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ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
My project aims to create a wearable triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to sustainably power a temperature sensor to prevent heat emergencies. I hypothesized that the triboelectricity produc…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars is an electrolysis system, which produces a dangerous byproduct of hydrogen and relies on water which is scarce in space. Alternativ…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Finding new and more efficient forms of clean energy is necessary for humanity to survive the coming centuries, and although current methods of nuclear fusion are promising, they also produc…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
In this project, I successfully studied the relationship between multi-enzyme biocatalyst structure and performance and developed a comprehensive quantitative model to predict the assembly e…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar energy conversion systems are crucial in life due to our dependency on electricity. They are green and renewable energy sources, thus, allows people to design multiple systems involvin…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
More than 2 million tons of waste printed circuit boards have been generated each year all over the world. The traditional procedures for recycling precious metal from these circuit boards r…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
In the process of thermal radiation, many materials release heat as light. A transmission window in the atmosphere allows infrared light to pass through. Because of this, the heat that is re…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Batteries are integral components of our daily life. The commercial batteries comprise a liquid electrolyte, that closes the electric circuit between the positive and negative electrodes. Al…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electric power is essential for human development and daily activities. Its importance has prompted systems development to generate it efficiently and supply a large demand. However, its pri…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable alternatives such as wind and solar power. This research introduces a new type of renewable power from rain, through the piezoelectr…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Running water has evolved into an aspect of life that is common for the majority of homes in this country. The process of running water is relatively inefficient, with great amounts of water…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Portable electronics, such as mobile phones and biomedical devices, have been integrated into the lifestyle of many people and are growing rapidly. These technologies rely heavily on batteri…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Purpose: The world's energy consumption is increasing day by day. This increasing energy need is largely obtained from coal and petroleum by-products. Greenhouse gases and aerosols are emitt…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Saguaro cacti can withstand high desert winds, using pleats and spines to redirect wind toward the top of the plant. Wind turbine towers can be improved by imitating the saguaro cactus. It w…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Production of energy from fossil fuel can cause a bad impact on the environment and destroy a vital source of raw material for other industries, recently electrical energy becomes more impor…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Starch-derived biofuels from first-generation feedstocks, like Zea mays (corn) and Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane), dominate the bioenergy market. The competing applications of these conve…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Last year’s research focused on synthesizing novel bipolar membranes (BPM) for fuel cells. The results showed that Pyrrole/Nafion™ BPM performance was at par or exceeded that of traditional…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The design of highly efficient and inexpensive bifunctional electrocatalysts that possess highly catalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction is desirab…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors that integrate energy harvesting and energy storage technologies have attracted so much attention over the last decade due to their importance in applications that require ra…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coal is a fuel widely used in cauldrons, which are fundamental for production of food and textile in the industries located in the Aburrá Valley (Medellín, Colombia). This fuel impacts envir…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Energy-dense algae are more suitable feedstocks for biodiesel and circumvent many of the problems posed by current biodiesel feedstocks, such as the requirement for arable land. Nannochlorop…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The search and implementation of less polluting alternatives of energy production has been more demanding, as the long-term impact of human beings on our environment becomes more visible. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In order to combat climate change and achieve global sustainability, recycling waste and reducing our use of fossil fuels is crucial as we continue moving forward. Hydrothermal carbonization…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
H2 is important as a promising green energy source. Conventional H2 production methods include the steam reforming of fossil resources, water electrolysis, biomass fermentation, and photocat…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A) PURPOSE The desire for energy is causing major land degradation, pollutions, increase in ozone layer depletion, causing diseases in mankind and increasing the rate of depletion of Mother…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) can efficiently convert hydrogen energy into electrical energy for easy use. The high cost of imported Pt/C catalysts used in the fuel cell restr…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
With the increase in the use of lithium-ion batteries, there is also increase in the waste of dead batteries which causes environmental problems. The recycling of lithium-ion batteries carri…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project demonstrates that a new paradigm in energy storage should be considered. Materials science engineers have historically focused on creating ever more energy dense materials to ge…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As environmental change has become a more prominent issue in the world, the need for alternative energy sources is ever growing. However, it is apparent that wind turbines are not nearly eff…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells are efficient electrochemical energy conversion devices that use hydrogen and oxygen as fuel and produce water as exhaust. As a result, they are one of th…