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ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Energy management is a crucial problem of this time and a lot of solutions to this problem are being investigated. Harvesters based on polymers and nanomaterials have utmost significance in…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars has inefficiencies and produces the dangerous byproduct of hydrogen. I have developed a system that offers a resource-efficient alte…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Pura Aer (PA) is an air purifier system that repurposes disposable face masks and integrates a peregrine falcon-inspired fan design. PA was developed in four phases, with design criteria set…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In a standard silicon solar cell, the photovoltaic effect generates excited electrons which are transported to the surface of the cell. The problem of collecting these excited charges from t…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the global environmental, economic, and energy crisis, an attempt was made to find an eco-friendly and sustainable energy source based on the lignocellulosic biomass of Sargassum flui…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Nowadays, 1% of the total garbage in cities worldwide comes from non-rechargeable batteries and piles. These sources of energy are used primarily in wristwatches. Thus, the research focused…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Health and environmental problems result from both the release of dyes into ecosystems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation via fossil fuel combustion. To create a cost-effect…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Charging an electronic device using solar and wind renewable energy was the purpose of this engineering project. Various materials were tested to design the wind turbine blades to satisfy th…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, we are looking for a more sustainable energy source that does not negatively impact the environment, like air, water, and land pollution. We might think of wind, solar, or geothermal…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Objective: To synthesize the co-doped carbon material to attain high specific capacitance using renewable resources (sodium lignosulfonate) for supercapacitor application. Background: Superc…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Chemical-based batteries such as lithium or any conventional battery fall under the label of a chemical battery. Biomorphic batteries are a new prospecting alternative battery that utilizes…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our project was to determine which turbine between the Pelton and Kaplan was more efficient on a small scale, and determine whether or not the turbines would be efficient enou…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of thin-film hydrophobic coatings on a photovoltaic cell (solar panel) had an impact on the energy output of the panel. The ex…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) can convert visible light into electricity through cell sensitization. As they’re cheaper and more environmentally friendly to produce than silicon photovol…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In today’s world, electric cars have a more prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
The world is scrambling for renewable and environmentally friendly biofuels in the hopes of omitting fossil fuels that have harmed the earth. The environmental impacts of these malicious fue…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Global warming and the increasing amount of pollutants in our oceans, rivers, and land have been slowly increasing throughout the years. Many of these environmental problems our earth is fac…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
In observance of the fast and continuous growth of global CO2 atmospheric level, the recent development of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction features as an attractive approach that can convert…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar tracking is a technique used to increase the energy efficiency of a solar panel by orienting solar panels to face the sun as it travels across the sky. Challenges faced by solar tracki…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are numerous natural ways to generate electricity, such as water, wind, atomic power, sun, etc. The problem is that those sources are not stable, some require special isolated conditio…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In the experiment, the group decided to investigate which genre of music creates the most amount of energy by using a mechanism that will use sound waves to convert them into energy. They fi…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
The synthesis of a self-charging through light supercapacitor has been executed with exceptional energy storage properties. Conventional photo capacitors face a major disadvantage of relativ…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Lithium-ion batteries are a crucial component in many applications. Failure to understand the battery lifetime can lead to rapid degradation, emission of harmful gases, and fatal explosions.…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydropower is one of the most abundance sources of renewable energy in the U.S. Water Distilleries remove almost all chemicals and pesticides, which produces water that can be better for peo…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The presented hydrogen generator is efficient in combination with a hydrogen fuel cell. Imagine an electric car that runs on electric power accumulated in its battery. Battery charged at a l…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant, energy can be transformed from one form to another but can neither be created nor destroyed.…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Though acquiring about 99% of its yearly electrical energy from hydropower plants, Juneau is nearing its consuming capacity. As global warming advances, more and more people are switching to…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A circular thermoelectric generator (CTEG) device will be built to recycle the wasted thermal energy given off by an automobile exhaust pipe. The devices that will be utilized to build the C…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Green hydrogen is a continuously rising way of storing clean energy, wherein electricity from renewable sources is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Unfortunately, current materi…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are two types of steam turbines - impulse (with 0% degree of reaction, which means the pressure drop entirely takes place in the stationary blades) and reaction (with 50% degree of rea…