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ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Kenya produces a substantial amount of maize annually. According to IPAD (International Product Assessment Division) in 2023, Kenya produced over 3.2 million tons of maize, with cobs being a…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) feature suboptimal graphite anodes with low cost efficiencies and poor energy densities compared to modern high-capacity anodes (HCAs). However, desp…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the advent of stretchable electronics, including implantable medical devices and portable electronics, there is a strong desire to develop thin, flexible batteries for these application…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a key technology for green hydrogen production. However, its widespread application is hindered by the scarcity of freshwater needed and the ch…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change and energy crisis are one of the most urgent problems facing humanity and require new solutions.Many Areas(China,India, USA, etc.) have experienced drastics climate change due…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Green hydrogen is a renewable fuel and is considered one of the most promising alternatives to fossil fuels; however, commercialized production is hampered due to the high production cost an…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Despite the outstanding electric properties and low cost of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and its derivatives, their performance as hole transport layer (HTLs) materials in conven…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose is to see if a Tesla Turbine can survive in the modern world as a source of small scale power generation, when compared to modern Pelton turbines. First I made the Tesla Turbine…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
While our modern society has successfully electrified the majority of the globe, there remain areas where geography and terrain significantly hinder the installation of conventional electric…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) poses uncertainty in its contribution to renewable energy due to the lack of a comprehensive design . The technology is in its early stages, requiring significant…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of smart devices in applications like wildlife tracking and blue energy has become widespread, relying on batteries to power devices in remote locations. However, the frequent mainte…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The average solar panel is able to convert around 15-20% of solar energy into chemical energy. Therefore, there is a mass amount of energy that has the capability to be captured and harnesse…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, the world is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables, necessitating energy storage due to the intermittent nature of these new sources. To address this issue, we turned to natur…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In response to immense international energy demands, the industrial sector must witness a historic alteration for bulk energy storage with a wide range of up-scaling spectra for commercial u…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal. Hydrogen is a potential renewable energy source; however, cost-effective storage and transportation of hydrogen pose challenges. In th…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change continues to worsen through greenhouse gasses as up to 40 billion tons of gasses will be in the atmosphere by the end of 2023. With a fourth of those emissions coming from gas…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Sabatier reaction is a method of producing methane from gaseous hydrogen and carbon dioxide through heating in the presence of a nickel catalyst. This reaction has many potential applica…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to test if there was a correlation between mooring configurations and the amount of consistent electricity a submerged wave energy converter can produce. I hy…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
My research problem deals with the recent advancements in hydrogen fuel cell technology. The research of hydrogen fuel cells is important due to its modern use in automobiles, as well as its…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Several studies have shown that hydroelectric generation systems using an undershot water wheel can reach an efficiency of around 65%; however, making these generation systems out of Fused D…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With needs for electrical power increasing around the globe, this work will present a novel solution to meet energy demands by using the alternative energy generation of microbial fuel cells…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Access to energy remains a demanding issue for island and coastal inhabitants due to their remoteness, with an estimated 70% of Pacific islander households and 57% of sub-Saharan African res…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Given the anticipated scarcity of lithium, there is a potential risk of inadequate supply for future lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising alternatives to L…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project aims to maximize electricity production from wind energy, which is limited in cities due to space constraints. The prototype, with its green wall design, uses channelling winds…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With environmental disasters affecting poorer, disadvantaged communities in disproportionate amounts, solutions that are accessible (i.e. low-cost and abundant resources) are important for t…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity production is one of the greatest contributors to CO2 emissions, with its utilizations ranging from the heating of households to the charging of electronic devices. Piezoelectric…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As global reliance on fossil fuels exacerbates climate change, the search for a sustainable and clean energy storage solution has become increasingly critical. Most "clean energy solutions"…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Amidst rising energy prices, electricity use is being reduced in Germany. This necessitates shutting down streetlights, their operation being cost-inefficient for communities. The efficiency…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of insulating materials with a smaller carbon footprint. I hypothesized that sheep wool would be the most effective insulati…