This event is the UALR Expo event,
basically for undergraduates
to represent their research on every
type of field: social science, chemistry,
biology, to present their data and
whether they found any new discoveries.
These crystal structures are fayalite,
it's what the mantle of the earth is
made of, its what the mantle of every
rocky planet most likely is made of.
We find it in asteroids everywhere. The
original purpose of the research was to
use this fayalite to trap in carbon
from the cycle, remove it from the
atmosphere and slow down global climate change.
Our end goal is the tube
structures that we see. We've gotten some
good tubes out of it. We've gotten a lot
of these little clusters, we have no idea
what they are. Research is ongoing, our
next steps are to investigate to figure
out what's going on at each individual
stages synthesis.
So I'm looking at two subjects with Autism
Spectrum Disorder, ASD. I have a
twelve-year-old participant and a 15 year old participant.
I'm basically looking
at the social skills. So basically I
looked at pre and post videos of these
subjects and I administered and scored these
tests. There's a small little pebble that
they place behind the child ear to kind
of help see if it keeps them calm and
simulated while being assessed and it's
amazing to see the pre-test versus the
post-test, while in the pre-test the child is
rocking or finger tapping versus the
post where they're just calm.
So what I'm presenting today is my research into
garnets found a Crater of Diamonds
State Park, and the point of this
research was to look into the garnets
and see whether or not they were all the
same chemically or whether or not there
were variations within the formation as a whole.
What we found was that each of the
garnets themselves have the same
chemical formula across the entire
crystal, but the garnets, the different
crystals have different chemical formulas
showing that there were multiple
events leading to the formation of this
Crater of Diamonds park.
My research is about using
graphene supported Tin(II) the oxide nanoparticles.
So in my case I tried to use a
method that is not very commonly used
Tin(II). So with that method I combine that
with graphene. From what I've noticed is
that I can use the Tin(II) and graphene
together to produce oxygen. Nowadays
in the environment we have a lot of
carbon dioxide. Even like for example the
astronauts in NASA, when they go in space
they have a lot of carbon dioxide
in their cell. We can use oxygen and
produce oxygen for them using this kind
of method which is very low and
cost-effective. Water is being polluted
and it contains heavy metals and
some inorganic compounds, so we use here
wood shavings. We treat with
some waste water and make it
usable, like drinkable.
I think in the future this can be very good
material and very economically
viable and eco-friendly so this product
can be very helpful for future.
It was definitely very interesting to take on
research I had never done anything of
this caliber before and I learned a
lot of unique skills which I hope will
apply later on and just generally how best
to go about doing research. So what I
hope is that using a material like Tin(II) which is
cheap will be more efficient, you can buy
Tin(II) very cheap and use that to produce oxygen
instead of using nickel, iron, or cobalt. It's
just been a lot of fun I've been very
interested in what we're going to get
and I've learned a lot more about
chemistry that I didn't know
before. I actually didn't know a lot about
ASD but during this research, during
my McNair paper, looking at all of the
articles, the lit reviews, I have learned a
