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ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar cells are traditionally made of silicon, which is expensive to fabricate. Organic molecules are much cheaper to fabricate but are also less efficient than silicon in converting solar e…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the booming technological improvements in electronics market, whether it be consumer electronics and/ or electronic vehicles, the advantageous qualities of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) m…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Waterless dyeing is the new approach in textile dyeing in order to reduce or eliminate effluents and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is an alternative solvent being considered. Since it…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Characterization of excited-state behavior of inorganic complexes will limit the set of dyes for the optimal dye-sensitized solar cell. This study goaled to elucidate Jahn-Teller distortions…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
When we did an experiment on electrolysis using mechanical pencil leads as electrodes, one of the electrodes happened to be broken and fell into the electrolytic solution. The experiment was…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Experts predict the earth's crude oil reserves will last another 40-70 years. The era of "green gold" will begin at that point, replacing "black gold" as a raw material source. The most impo…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental regulations on fuel quality have substantially limited the allowable amount of heavy (C9+) aromatics in gasoline, the principal components of heavy reformate. Thus, alternative…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Currently Medellin annually produces between 6000 to 9000 tons of residual organic material (Escalante Hernandez, 2014), which is considered a forest residue since it is the result of prunin…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Biochemical methods that enable rapid and early diagnosis are critical to disease and patient management. Of unequivocal importance to addressing these issues is the study of interactions be…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminol exhibits repeatedly strong and momentary chemiluminescence in the presence of SCN- and low Cu2+ concentrations, which is typically ascribed to the formation of HO2. However, the decr…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine if cellulose acetate extracted from cigarette filters could enhance the properties of plastic and reduce the amount of plastic used for the produ…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Improper signaling of the nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) pathway plays a critical role in many inflammatory disease states, including cancer, stroke, and viral infections. Although a majority of…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Conjugated nitroalkenes are very useful substrates for the synthesis of biologically active compounds by different routes. Thus, fluoronitroalkenes may be used as precursors for fluorine-con…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Demand for non-addictive, tissue-specific pain relief has been growing ever since the IOM confirmed that pain afflicts more Americans than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. In ye…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Carcinogenic and mutagenic dyes in industrial wastewater have significant adverse effects on aquatic flora and fauna. Current methods of physicochemical and biological treatments to eliminat…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A developing cancer treatment is photothermal ablation therapy (PTA), which uses the conversion of light to heat to kill cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles support surface plasmons, or waves o…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Nowadays, several heavy metals have been continuously used in industry, where lead (II) ion is the most harmful metal in Thailand. People nearby industrial areas have been inflected with ser…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Water and energy are linked. Water is needed for energy production and energy is needed for clean water production. Because many have limited access to both water and electricity, sustainabl…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of the research was to understand the processes going on under high voltage electrolysis and to bring attention to the possible applications of the new scientific field. Electrolysi…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world we live in is surrounded by a layer of contaminated grime and toxic agents which slowly but surely chip away at our immune system. These pollutants hold us back from a successful a…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Platinum-based drugs are irreplaceable in cancer chemotherapy, including three globally approved generations: cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, however, these drugs still have undesira…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In this work, experiments were conducted that used Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) on various bacterial samples with the goal of developing a method for the rapid determination of ba…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Water is essential for life. Waste water treatment is important for both the reuse of water and environmental protection. Removal of heavy metal from waste water is a big challenge. Cadmium,…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Heavy metals are increasingly found in drinking water worldwide from road, mining, agriculture and factory runoff. The heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, copper and lead are carcinogenic and cau…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Although the great porosity of metal organic frameworks (MOF) has been used to achieve excellent gas adsorptive properties, MOFs still largely remain unexplored for electrochemical energy st…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As climate change and pollution are on the rise, any way to eliminate greenhouse gases and harmful chemicals from our atmosphere would be beneficial. Large contributors to these emissions ar…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Through the use of Forensics Science, I developed a procedure that would allow me to test the hemoglobin in beef blood for possible false positives and false negatives. Using peroxidases and…