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ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Hydrogen is one of the cleanest forms of energy storage that, when burned, produces only water as a byproduct. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen is greatly limited due to the costly material…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
As the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, cellulose represents a promising and sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels and value-added chemicals. Due to its recalcitrant nature,…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Biofuels are currently being made with food crops. However, due to the growing issue of world hunger an alternative biomass was research. With reference to previous studies, cardboard proved…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, the first human will be sent to Mars by 2033. Oxygen generation will be a vital part of any human expedition to Mars, however, current…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The drastic increase in fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by conventional vehicles calls for a greener and environmentally friendly alternative, most notably electric vehi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Ocean waves can generate power 90% of the time, making them the most reliable source of clean energy in the world. Places like Hawaii, which are surrounded by waves, can significantly benefi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Rechargeable aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are receiving considerable attention as a desirable device for large-scale energy storage owing to high theoretical capacity and abundance of alumi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. This experiment focused on designing, engineering, and prod…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of my project was to design a system that cooled a solar cell using the renewable energy of the sun. Knowing that a cooled solar cell performs better than a non-cooled solar cell I…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This experiment tests the efficiency of three different metal electrodes in the process of hydrolysis. The hypothesis of the experiment is that the catalysts will have an effect on the effic…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) utilize fluorescent dyes in a transparent material to absorb diffuse radiation in the ultraviolet region and re-emit it as visible light. The emitted li…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to help people worldwide that are affected by street violence to be able to defend themselves. Women safety is a big issue worldwide and there are self defense…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The objective of this project is to measure the effects of adaptive control on the performance of a wave energy converter (WEC). Ocean wave energy is one of the most promising sources of ren…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A novel organic electrode material (PGC) was developed through a facile copolymerization of polyethyleneimine (PEI), gallic acid (GA) and Cu2+ (CuCl2). PGC shows strong adhesion and numerous…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the high demand for renewable energy resources, large-scale energy storage systems are required to safely store the energy produced. Lithium-Ion batteries are the commercially dominant…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Over the past 100 years, the earth has been increasingly affected by the production of energy through toxic means, in particular - fossil fuels. However, recently wave energy has emerged as…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
It is expected that in 2030 Peru will begin to seriously feel the lack of water and the lack of access to electricity will worsen. So the proposed alternative solution is to build a generato…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Energy management is a crucial problem of this time and a lot of solutions to this problem are being investigated. Harvesters based on polymers and nanomaterials have utmost significance in…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars has inefficiencies and produces the dangerous byproduct of hydrogen. I have developed a system that offers a resource-efficient alte…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Pura Aer (PA) is an air purifier system that repurposes disposable face masks and integrates a peregrine falcon-inspired fan design. PA was developed in four phases, with design criteria set…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In a standard silicon solar cell, the photovoltaic effect generates excited electrons which are transported to the surface of the cell. The problem of collecting these excited charges from t…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the global environmental, economic, and energy crisis, an attempt was made to find an eco-friendly and sustainable energy source based on the lignocellulosic biomass of Sargassum flui…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Nowadays, 1% of the total garbage in cities worldwide comes from non-rechargeable batteries and piles. These sources of energy are used primarily in wristwatches. Thus, the research focused…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Health and environmental problems result from both the release of dyes into ecosystems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation via fossil fuel combustion. To create a cost-effect…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Charging an electronic device using solar and wind renewable energy was the purpose of this engineering project. Various materials were tested to design the wind turbine blades to satisfy th…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, we are looking for a more sustainable energy source that does not negatively impact the environment, like air, water, and land pollution. We might think of wind, solar, or geothermal…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Objective: To synthesize the co-doped carbon material to attain high specific capacitance using renewable resources (sodium lignosulfonate) for supercapacitor application. Background: Superc…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Chemical-based batteries such as lithium or any conventional battery fall under the label of a chemical battery. Biomorphic batteries are a new prospecting alternative battery that utilizes…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our project was to determine which turbine between the Pelton and Kaplan was more efficient on a small scale, and determine whether or not the turbines would be efficient enou…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of thin-film hydrophobic coatings on a photovoltaic cell (solar panel) had an impact on the energy output of the panel. The ex…