38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Combining plasma and cataluminescence, with MgO nanomaterials prepared by sol-gel method as the sensing element, we have developed a low temperature plasma-assisted cataluminescence sensor f…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Ever since it’s discovery in 1975, Lyme Disease has been an issue especially in North America and effects both children and adults. In 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CD…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Solar power is the leading way to address the problem of global warming and pollution from the use of fossil fuels. This project studies the impact energy production of the…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Drug delivery systems such as hydrogels and nanoparticles pose substantial limitations including premature leakage and toxicity risks regarding inhalation, respectively. Liposomes, which are…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The study began with an interesting phenomenon in scientific activity. The past research had shown the coloration of starch and iodine is a joint result of iodide ion and water. It is diffic…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
More than 60% of yearly deaths are caused by chronic and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Overexpressed free radicals are the precursors and pr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
This project fulfills future demands and need for sustainable, cheap resources. We have discovered that macroalgae, an underutilized resource, can be fermented and used for animal feed, fert…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Objective: There are currently not many efficient methods for enrichment of phosphorylated proteins in complex biological samples. However, phosphoproteins play a significant role in several…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study was to design a novel, effective, and highly efficient immobilized ionic liquid CYPHOS® IL 104 (IL) approach towards removal of heavy metal(s) from an aq…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Over the past few decades nanotechnology has developed rapidly. Compared with bulk materials, novel nanomaterials size-dependant physico-chemical properties (e.g., higher specific surface ar…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Antioxidants, touted as beneficial for your health, potentially preventing degenerative, neurological and cardiovascular diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s, are found in the highest concen…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using photoelectron imaging, O–, O2–, O(CO2)–, O(CO2)2–, 63Cu–, and 65Cu– were probed to gain information about their internal electronic structures. This information may become useful in an…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In this experiment, the chemicals bacteria emit were collected with a solid-phase microextraction fiber (SPME). These chemicals were then identified on the Gas Chromatography Mass Spectromet…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Mandor River water as the main water source in West Kalimantan is not feasible to be used because it has been contaminated by Hg2+ (0.0095 ppm) from gold mining activities and Fe3+ (2.722 pp…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to determine if prior browning (cooking) of pork and beef meat cuts increased palatability as compared to browning post sous vide cooking methods. Trained pa…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Molecular rotors are compounds, which molecules include two or more fragments that can rotate to each other. As a result of the energy absorption molecules form excited states, which could t…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Purpose Using cuticle of plants, we can make a natural brightener which can inhibit the fungus, good and excellent in waterproof and suppress the corrosion of the metal. Result Study 1: Glos…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to find out which can run a fan for the most amount of time, hydrogen and oxygen that is stored in a small reservoir, versus hydrogen and oxygen…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
This project in its present form is the result of electrochemical production, analysis with new optical methods and application of aluminumoxide for a new electroluminescent device. The init…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective of my project was to try see if you could charge a smartphone using its own heat that it emits. My hypothesis was: If I can capture enough heat from a smartphon…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solid oxide fuel cells require pure electronic conductors with composite designs and high operating temperatures. In this respect, mixed ionic electronic conductors are desirable due to thei…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my project was to determine if it is possible to detect heavy metals in coconut water, when the coconut plant grows on contaminated soil. Since coconut plants take a long time…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
This is a continuation project (Year 3). Two types of simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensors were created with functionalized gold nanoparticles (~1.6 nm core diameter) for…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Providing sustainable energy globally is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Health and climate risks associated with combustion of fossil fuels threaten global stability, de…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With increasing energy demand and increasing strain on the world’s resources, including supplies of fossil fuels and agricultural capacity, sustainable renewable energy is needed. Using disc…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of project was to synthesize iron and iron oxide nanoparticles(NP), stabilize them by crown ethers and study catalytical properties.Diazacrown ether was used as stabilizer due to its…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see how the voltage output of a solar cell is affected by different temperatures. Methods/Materials Materials: solar cell, multimeter,…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Biosensors are becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s society with applications in health diagnostics, bio warfare detection, water quality monitoring, and food safety. Currently in heal…