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ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Third Award
Conventional functionalization techniques for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) compromise the simultaneous optimization of structural integrity, CO2 absorption, and catalytic selectivity, dim…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Second Award
The growing global energy demand and environmental concerns have highlighted green hydrogen as a promising solution due to its potential for clean energy production. Pursuing the exploration…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry First Award
Post-Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) aims to mitigate rising greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering CO2 from flue gas streams. Currently, PCC utilizes liquid amine solvents, such as monoet…
ISEF · 2024
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…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which pathological Amyloid-Beta plaques of 40 amino acids (AB40) aggregate as insoluble fibrils around cells in the neocortex. It is the…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Natural products offer great promise as pharmaceuticals due to evolutionary optimization not seen in their synthetic counterparts, and because they exist beyond the reaches of most synthetic…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
MDM2 amplification occurs in approximately 40 to 60% of human sarcomas such as liposarcoma. MDM2 protein, an E3 ubiquitin-ligase, negatively regulates p53, a tumor suppressor inactivated in…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
This research was a two-part experiment to discover new antibiotics. The first part was reacting erythromycin with morpholine and propyl amine to see if a reaction occurred. Erythromycin and…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, has been identified as a potential cancer therapeutic due to its abundance, specificity to cancer cells, and low toxicity. In high doses, it has the capacity to…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the gender discrepancy in Alzheimer's disease (AD), in which females are two-thirds more likely to be diagnosed with the disease than men. This was…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
This project investigated the extent to which fertilizer alters the pH and dissolved oxygen levels of freshwater. For pH testing, I used a Wide Range pH Indicator solution with 10mL of sampl…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
The project aims to explore the use of plant corrosion inhibitors compared to toxic bike chain lubricants on carbon steel bike chains. Current bike maintenance companies use petroleum and to…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Gas sensing is vital for human health, industrial safety, and adherence to air quality standards (Tonezzer & Van Duy, 2023). Metal phthalocyanines (MPc’s) are promising gas sensing candidate…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Over 50 million people are diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases worldwide, however the fundamental molecular mechanisms for the development of these diseases are not well-researched. Un…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
With single-use plastic accumulating and damaging the environment, new and sustainable solutions must be found. One way to do so is using chitosan, found in shrimp shells, and glycerol, a co…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
The hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayer, sharing the same crystalline structure and isoelectronic properties with graphene, is well-recognized for its wide band gap semiconductor nature…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Is chitin resistant to Gamma radiation? On the span of years, there had been many problems regarding radiation from pregnant women incapable of entering radiation rooms to nuclear weapons. T…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Third Award
Oil spills constitute a serious threat to both the economy and the environment, disturbing the ecosystem. According to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF) in…