Using MOFS to Detect Toxins
School Name
South Carolina Governor's School for Science & Mathematics
Grade Level
12th Grade
Presentation Topic
Chemistry
Presentation Type
Mentored
Abstract
In recent years, the world has started to realize that the way we're living isn't sustainable. Naturally the demand and need for clean and renewable energy has rapidly increased. The end goal of this research is to solve this problem and more by constructing materials that are capable of creating green energy, detect and capture pollutants and toxins, deliver medicine to our bodies more effectively and transport electron charges in molecular electronic devices. As ambitious as this sounds, my research group play to do this and more by applying a multipronged approach to research, splitting the larger group into teams to solve each of these problems. So far, we have constructed dye-sensitized solar cells by using electron dyads that use light energy and turns it into electricity, we have defined multiple modes of electronic interactions between π-acidic receptors and anions. These, as well as other advances we have made could not only help earth and the people living on it, but it could also serve as a catalyst for future advances in a rapidly advancing field of science. Hopefully helping fellow scientist get close to reaching our goal of a clean and energy efficient world.
Recommended Citation
Festa, Patrick, "Using MOFS to Detect Toxins" (2020). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 97.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2020/all/97
Location
Furman Hall 108
Start Date
3-28-2020 11:00 AM
Presentation Format
Oral Only
Group Project
No
Using MOFS to Detect Toxins
Furman Hall 108
In recent years, the world has started to realize that the way we're living isn't sustainable. Naturally the demand and need for clean and renewable energy has rapidly increased. The end goal of this research is to solve this problem and more by constructing materials that are capable of creating green energy, detect and capture pollutants and toxins, deliver medicine to our bodies more effectively and transport electron charges in molecular electronic devices. As ambitious as this sounds, my research group play to do this and more by applying a multipronged approach to research, splitting the larger group into teams to solve each of these problems. So far, we have constructed dye-sensitized solar cells by using electron dyads that use light energy and turns it into electricity, we have defined multiple modes of electronic interactions between π-acidic receptors and anions. These, as well as other advances we have made could not only help earth and the people living on it, but it could also serve as a catalyst for future advances in a rapidly advancing field of science. Hopefully helping fellow scientist get close to reaching our goal of a clean and energy efficient world.
