Browse 85 real Energy and Transport projects entered in 2016, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
An efficient and economically profitable process for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals such as methanol and formic acid was investigated to address the s…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As more and more hydrophobic compounds are turned away each year due to the fact that the cannot dissolve in the human body, the goal of this project was to a novel alginate-based drug deliv…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research was based on previous research conducted on obtaining biofuels from various food waste sources. It was determined that wasted grease was the best source for biofuel production.…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be dependent only on the concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles.…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Vehicle exhaust is one of the major pollution sources. An efficient method of emission control is to convert exhaust pollutants to less harmful substances by the catalyst placed in the exhau…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
This experiment investigates the synthesis, purification, and stability of encapsulated quantum dots. Quantum dots, specific types of nanoparticles ranging from 2-10 nm in diameter, emit spe…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study aims to develop mask containing pregnane glycoside extract from Sansevieria trifasciata leaves as harmful gaseous pollutants absorbent. The leaves extraction was performed with 96…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals There are over 4,544,000 pools in the United States of America, most of which are heated using natural gas. Solar pool heating saves gas and energy every year. One problem w…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
[18F]-Cyclopropanes are of great interest as potential compounds for diagnostic of tumor, numerous brain and heart diseases, for investigation of pharmacokinetics of drugs or natural compoun…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Metal cations and especially Mg2+ play a very important role in many biological processes such as RNA folding and catalysis. In order for Mg2+ to interact with RNA, a water molecule must fir…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
In this research, we present for the first time a new method to measure directly the concentration of different solutes present in a mixed solution in conjunction with a polarimeter. The key…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Cost-effective and easy-to-use biosensor was developed for the rapid quantification and monitoring of Escherichia (E.) Coli O157:H7 in a sample using E. Coli O157:H7 aptamer, graphene oxide…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Viral diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Methods currently used to diagnose viral infection take too long and are lab-based and expensive. An urgent need exists for a tool to d…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Protein misfolding is the root cause of many human diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Type II Diabetes). Proteins with folding defects are difficult to…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Soil buffering is the ability of soil to resist pH change, either towards the acidic or alkaline ends of the spectrum. The effects of certain factors on soil buffering are unknown: when a lo…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fluorescent sensors are important tool in modern chemistry, especially as express-method for monitoring of environmental pollution and distribution of microelements in living cells and organ…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigated a renewable source of energy that could be used on a roof to make homes more energy efficient and sustainable. The goal for the piezoelectric model…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My project is an alternative source of electricity that can help slow down global warming. My objective was to build a fuel cell that could generate useful electricity with…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to the traditional VSEPR theory, the calculation method of the number of central atom’s valence shell electron pair is limited. When studying the geometry of molecule (ion), people…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar cells are traditionally made of silicon, which is expensive to fabricate. Organic molecules are much cheaper to fabricate but are also less efficient than silicon in converting solar e…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the booming technological improvements in electronics market, whether it be consumer electronics and/ or electronic vehicles, the advantageous qualities of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) m…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Waterless dyeing is the new approach in textile dyeing in order to reduce or eliminate effluents and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is an alternative solvent being considered. Since it…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Characterization of excited-state behavior of inorganic complexes will limit the set of dyes for the optimal dye-sensitized solar cell. This study goaled to elucidate Jahn-Teller distortions…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals One way to use the abundant energy from Sun is to convert it into electricity using solar panels. Improving the efficiency of solar panels, currently under 20%, means more e…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Solar panels can diminish and produce less power when exposed to high temperatures. The objective of this experiment was to develop an efficient method of cooling down solar…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
When we did an experiment on electrolysis using mechanical pencil leads as electrodes, one of the electrodes happened to be broken and fell into the electrolytic solution. The experiment was…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to build mediator-less Microbial Fuel Cell (M.F.C.) and test fuel sources to determine which has the best potential for use in large scale…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Experts predict the earth's crude oil reserves will last another 40-70 years. The era of "green gold" will begin at that point, replacing "black gold" as a raw material source. The most impo…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental regulations on fuel quality have substantially limited the allowable amount of heavy (C9+) aromatics in gasoline, the principal components of heavy reformate. Thus, alternative…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Currently Medellin annually produces between 6000 to 9000 tons of residual organic material (Escalante Hernandez, 2014), which is considered a forest residue since it is the result of prunin…