ESRP Projects Archive - 2020

Educational Programs and Outreach has led the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) for over 10 years, and many bright and inventive high school teams have shared their in-depth scientific research with Argonne National Laboratory.

We have collected the abstracts of past teams’ research in this archive, so that you may look back at all the many discoveries that high school students have made here at the Lab. Every ESRP project makes a significant difference both for Argonne as a whole and in the STEM pathways of all students and faculty involved.

2020 ESRP Teams:

• Bolingbrook High School - Studies of Simple Metals by Inelastic X-ray Scattering Under Low Pressure
• Downers Grove South High School - Mechanism of the Removal of Lead (II) Ion from Water Using a Renewable Organic Resource
• Glenbard East High School - The Effect of Cocropping On Metal Sequestration in Brassica Juncea
• Glenbard South High School - Study of Iron Oxidation State Change of Spinach in the Human Body Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• Glenbrook South High School - Local Structure Analysis of Niobium-Based Battery Cathodes
• Hoffman Estates High School - Using X-Ray Diffraction to Catalog the Structures of Complex Crystals
• Lakes Community High School - Wear/Friction Studies of Steel vs. Steel Using Graphene as a Lubricant: Study of Lubricity Using Nanoscale Materials
• Lemont High School - Root Uptake of Arsenic in Common Plants and Vegetables
• Lincoln-Way East High School - Analyzing the Detoxification of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) and Mn(II) to Mn(III) Through Phytoremediation Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• Lockport Township High School - Synthesis of New Chromium Polyhydrides at High Temperatures and Pressures
• Maine South High School - Silver Nanoparticles: Correlation Between Structural and Antimicrobial Properties
• Metea Valley High School - Sulfur Single-Wavelength Anomalous Diffraction
• Naperville Central High School - Using Synchrotron X-Ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Analyze the Elemental Composition of a Sample at the Nanoscale: A Nanoscale Approach to a Common Practice
• Neuqua Valley High School - Heavy Metals in Lichen Samples
• Riverside Brookfield High School - EXAFS studies of LiNbO3Li-ion battery cathodes
• Romeoville High School - Niobium Anode in Lithium Ion Battery
• Tinley Park High School - Imaging Magnetic Nanoclusters at the Atomic Scale Using Synchrotron X-ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy