Meghana Chowdary Bollimpalli of Little Rock Central High
School was named a grand prize winner in the Intel International Science and
Engineering fair.
She won the Young Scientist Award and $50,000, plus $1,000
for her school.
Meghana Bollimpalli, 17, of Little Rock, Arkansas, received
one of two Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards of $50,000 for her novel,
low-cost approach for synthesizing materials that could greatly cut the
production and energy costs of making electrodes for devices like super
capacitors. She found that combining common substances like tea and molasses
with nitrogen and phosphorus in a commercial microwave formed a powder that
could be used as a coating for electrode-like materials giving them similar
properties of more expensive metals like platinum.
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