Plan your science project and present your results

Dr. Christoph Sontag Inorganic Chemistry

UP 2014

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(1) Find your topic

What are the needs and opportunities in your field ?

to improve health ?

to make a new test method ?

to simplify common methods ?

to reduce pollution ?

How can I use the resources I have now ?

to solve a personal problem ? 2

Check key words …. Full articles at: freefullpdf.com

Example: “Curcumin” Is a popular natural food additive and easy available

Claimed to be anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer

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Important criteria

Product (or model of it) is affordable and available

Simple analytical methods exist

Test methods to show product actions

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Often one information leads to another ….

Other chemicals are related … 5

(2) Describe your goal

“The goal of science is not to accumulate knowledge but to use science for the benefit of society”

Example: “Use of Curcumin in patients to reduce blood pressure”

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(3) Plan your experiments

your chemicals equipment

analytical methods

Test kit

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(4) Learn from mistakes

Mistakes are not bad – if we can learn from them

Record also what did NOT go well …..

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(5) Report and Present

Describe exactly what you did – so anybody can reproduce it

Explain why you did your experiments

Describe the outcome, even it was not successful

Conclude about further studies

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All together ….

1. Find your topic – that interests you

2. Describe your goal

3. Plan your experiments – check all resources

4. Learn from mistakes

5. Report and Present

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Advice for Presentations

1. Less text (make it BIG) more pictures

2. No tables, use graphs

3. Concentrate on the key points (not details)

4. Eye contact to the audience max. 1 slide per min

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Examples

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Synthetic dyes are used in paper and pulp manufacturing, printing and textile industries.

Synthetic dyes are used in • paper and pulp manufacturing • printing • textile industries

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In a three necked 100ml capacity round bottom flask, 10ml of 1mM silver nitrate solution was added through one neck and into the other 5ml of 1.5% by weight aqueous solution of chitosan was added with continous stirring.

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