ESRP Projects Archive - 2022

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.

2022 ESRP Teams:

• Bolingbrook High School - Study of the Electronic Properties of Conductor, Insulator, and High-Temperature Superconductor Using Valence Electron Excitation
• Downers Grove South High School - Determining the Distribution of Titanium Dioxide Particles within a Hydrogel Matrix
• Glenbrook South High School - Cycling Effects on Battery Anode Structure for a High Entropy Oxide
• Hoffman Estates High School - Determining the Structure of Silver-Coated Gold Nanoparticles Using Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS)
• Lakes Community High School - Exploring Fundamental Chiral Molecular Self-assembly: Proline on Cu(111) Surfaces
• Lemont High School - Root Uptake of Cobalt in Common Plants and Vegetables
• Lincoln-Way East High School - Exploring the Efficacy of Iron Doping in Gallium (III) Oxide as an Anode in Conversion-Type Rechargeable Batteries
• Lockport Township High School - Influence of X-ray Energies on Radiation Damage Using Lysozyme as a Tool
• Lyons Township High School - Attempted Crystallization of Gallus Gallus Domesticus Riboflavin Binding Protein and the Collection of Diffraction Data from Lysozyme Protein
• Maine South High School - The Study of Performance of a High Entropy Material for Anodes in Lithium Batteries
• Metea Valley High School - Sarcomere Structure and Porcine Myocardium
• Mundelein High School - Using X-ray Fluorescence Imaging to Analyze Metal Concentrations in Airborne Particulate Matter Collected in our Local Environment
• Naperville Central High School - Studying Next Generation Solar Cells - Solving the World’s Energy Crisis Part 2
• Neuqua Valley High School - Absorption Analysis of Cadmium, Zinc and Chromium in Lichen Samples
• Oak Lawn Community High School - Effects of KCl Additive on Chlorophyll Concentration and Plant Structure
• Romeoville High School - Study of the Adsorption of Co₂ by Carbon Filters
• Tinley Park High School / Oak Forest High School - Imaging Perovskite Materials At The Atomic Scale Using Synchrotron X-ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• University of Chicago (UChicago) Lab High School - Using Particulates on Honeybees as a Measure of Local Air Pollution
• Whitney Young Magnet High School - High-Entropy Oxides with Lithium Batteries