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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…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Based on the last three years of research into alternative energy sources using microbial fuel cells (MFC) that answered which Utah lake mud, which electrode material, and which diameter gen…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy, combined with concerns over climate change, highlights the need for more sustainable energy sources. Piezoelectric energy harvesting is a renewable…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
As the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in 2021, CO2 emissions reached 36.3 gigatons. Therefore, there is a pressing need to find an efficient alternative for fossil fuels such as…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Centralized power grids in developed areas are currently the main benefactor of renewable energy advancements and are predicted to be completely renewable by 2032. However, with methods of e…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
By 2030, the world must ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy. However, the power generated from two potential renewable energy resources -solar cells and raindrop piezoe…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity access in homes is crucial to a modern-day standard of living, but harnessing energy efficiently from sustainable sources remains challenging. Due to the complexity and price of…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of renewable energy sources is growing globally, but the storage of this energy remains a major challenge. Traditional Methods rely on non-renewable energy. To address this issue, a…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's society, saving energy is a top priority. Why use harmful greenhouse gases that contaminate our atmosphere when clean energy is right at our fingertips? We just need to find a way…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Growing global demand and utilization of fossil fuels has accelerated growth in wealth, but also higher levels of pollution and the consequent degeneration of public health. Moreover, misman…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar Energy is one of the most promising methods of renewable energy in the world, however this method of production of energy has a certain flaw, which is that if the panel that produces s…
ISEF · 2023
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. A oxyhydrogen (HHO) gas wet cell system was designed, engin…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project looks at the aerodynamics of different semi fairing designs and their drag coefficients. This study looked into reducing diesel consumption by increasing the aerodynamic efficie…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Search for new methods of eco-friendly and grid independent methods of electricity production in remote areas remains important nowadays. Flow of water can be readily exploited for this purp…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Turbulent streamlines behind moving vehicles increase Drag forces acting on them, thus increasing energy consumption, which causes significant losses to the ministries of transport and vehic…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogen as a fuel is a clean source of energy to support zero-carbon energy strategies. However, most of the current major methods of producing hydrogen are fossil fuel reliant thus affecti…