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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…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Inhaling carbon monoxide can be fatal. Therefore, the invention of SPIXHAUST, a filter that can absorb carbon monoxide efficiently in the exhaust system can overcome this problem. Based on N…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Superparamagnetic iron(II,III) oxide silver cysteine complex nanoparticles (SISCCN) is an innovative, economical and highly reusable invention. 1 g of SISCCN can adsorb 281.13 mg mercury(II)…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coffee and tea are the two most common beverages in the world. Generally coffee is made from beans, while tea is from leaves. Every year, the tremendous amount of used coffee grounds and tea…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to create strips that can detect chemicals released in the human breath by breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer cells, to be placed in a breathalyzer, creati…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Optical Brighteners are frequently used as an additive in manufactured goods to enhance the appearance of said goods. Concerns regarding their toxicity in freshwater supplies led to an exper…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to test the effect of Calcium Lactate concentrations on the process of frozen reverse spherification. The hypothesis of this experiment was that higher concen…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Textile azo dyes are a significant pollution source worldwide. Azo dyes can be toxic and carcinogenic, and their contamination adversely impacts human and aquatic ecosystem health. Metal nan…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project tests how Gatorade reacts when exposed to UV light, which will be simulated by a UV lamp designed to replicate the effects of sunlight. The independent variable in this project…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study is to determine the levels of Antimony present in bottles containing different beverages after changing the temperature of the liquid. Bottles are often…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Flexible polyurethane foams have wide and prominent applications across US and global markets. This, along with the dangers and costs of vehicle and household fires, makes the incorporation…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Mpemba Effect is a rare phenomenon that results in the freezing of hot water faster as opposed to cold water temperatures. The foundation of this finding were the studies done by the Tan…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study involved the fabrication and characterization of copper substrates treated with six different self-assembling monolayers following electroless galvanic deposition of silver. The s…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Carbohydrates with (1-6)-linkage between monosaccharide units either in pyranoside or furanoside form are common in the structures of polysaccharides isolated from pathogenic bacteria and fu…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this report, two ultraviolet (UV)-light absorption molecules (D2, A2) were synthesized. Organic solar cell (OSC) based on these two molecules were fabricated and studied. The electron-don…