AJAS · 2026
Maillard Maker
Chemistry (inferred)
Food development is an important and persistent part of the modern world, and finding optimal methods of creating food products is necessary as the world's population increases. The Maillard…
AJAS Chemistry projects
Browse 20 real Chemistry projects from AJAS, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
AJAS · 2025
Computational Chemistry Study: Analyzing the Most Stable Conformations of Linalool
Chemistry (inferred)
Linalool is a fragrant monoterpene alcohol present in essential oils like lavender and basil. It exhibits significant biological properties, including antibacterial and sterilization charact…
AJAS · 2025
Developing a Novel Fluorescent Sensor for Detecting Analytes in an Aqueous Medium
Chemistry (inferred)
Fluorescent sensors are organic fluorophores that detect specific analytes with quantitative fluorescence intensity changes. They have offered impressive benefits compared with instrumental…
AJAS · 2025
Fresco Painting: When Chemistry Meets Art
Chemistry (inferred)
Fresco is an ancient art technique that involves applying water-based paints to wet lime plaster. The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted in fresco by Michelangelo over 500 years ago, continues…
AJAS · 2025
Peak Performance
Chemistry (inferred)
In this project I tested to see if changing the pH of proteins could affect their ability and efficiency in the foaming process and making of meringues. I whipped egg whites and aquafaba wit…
AJAS · 2022
A drug, ergothioneine, may be an exciting potential treatment to Alzheimer's disease.
Biochemistry
EGT Reduces A-Beta Injury by Attenuating Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress in silico β-Amyloid is a distinguishing feature of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD). Previous research ha…
AJAS · 2022
Canola can be used to make biofuel and titanium dioxide works as a pretreatment to get the canola re
Biochemistry
Theoretical calculations suggest that a 1000-acre canola field is able to produce 5,000 L of biofuel. However, pretreatment of canola stalks is necessary for biofuel production to allow enzy…
AJAS · 2022
Charcoal created from high-density wood burns longer, hotter, and releases more total energy.
Chemistry
What wood makes the best charcoal? Charcoal is wood burned in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. In a previous experiment, entitled “What Wood Makes the Best Charcoal,” the s…
AJAS · 2022
Computational Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants’ Binding with Vertebrate ACE2
Biochemistry
Mentors: Alyson Michael, and Dr. Peter Faletra, Ph.D. This study explored the effect of changes in the spike protein of the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma variants of SARS-CoV-2 on the initial bindi…
AJAS · 2022
De novo design of single domain antibodies against CD24, a tumor-associated glycoprotein
Biochemistry
Used a computer to design miniature antibodies that can bind to a cancer-associated "don't eat me" signal protein. A single-domain antibody (nanobody) predicted to have high geometric comple…
AJAS · 2022
How Remdesivir and Molnupiravir Interact with MERS-CoV
Biochemistry
With the worldwide attention that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has received over the past year, renewed attention has been focused on the related illness, Middle East Respiratory Synd…
AJAS · 2022
HPLC Analysis of Cannabinoid Content in Commercial Cannabidiol Oils
Chemistry
Cannabidiol oil (CBD oil) is a widely popularized herbal remedy used in anxiety treatments and FDA approved as an epilepsy medication for rare conditions. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a canna…
AJAS · 2022
Inhibiting Fungi Growth with Copper-based Solutions
Chemistry
Fungi based microbial plant diseases are among the major causes of agricultural crop loss on a global scale, which threatens the worldwide goal of producing sufficient food to feed the growi…
AJAS · 2022
In Silico Comparison of Human ACE2 Interactions with SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
Biochemistry
As the current pandemic continues on, it is important to understand how different variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) bind onto a human cell to gain entry. My researc…
AJAS · 2022
SARS-CoV-2 and DC-SIGN: The Overlooked Path
Biochemistry
Since its appearance in 2019, multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies variants based on their levels of potential harm. Variants of Conce…
AJAS · 2022
Secretions of Electrically Stimulated Stem Cells Promote Neuron Growth
Biochemistry
Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) are compelling prospects in neural regeneration because of neurogenesis related growth factors they produce, leading to the possibility of being a paracrine…
AJAS · 2022
Unravelling the Structure of SecA
Biochemistry
SecA and the integral membrane proteins SecYEG control almost all protein secretion across the bacterial membrane. A functional copy of SecA is essential for the survival of E. coli. Underst…
AJAS · 2019
The Flammability of Cotton Balls After the Application of Various Substances
Chemistry (inferred)
Cotton balls were tested after being exposed to different substances. Combustion is when compounds combine with oxygen and produce heat. There are two types of combustion, complete and incom…
AJAS · 2018
Alternative Catalyst for the Synthesis of Aspirin
Chemistry (inferred)
Abstract The overall objective of this project was to find if microwaves would be a suitable and sustainable catalytic replacement for the synthesis of Aspirin. This was done by creating thr…
AJAS · 2018
Synthesis of Boron-Based Natural Products as Anti-Cancer Agents
Chemistry (inferred)
The overarching goal of this project is to synthesize effective, multicomponent anti-cancer compounds by coupling derivatives of boron and natural products. Benzoboroxoles, (cyclic boronic a…