continuous pressure monitoring like never done before.
Project funded by: Mitacs Elevate Fellowship & Partner Industry - Texavie.
Labs: FEEL, CFET, AFML at UBC.
Textile Based Sensors for Physiology Monitoring
2019
Designing sensor fusion textile modality for human physiology monitoring.
Labs: FEEL, CFET, Texavie at UBC.
Smart Wearable E-textiles for VR / AR, Sports and Health
2018 - Present
Smart Memory Textiles
2017 - 2018
Designed a smart medical compression stocking using novel memory polymeric fibres via textile structural engineering.
Smart Memory Polymeric Fibres
2017
For the first time, the novel stress memory behavior is revealed at filament/fibre level based on semi-crystalline memory polymer. PHA-3000 based memory polymer was synthesized and prepared film and melt spun filaments for the comparison. The evolution of memory stress is studied with comprehensive thermal, mechanical, and structural characterizations. The stress memory behavior is also realized in the filaments integrative smart compression stockings with pressure related studies
Smart Memory Polymeric Material
2014 - 2016
Even though smart polymeric materials have been researched in many arenas in the past few decades, there are still opportunities to address their interesting behaviors. A novel stress-memory phenomenon of stimuli responsive polymers is discovered and reported in this chapter and a switch-spring-frame model is proposed to narrate such behavior. The concept and model represent a landmark in polymer physics. The discovery reveals promising potentials of such materials in many areas such as medical devices