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Novel Spinel Oxide Coatings on Stainless-Steel Mesh for Efficient Oil-Water Separation

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

The depletion of water resources and environmental hazards associated with aging oil wells, including the release of oil-contaminated water, present grave threats to marine ecosystems and hu…

One-step Synthesis of Amorphous ZnP2 Composite Anode Promoting the Fast-Charging Performance in Li-Ion Batteries

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…

On the Construction and Applications of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebra Weight Systems in the Theory of Vassiliev Invariants

Mathematics Fourth Award

We explore knots. If we allow self-intersections, we get Singular knots. To distinguish different knots, invariant functions are used. A function from the set of knots to a ring is called a…

Optimal Sparsification and Low-Rank Decomposition of Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies for Surgical Robot Task Automation

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Deep reinforcement learning(DRL) has shown significant promise in a wide range of applications including computer games and robotics. Yet, DRL policies require very long training times resul…

Optimizing Synthesis of mRNA Therapeutics

Chemistry Fourth Award

When Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman developed mRNA therapeutics, they packaged mRNA in 4-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to prevent bloodstream degradation by RNases. Research has sin…

Oral Delivery of Anticoagulant Dabigatran via a Mg-Micromotor Encapsulant Within a Gastric-Resistant Tablet for Ischemic Stroke Treatment

Translational Medical Science Fourth Award

A novel, targeted, therapeutic oral delivery system was designed as a blood-thinning treatment to prevent ischemic stroke, caused by blood clots. Dabigatran (Db), is an anticoagulant medicat…

Orthotic Hand Brace to Improve Range of Motion in Patients With Cerebral Palsy

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

People with spastic cerebral palsy sometimes develop contractures in the hands that cause the hand to close in on itself, reducing the range of motion (ROM). For children who use their hands…

PandaTyping: An Effortless Chinese Typing Methodology Directly Using English

Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award

Photovoltaic on Fleek! Power Optimization for Photovoltaic Systems Using Power Equalization

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Photovoltaic systems are becoming increasingly important. There is a central challenge to be solved here. Due to the series connection, the weakest cell always determines the total output. T…

Piezocatalysis with Optimized Turbulent Flow in Hydro Turbine for Eutrophication Remediation

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…

Precession, Nutation and Dynamic Trajectory of a Magnetic Rod in an Axisymmetric Magnetic Field

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

Precession and nutation in dynamical systems have been of long-standing research interest. Manifesting in systems as diverse as spinning tops to celestial bodies like planets, understanding…

Pro-Inflammatory Macrophages Induce Pyroptotic Death of ß-Cells: Modeling Macrophage-Mediated Pancreatic Endocrine ß-Cell Damage Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Vascularized Macrophage-Islet Organoids

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Loss of functional pancreatic ß-cell mass is key to both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes. Islet macrophages have importa…

Pura Aerem: Computational Analysis and Prototype Optimization of a Novel Multi-stage Extension Designed To Reduce PM10, CO2, CO Exiting TWC-OC Catalytic Converters

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

Ambient air pollution presents a 7 million annual mortality rate and devastating environmental impacts, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology used…

PuraFlo: Centrifugation-Based Water Filtration System to Reduce Turbidity in Water Treatment and Ecosystems

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Sediment pollution, a type of water pollution, degrades drinking water quality, disrupts ecosystems, and increases environmental risks. Anthropogenic causes comprise 70% of sediment pollutio…

Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Changes in the Western Equatorial Pacific Thermocline and Analyzing the Viability of Coarse Fraction as a Temperature Proxy

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

The Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) is a crucial component of global climate and has direct influence in the modulation of heat throughout the global ocean. Changes in geochemistry in the v…

Remote Detection and Severity Classification of Parkinson's Disease Using Markerless Videos in Uncontrolled Settings

Systems Software Fourth Award

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Yet, it lacks a cure. Timely detection and treatment can significantly slow the progression of symptoms, yet acc…

Removal of Microplastics by Waste Plastics Based on Fenton-like Reaction: Waste Treat Waste

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Microplastics have become one of the new pollutants which have aroused international concern, and they even pose a potential threat to human health. In this project, a classical Fenton-like…

Rhythms and Blues: Examining Potential Health Hazards of Blue Light-induced Circadian Disruption in Drosophila melanogaster

Animal Sciences Fourth Award

Purpose: Disrupted circadian rhythms can have deleterious consequences for all organisms. The extent to which blue light from digital devices affects circadian biology and mental and physica…

Rising Temperature, Falling Immunity: Plant Stomatal Defense Relies on Heat Sensitive Protease

Plant Sciences Fourth Award

Global warming poses a significant threat to plants by weakening their defense, exacerbating disease outbreaks and threatening global food security. However, limited attention is given to th…

SAAR: Surgical Aid for Anatomical Reconstructions Using Projector-Based Augmented Reality and Computer Vision Systems

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Accurate visualization of underlying anatomical structures is vital for precise surgical interventions, particularly in high-risk and minimally invasive procedures. Existing methods like flu…

SCOMAE: Diagnosing Tuberculosis From Cough Acoustics Using Supervised COntrastive Masked AutoEncoders

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide, disproportionately affects lower-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). When diagnosed early, TB is very curable, but…

Sensor-Assisted, Noninvasive Monitoring for Operational, Investigative and Predictive Hive Health Management for Honeybee Colonies – Sustainable Bee Keeping

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Motivated to create an early warning system to predict Colony Collapse Disorder, our research focuses on developing a technological solution to constantly monitor beehive health. We present…

SignalGrab: A Machine Learning Approach to Helping Color Blind Drivers

Systems Software Fourth Award

There are nearly fourteen million individuals with color blindness in the United States. Many individuals with color blindness struggle with differentiating between red and green traffic sig…

Silhouettes of Sound (Visualizing Animal Vocalizations for Species Identification)

Animal Sciences Fourth Award

Marine mammals, such as cetaceans, rely significantly on sounds as their primary means of communication and perception of their environment. Acoustic signals are crucial for various social i…

SkyCatcher: An Annular-Structured UAV for Enhanced Grasping and Delivery Solutions

Embedded Systems Fourth Award

This paper introduces "SkyCatcher," a novel annular-shaped retractable quadrotor UAV specialized for cargo transportation. Unlike other morphing quadrotors with complex platforms and challen…

SkyLinker: UAV Autonomous Perpetual Solar Flight for Facilitation of Mobile Communication and Long-Distance Surveillance

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award

Expanding the applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) requires overcoming limitations in flight endurance imposed by current battery energy densities and adverse weather conditions l…

sPET: Miniature Enzyme From Metagenomic Mining for the Hydrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays a pivotal role in modern packaging and textile industries, contributing to over 350 million tons of global production annually. Despite its widespread…

Syncardia: AI at the Heart of Early Cardiovascular Disease Detection

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

In the contemporary landscape of medical technology, the integration of machine learning (ML) with wearable electrocardiograms (ECGs) presents a groundbreaking approach to cardiovascular dis…

Synthesis and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Biopolymer Encapsulant for Lead Sequestration in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Chemistry Fourth Award

In recent years, single-junction perovskite solar cells with lead-halide frameworks have garnered considerable interest for their superior photovoltaic performance, facile fabrication, and t…

Tactron: A Low-Cost Refreshable Tactile Graphics Display

Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award

One of the greatest challenges for blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) is in learning STEM subjects. Many key concepts, like graphs and molecules, are hard to comprehend without t…