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By talking about your design work on this page, there is one medal criterion that you can attempt to meet, and one award that you can apply for. If your team is going for a gold medal by building a functional prototype, you should tell us what you did on this page.
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The great advantage of our project is the simple fabrication method, which works at room temperature, without utilizing complex machines, instruments or toxic chemicals. The basic ingredients ZnO and TiO2 nanoparticles, are included in tooth paste and sun screen. Tea can be used as a dye to absorb visible light and transfer electrons to the nanoclusters. The nanoclusters are fabricated by adding the initial salts to biofilm which results in a semiconducting layer. In contrast to our environmentally friendly solar cell, the production of commercially available solar cells requires much more resources and energy. Furthermore, their fabrication yields toxic byproducts, which can be circumvented by our methods. No one can resist the beautiful colors of dye sensitized solar cells.</p>
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<p>This is a prize for the team that has developed a synthetic biology product to solve a real world problem in the most elegant way. The students will have considered how well the product addresses the problem versus other potential solutions, how the product integrates or disrupts other products and processes, and how its lifecycle can more broadly impact our lives and environments in positive and negative ways.</p>
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If you are working on art and design as your main project, please join the art and design track. If you are integrating art and design into the core of your main project, please apply for the award by completing this page.
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<p>Teams who want to focus on art and design should be in the art and design special track. If you want to have a sub-project in this area, you should compete for this award.</p>
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Latest revision as of 17:00, 14 October 2016

The great advantage of our project is the simple fabrication method, which works at room temperature, without utilizing complex machines, instruments or toxic chemicals. The basic ingredients ZnO and TiO2 nanoparticles, are included in tooth paste and sun screen. Tea can be used as a dye to absorb visible light and transfer electrons to the nanoclusters. The nanoclusters are fabricated by adding the initial salts to biofilm which results in a semiconducting layer. In contrast to our environmentally friendly solar cell, the production of commercially available solar cells requires much more resources and energy. Furthermore, their fabrication yields toxic byproducts, which can be circumvented by our methods. No one can resist the beautiful colors of dye sensitized solar cells.