Hi guys! I want to ask for your help . I have a Physics project were I have to present an idea of "something" that doesnt exists and can help humanity and that it can actually be done, and Im blocked... it can be something that has to do with Chemistry, Physics, Biology, (and that kind of subjects) If have an idea please reply. PLEASE, I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF VERY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE OUT THERE.
Its supposed to be done in teams but everyone gathered with their friends and Im always the left over so I have to do it alone... Im worried its very important for my bimestral grade. Please help me, Im crying, really crying, please...

First of all don't worry, we are here to help. After all aren't we something that technically doesn't exist but we still do help each other XD okay now on your problem- if you want on the physics, I thought of the field of kinematics. If you prefer chemistry- I suggest something that has to do with changing the acidity of a substance. If Biology is what you want- try creating a theory about some particular ecosystems and what factors might enlarge the population of it and its effects on our lives. Good Luck.

Hey I'm guessing this is a classic science "project", now in science they always want you to kind of have an idea for the future, especially in papers they like to see what future goals are etc, though I guess this might be a little different. Anyway here are some ideas:

Chemistry = Find/make a new enzyme/synthetic enzyme/catalyst that allows you to increase efficiency in something for large scale production. I.E If you found an enzyme that could increase the production of ammonia via the Haber process, though they already use a catalyst but maybe you could find a better one, things like that. Or if you could find a biological enzyme that acts as a catalyst even better, since biological enzymes have VERY high efficiency rates, and need them too. Other chemistry could include raecemic mixtures and possiblity of converting one to either of a certain drug since enantiomers have different biological impacts. I.E common case being thalidomide where one enantiomer led to birth defects where the other enantiomer would be perfectly fine. Thus if you possibly found a way to fix something in a certain enantiomeric way by modifying the molecule or just purifying it.
By the way this is kind of important since basically half the drugs that people take are usually half-half of effective-non effective product that doesn't actually work.
Another example of importance is that in Vicks (the vapor stuff), the enantiomer of the active ingredient is in methamphetamine.

N.B enantiomer is basically a mirror image of a molecule, I.E if your face was a molecule, and you see it in a mirror, your face would be a an enantiomer of the molecule and your reflection would be the other enantiomer. The actual definition is basically a pair of molecules that are mirror images and non-superimposable or something along those lines.

Physics = Nuclear fusion anyone? You could also go with material design such as carbon nanofibres and metamaterials which are some classic/cliché examples. There are interesting materials like aerogel and stuff out there too, light semiconductors, 3d solar cells. Aside from the material you could also go into technology I.E ultrasound, MRI stuff, maybe you could find a way to increase the resolution of technology such as X-rays? Again with material you could possibly propose the idea of responsive fabrics, I.E things that respond to the environment.

Biology = You could go with the growing filed of bioinformatics and how that would help grow our knowledge of genomes and function of certain genes. <- could lead to a greater understanding of genetic disorders and thus increased possibilities of treatments. Other things include retroviral vectors for treatment of said genetic diseases, where you can infect cells with a virus (disabled and DNA/RNA) modified to restore wild type phenotypes into affected cells. Other advances include finding a way to stop the growing antibiotic resistance problem especially MRSA/VRSA. I have a few ideas for this though I think it's good if you do some reasearch and find out what information is there on the web so that you can actually write the report since mine are quite speculative.

Yeah some of my random ideas, hope it helps a little.

>>3 They just use chromatography these days to separate racemic mixtures although they tend to avoid creating them in the first place. The real issue now-a-days with racemates is controlling SN1 and SN2 reactions for secondary carbon centres (I think that's right?)?

Anyway how about biological objects? Say if a wall gets chipped or your phone cover gets scratched it'll just grow back again. It's an interesting idea more fantasy than reality but never-the-less it's fun to think about.

The most cliche idea I can think of is a 'green' sustainable power source. Not sure if you're a climate change believer, but it's a nice idea. I think I read somewhere that solar panels are like 10-30% efficient or something like that so perhaps finding a way to increase their efficiency could help.

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Interesting, I'm not a chemistry expert though I did a little in university. When I did it apparently drugs would have half L and R enantiomers.

Biological objects with regeneration, interesting, though it'd have to get its nutrients from somewhere it seems. I believe something more like responsive materials would be the current field, though in the future who knows, maybe we'll have biological houses etc.

That one is a real good one, green energy, it's what people want these days except as Io said efficency is low, in my post I think I wrote about 3d solar cells which increased efficency, you could try have a look at that too :d