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ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research sought to address the toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) when released into the environment through the addition of nontoxic surfactants and the novel method of surface functi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Increased anthropogenic influence on the environment caused wide spread contamination of the surface waters with heavy metal ions and therefore development of the rapid and sensitive down to…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
K.O- drops, everyone knows these dangerous drugs from the media. I have heard more and more of instances where these drugs were used to make people helpless. Starting point of my idea was th…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is an emerging technology that treats a variety of cancers without any side effects. In PDT, photosensitizers accumulated near cancer tumors are activated t…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
About 20% of novel pharmaceuticals and 40% of novel agrochemicals appearing every year contain at least one fluorine atom in their structure. However, the lack of existing methods for obtain…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to its ability to serve as a linkage within larger molecules, 1,2,3-triazole derivatives are widely used in pharmaceuticals as means to facilitate stability, utility, and permeability. T…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of the project is the recovery of phosphorus by a thermal process, as the primary sources of phosphorus will be depleted in the next few years. Our educt is mainly sewage sludge ash,…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Recently, cutting edge 2-D materials have emerged in the field of photovoltaics for light energy conversion. Graphene, the 2-D version of graphite, has a high carrier mobility, transparency,…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are as many as 350,000 contaminated sites in the United States that require a cleanup over the next 30 years at an estimated cost of $250 billion. Phytoremediation is an effective way…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Benzene is a volatile organic compound and a recognized carcinogen linked to leukemia. The Environmental Protection Agency released a statement that claimed exposure to benzene levels above…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our experiment was to determine how the coating of a pill affects the rate at which a medicine enters the bloodstream. To represent the digestive process we used hydrochloric…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The copper(l)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition(CuAAC) is one of the premier example of click chemistry, a term which means a set of 'almost perfect' bond-forming reactions useful for rap…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterized by the formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The pathological hal…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be only dependent on concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles; howe…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this current study, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid was carried out by cyclical voltammetry utilizing novel Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode coated with doped (…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source. In order to allow the safe handling of hydrogen, however, it is important to redu…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my experiment was to understand self-healing polymers and their interaction with catalysts. I studied the speed of rebonding with and without external catalysts on self-healin…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent decades, due to rapid industrialization in many developing countries, there have been increased emissions of photochemical oxidants, whose main component is ozone. High ozone conce…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In rainy days, we can see a lot of liquid layers formed in the lattice of window screen. We hypothesized that the speed of layer popping is related to the properties of liquid. First, we obs…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Natural products have a long-standing history of providing medicinally important compounds from aspirin all the way to taxol. Our group has an interest in identifying medicinally relevant co…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental pollution by the oil spill effect is a serious problem in many places, its consequences affect not only to aquatic life but also to the whole ecosystem. Therefore, oil spill tr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Garlic and garlic extracts have numerous therapeutical properties that result from its organosulfuric compounds, notably allicin. The first primary objective of this experiment was to constr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Organic xanthates are widely used in synthesis due to the radical addition reaction. There are many examples of using xanthates with different functional groups (e.g. carbonyl, phosphoryl, e…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A one-pot approach has been developed for the preparation of Cu2O nanocubes from cupric nitrate in alkaline aqueous solutions containing fructose and ascorbic acid at 32 degrees clesius. In…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Benzodiazepine derivatives are promising compounds for treatment of nervous system disorders with wide spectrum of sedative, anxiolytic and myorelaxant action. Molecules of benzo[e][1,4]diaz…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Fluorine has allowed common therapies to become even more effective in treating many diseases because of the small size, low polarizability, and high electronegativity of the fluorine atom.…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Firefighter jackets can cost $2,200, which is very expensive, especially for some firefighting departments. This forces them to buy older, possibly less effective equipment. The jackets are…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this investigation was to measure the effect of L-arginine on cisplatin’s ability to disaggregate human superoxide dismutase 1 enzymes (hSOD1), which are found to aggregate in…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This essay attempts to discover how the temperature of water is affecting its molecular structure at the surface and what consequences this may bring to the surrounding us world. Also its ai…