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 · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In response to immense international energy demands, the industrial sector must witness a historic alteration for bulk energy storage with a wide range of up-scaling spectra for commercial u…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal. Hydrogen is a potential renewable energy source; however, cost-effective storage and transportation of hydrogen pose challenges. In th…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change continues to worsen through greenhouse gasses as up to 40 billion tons of gasses will be in the atmosphere by the end of 2023. With a fourth of those emissions coming from gas…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Sabatier reaction is a method of producing methane from gaseous hydrogen and carbon dioxide through heating in the presence of a nickel catalyst. This reaction has many potential applica…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to test if there was a correlation between mooring configurations and the amount of consistent electricity a submerged wave energy converter can produce. I hy…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
My research problem deals with the recent advancements in hydrogen fuel cell technology. The research of hydrogen fuel cells is important due to its modern use in automobiles, as well as its…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Several studies have shown that hydroelectric generation systems using an undershot water wheel can reach an efficiency of around 65%; however, making these generation systems out of Fused D…
CSEF · 2024
Alternative Energy Fourth Award
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With needs for electrical power increasing around the globe, this work will present a novel solution to meet energy demands by using the alternative energy generation of microbial fuel cells…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Access to energy remains a demanding issue for island and coastal inhabitants due to their remoteness, with an estimated 70% of Pacific islander households and 57% of sub-Saharan African res…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Given the anticipated scarcity of lithium, there is a potential risk of inadequate supply for future lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising alternatives to L…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project aims to maximize electricity production from wind energy, which is limited in cities due to space constraints. The prototype, with its green wall design, uses channelling winds…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With environmental disasters affecting poorer, disadvantaged communities in disproportionate amounts, solutions that are accessible (i.e. low-cost and abundant resources) are important for t…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity production is one of the greatest contributors to CO2 emissions, with its utilizations ranging from the heating of households to the charging of electronic devices. Piezoelectric…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As global reliance on fossil fuels exacerbates climate change, the search for a sustainable and clean energy storage solution has become increasingly critical. Most "clean energy solutions"…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Amidst rising energy prices, electricity use is being reduced in Germany. This necessitates shutting down streetlights, their operation being cost-inefficient for communities. The efficiency…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of insulating materials with a smaller carbon footprint. I hypothesized that sheep wool would be the most effective insulati…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
My experiment involving concentrated solar-thermal power investigated the efficiency of linear and parabolic energy systems for heat production targeting to identify the most effective model…
AJAS · 2024
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost of noble metal electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), most hydrogen prod…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Zimbabwe is a net importer of petroleum-based fuels. These are non renewable, expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Petroleum based fuels are expensive and the country has suffered from…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Evidence shows that energy consumers are adopting solar panels as an alternative to conventional energy for their environmental and economic advantages. More comprehensive data is needed to…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, the demand for cooling has surged, prompting growing interest in passive radiative cooling (PRC) technology has attracted considerable attention because it does not require…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) offer solutions to the drawbacks of traditional silicon solar cells. However, research is needed to identify and harness factors that may increase their ef…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In recent years, more renewable and clean forms of energy have emerged, among them is hydrogen energy. While it is an advantageous option, its downside, which prevents it from being more com…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon that happens in certain materials that generate electric charge under mechanical stress due to their non-centrosymmetric molecular structure. The developmen…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study focuses on efficient biodiesel production using rice bran oil as a renewable resource, aiming to determine the optimal conditions for transesterification. The free fatty acid cont…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Photovoltaic systems are becoming increasingly important. There is a central challenge to be solved here. Due to the series connection, the weakest cell always determines the total output. T…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Sediment pollution, a type of water pollution, degrades drinking water quality, disrupts ecosystems, and increases environmental risks. Anthropogenic causes comprise 70% of sediment pollutio…