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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…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Consumption of non-renewable sources of energy for powering electronic devices is a common practice, causing the depletion of fossil fuels. The current project aims at the development of a p…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The future of our planet is balancing on a thread: combating climate change. Natural substances and fossil fuels are not replenished at the speed at which they are consumed, yet there are ev…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Heating, cooling, and ventilation consume $122 billion/year in the US. Improving the systems’ efficiency, even just slightly, will lead to significant cost savings. The goal is to develop hi…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In contemporary fuel cell technology, carbon-based nano-scaled materials display great potential to improve fuel efficiency and reduce cost. However, their relatively low activity limits the…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar energy is clean and free, and in abundance. Fossil fuel consumption is growing globally at an unstainable rate, and there is a need for renewable, nonpolluting sources of energy. Newer…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The discovery of bacteria capable of converting the chemical energy of organic matter into electricity can lead us to a new form of green energy: Bioelectrical systems (BES). BES can help so…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Cellulosic ethanol is a renewable, alternative fuel that could reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. However, cellulose is resistant to breaking down into glucose because its crystalline stru…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
It was hypothesized that the solar paver would be more efficient at colder temperatures, due to the greater difference in voltage as electrons move inside the paver. Along with this, differe…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The profitable catalytic converter Shammah Ruvimbo Tayengwa Global warming, fuel crises and inadequate raw materials in food manufacturing are problems being faced in our globe. However, the…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to test the ability of magnifiers such as SiO2, lenses and mirrors to increase the energy produced by fluorescent proteins GFP and EBFP2-BFP, a UV protein.…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Well-designed small wind turbine generators demonstrate high potential to capture turbulent wind power. We can break up the load of a large generator to many smaller ones to power local resi…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental pollution has been an issue of great importance and concern for many countries. Livestock is an agricultural activity that contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using piezoelectricity to create a self-powered calculator. A solar-powered scientific calculator was disassembled for this stud…