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ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Access to energy remains a demanding issue for island and coastal inhabitants due to their remoteness, with an estimated 70% of Pacific islander households and 57% of sub-Saharan African res…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Given the anticipated scarcity of lithium, there is a potential risk of inadequate supply for future lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising alternatives to L…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project aims to maximize electricity production from wind energy, which is limited in cities due to space constraints. The prototype, with its green wall design, uses channelling winds…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With environmental disasters affecting poorer, disadvantaged communities in disproportionate amounts, solutions that are accessible (i.e. low-cost and abundant resources) are important for t…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity production is one of the greatest contributors to CO2 emissions, with its utilizations ranging from the heating of households to the charging of electronic devices. Piezoelectric…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As global reliance on fossil fuels exacerbates climate change, the search for a sustainable and clean energy storage solution has become increasingly critical. Most "clean energy solutions"…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Amidst rising energy prices, electricity use is being reduced in Germany. This necessitates shutting down streetlights, their operation being cost-inefficient for communities. The efficiency…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of insulating materials with a smaller carbon footprint. I hypothesized that sheep wool would be the most effective insulati…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
My experiment involving concentrated solar-thermal power investigated the efficiency of linear and parabolic energy systems for heat production targeting to identify the most effective model…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Zimbabwe is a net importer of petroleum-based fuels. These are non renewable, expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Petroleum based fuels are expensive and the country has suffered from…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Evidence shows that energy consumers are adopting solar panels as an alternative to conventional energy for their environmental and economic advantages. More comprehensive data is needed to…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, the demand for cooling has surged, prompting growing interest in passive radiative cooling (PRC) technology has attracted considerable attention because it does not require…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) offer solutions to the drawbacks of traditional silicon solar cells. However, research is needed to identify and harness factors that may increase their ef…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In recent years, more renewable and clean forms of energy have emerged, among them is hydrogen energy. While it is an advantageous option, its downside, which prevents it from being more com…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon that happens in certain materials that generate electric charge under mechanical stress due to their non-centrosymmetric molecular structure. The developmen…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study focuses on efficient biodiesel production using rice bran oil as a renewable resource, aiming to determine the optimal conditions for transesterification. The free fatty acid cont…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Photovoltaic systems are becoming increasingly important. There is a central challenge to be solved here. Due to the series connection, the weakest cell always determines the total output. T…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Sediment pollution, a type of water pollution, degrades drinking water quality, disrupts ecosystems, and increases environmental risks. Anthropogenic causes comprise 70% of sediment pollutio…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The increasing focus on decarbonization has brought hydrogen into the center role in the quest for sustainable solutions. As the hydrogen economy is expected to grow, new detection methods a…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This science fair project is about Peltier tiles and determining if the heating and cooling of this device is an ample form of electricity. Peltier tiles will be used to harness energy to pr…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Wind energy is cubically proportional to wind velocity. As altitude increases, wind velocity not only significantly increases but also becomes more consistent in direction and intensity. How…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Reliance on fossil fuels has caused a large increase in carbon emissions across the world, with a 43% increase of carbon in our atmosphere since 2003. Aside from this, since 2021, the costs…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Annually, millions of lives are lost due to climate change-related factors, predominantly stemming from carbon dioxide emissions linked to fossil fuels. In this research, the development of…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which airfoil would have the greatest effect in wind energy production. There were four different airfoils tested: NACA0018, NACA23012, SG6043…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project is to determine whether alternative carbon-based fuel sources have a cleaner emissions output than gasoline. As the world changes so do laws around fuel utilizati…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Amidst detrimental environmental challenges and irreversible climate damage, piezoelectric energy harvesting emerges as a promising green technology. Piezoelectric materials, capable of gene…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy and concerns over the environmental impacts of current battery production methods highlight the need for more sustainable energy storage solutions. S…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research is intended to determine ways to maximize the efficiency of solar cells using reflective materials. The objective was to investigate whether the use of reflective materials can…