38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is gaining interest in the scientific community as a promising alternative energy source. However, current MFCs have several limitations. Therefore, this…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Electric vehicles solve for fossil fuel-induced environmental damage, but 70% of consumers cite limited battery capacity as a major drawback. Replacing traditional graphite anodes with silic…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to natural disasters or wars, the power system suffers, resulting in power outages, economic shutdown and losses of millions of dollars. To minimize the impact of external factors on the…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Air batteries are an emerging technology for renewable energy storage. Their distinct chemical properties convert atmospheric oxygen into viable electric energy. Currently, air batteries are…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The increasing opportunities in large cities drive population influx, leading to a surge in public transportation usage. This results in congestion, delays, and safety concerns. Additionally…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The increasing reliance on electricity and fossil fuels for heating has led to rising energy costs, environmental degradation, and accessibility challenges in off-grid regions. To address th…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents an innovative solar cell chip that integrates micro-capacitors and micro-converters directly into the cell architecture to streamline DC-to-AC energy conversion. Traditio…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The escalating global energy demand necessitates innovative and efficient storage solutions. However, conventional energy storage devices often require external charging, which can be proble…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
With the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, businesses are seeking to substitute rapidly deteriorating batteries with more efficient, wireless, and environmentally sustainab…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Borophene is a newly synthesized material that is considered superior in various properties. Due to the challenges of hydrogen storage and transportation, hydrogen energy has not fully devel…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine how to maximize the energy produced by a wind turbine. Wind turbines are an effective way to generate power without burning fossil fuels. Burning…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hand-powered generators are essential during natural disasters, military missions, and in developing nations. The paperfuge is a paper centrifuge that uses the supercoiling of string to reac…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project explores how piezoelectricity in electric vehicle tires can generate energy and how different road conditions impact output. Climate change is an ongoing issue, and piezoelectri…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Harmony" suggests that the device does not only disconnect electricity, but also promotes the idea of integration and harmony between technology and protection. It is as if your device is p…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuel depletion drives the shift to alternative energy sources, this project aims to enhance efficiency and sustainability by combining a thermoelectric generator (TEG) with a photo…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's day and age, our world has been plunged into an energy crisis. Current clean energy solutions rely on lithium-ion batteries made with cobalt and lithium. These minerals are proble…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogel polymer electrolytes (HPEs) have gained considerable popularity in energy storage. Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymeric networks that can be extended multi-dimensionally via cross-li…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Kenya produces a substantial amount of maize annually. According to IPAD (International Product Assessment Division) in 2023, Kenya produced over 3.2 million tons of maize, with cobs being a…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) feature suboptimal graphite anodes with low cost efficiencies and poor energy densities compared to modern high-capacity anodes (HCAs). However, desp…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the advent of stretchable electronics, including implantable medical devices and portable electronics, there is a strong desire to develop thin, flexible batteries for these application…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a key technology for green hydrogen production. However, its widespread application is hindered by the scarcity of freshwater needed and the ch…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change and energy crisis are one of the most urgent problems facing humanity and require new solutions.Many Areas(China,India, USA, etc.) have experienced drastics climate change due…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Green hydrogen is a renewable fuel and is considered one of the most promising alternatives to fossil fuels; however, commercialized production is hampered due to the high production cost an…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Despite the outstanding electric properties and low cost of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and its derivatives, their performance as hole transport layer (HTLs) materials in conven…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose is to see if a Tesla Turbine can survive in the modern world as a source of small scale power generation, when compared to modern Pelton turbines. First I made the Tesla Turbine…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
While our modern society has successfully electrified the majority of the globe, there remain areas where geography and terrain significantly hinder the installation of conventional electric…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) poses uncertainty in its contribution to renewable energy due to the lack of a comprehensive design . The technology is in its early stages, requiring significant…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of smart devices in applications like wildlife tracking and blue energy has become widespread, relying on batteries to power devices in remote locations. However, the frequent mainte…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The average solar panel is able to convert around 15-20% of solar energy into chemical energy. Therefore, there is a mass amount of energy that has the capability to be captured and harnesse…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, the world is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables, necessitating energy storage due to the intermittent nature of these new sources. To address this issue, we turned to natur…