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Smart Fabric
Name:
Estelle and Savanah
Age:
11, 10
City:
Dublin
Country:
Ireland
Thema:
Water
Reward:
Finalist of the Global Children's Designathon 2017, Ireland
The team has come up with a new type of fabric that when water is pushed through it, by a lever the fabric will clean the water with the micro-pores in the fabric.
Currently there is much experimentation being done with graphene, as a way to filter water. Graphene oxide is impermeable to all gases and vapors, besides water, and further research revealed that an accurate mesh can be made to allow ultra-fast separation of impurities from water
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