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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…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The increasing focus on decarbonization has brought hydrogen into the center role in the quest for sustainable solutions. As the hydrogen economy is expected to grow, new detection methods a…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This science fair project is about Peltier tiles and determining if the heating and cooling of this device is an ample form of electricity. Peltier tiles will be used to harness energy to pr…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Wind energy is cubically proportional to wind velocity. As altitude increases, wind velocity not only significantly increases but also becomes more consistent in direction and intensity. How…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Reliance on fossil fuels has caused a large increase in carbon emissions across the world, with a 43% increase of carbon in our atmosphere since 2003. Aside from this, since 2021, the costs…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Annually, millions of lives are lost due to climate change-related factors, predominantly stemming from carbon dioxide emissions linked to fossil fuels. In this research, the development of…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which airfoil would have the greatest effect in wind energy production. There were four different airfoils tested: NACA0018, NACA23012, SG6043…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project is to determine whether alternative carbon-based fuel sources have a cleaner emissions output than gasoline. As the world changes so do laws around fuel utilizati…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Amidst detrimental environmental challenges and irreversible climate damage, piezoelectric energy harvesting emerges as a promising green technology. Piezoelectric materials, capable of gene…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy and concerns over the environmental impacts of current battery production methods highlight the need for more sustainable energy storage solutions. S…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research is intended to determine ways to maximize the efficiency of solar cells using reflective materials. The objective was to investigate whether the use of reflective materials can…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
For over a year, the majority of households in Haiti have been without power. This is the cause of large amounts of food waste due to a lack of cheap and accessible methods of food conservat…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the world pivots away from fossil fuels, the challenge becomes to satisfy the world's energy needs with intermittent zero-carbon sources such as wind and solar energy. In order to balance…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Globally, 775 million people don’t have access to electricity. Maximizing the use of renewable energies could enable more people to have access to electricity, however renewable energies are…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The development of new forms of energy sources and their adaptation to the environment is thought to be the primary priority path for resolving the energy crisis and global climate change, t…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Sources of renewable energy and clean water are threatened due to rising temperatures, which can trigger eutrophication. Biophotovoltaic fuel cells using microalgae and integrated wastewater…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Biomass-derived porous carbon materials have attracted researchers’ attention due to their availability and plentiful. Acacia auriculiformis is a biomass distributed throughout the world and…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to test how the correlation between how the amplitude of the waves affected the amount of electricity the buoy wave energy was able to produce. I hypothesize…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project focuses on the development of dye-sensitized organic solar cells, which replicate the process of photosynthesis by using plant-based pigments to capture and convert light energy…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Structural Supercapacitors (SCs) are electrochemical energy storage devices that utilize the abundance of cement as an electrolyte by employing its high porosity as ion transport channels to…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Perovskite solar cells have been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to conventional polycrystalline silicon solar cells due to their excellent photovoltaic properties, flexib…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Rechargeable batteries are powering the rise in plug-in electric vehicles and intermittent renewable energy storage/transport/utilization in the electricity grid. Aluminum-ion batteries hold…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Disused tires: an alternative to produce biogas" is to give a beneficial use to used tires and cow excrement, two major polluters, therefore decrease the accumulation of them and thus reduc…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change is a very current and real problem, and the most effective way to combat it would be to switch energy production from unsustainable fossil fuels to sustainable, renewable ener…