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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prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…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…
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…