Right to left: U of T researcher Nazir Kherani co-founder of 3E Nano Inc., with chairman and cofounder Dan Shea, CEO Steve Ferrero and MP Yvan Baker after the presentation of $5 million in federal funding for the startup
Right to left: U of T researcher Nazir Kherani co-founder of 3E Nano Inc., with chairman and cofounder Dan Shea, CEO Steve Ferrero and MP Yvan Baker after the presentation of $5 million in federal funding for the startup University of Toronto researcher Nazir Kherani and his collaborators at the startup 3E Nano Inc have one goal: to design the perfect window. That includes a nano-thin window coating that can more than double the thermal protection for residential and commercial windows. That technology is now on its way to commercialization, thanks in part to $5 million in new federal funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. "Windows are the weakest energy link in any building," says Kherani, a professor in the department of material science and engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering who is jointly appointed to the Edward S. Rogers Sr. department of electrical and computer engineering. "Think of heat escaping in the winter months and heat entering the cool, ventilated space during the summer months," says Kherani, who co-founded 3E Nano in 2015. Kherani explains that a window's resistance to heat flow is measured by the R-value, which increases based on its ability to prevent heat from flowing into or escaping from a building. Currently, 3E Nano windows - in prototype as well as in pre-alpha deployment - rate R8 and higher. "This compares remarkably to an average window whose R-value lies in a range from R1 of a single pane, to R3, a dual pane." How was 3E Nano able to achieve this breakthrough?
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