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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Biochemical methods that enable rapid and early diagnosis are critical to disease and patient management. Of unequivocal importance to addressing these issues is the study of interactions be…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminol exhibits repeatedly strong and momentary chemiluminescence in the presence of SCN- and low Cu2+ concentrations, which is typically ascribed to the formation of HO2. However, the decr…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine if cellulose acetate extracted from cigarette filters could enhance the properties of plastic and reduce the amount of plastic used for the produ…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Improper signaling of the nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) pathway plays a critical role in many inflammatory disease states, including cancer, stroke, and viral infections. Although a majority of…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Conjugated nitroalkenes are very useful substrates for the synthesis of biologically active compounds by different routes. Thus, fluoronitroalkenes may be used as precursors for fluorine-con…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Demand for non-addictive, tissue-specific pain relief has been growing ever since the IOM confirmed that pain afflicts more Americans than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. In ye…