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 · 2023
Materials Science
Following surgery, dogs experience irritation on the skin around the surgical site due to pain, histamines, and the protein IL-31. These factors cause dogs to lick or scratch at their suture…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Many synthetic whitening products brought side effects while achieving whitening effect. In this work, we performed toxicity and whitening screening using cells and zebrafish embryos, and al…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Liposome is a spherical lipid-based nanoparticle comprised of a phospholipid bilayer and an inner aqueous core. Liposomes create an environment ideal for encapsulating cytostatics, which bri…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Wood is a common building material due to its wide availability, light-weight properties, and strength under stable conditions. However, a major susceptibility is in its inability to withsta…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
World hunger is a growing issue and affects up to 820 million people globally. Although there are increasing efforts to increase sustainability, approximately ? of food produced globally is…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
As climate change poses a bigger threat to the world, more and more consumers are looking to change their buying habits to become more sustainable. One industry experiencing this change firs…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Inducing bacteria into cement concrete can increase concrete durability and therefore its lifespan by preventing microcrack formation from the absorption of water. Bacteria have cell walls w…
CSEF · 2023
Materials Science Third Award
Our research aims to create an eco- and cost-friendly alternative to cow leather and polyurethane leather, the most common synthetic leather. We chose this research as we are passionate abou…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
This research project aims to develop and test the efficacy of a chitin-based bioplastic. The goal is to create a biodegradable and temperature-insulating material that will replace the curr…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
The United Nations deems clean water a human right. Even so, the World Health Organization reports that over 2 billion people worldwide still do not have access to clean running water. Low-i…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
This investigation focuses on varied surface preparation methods of titanium substrates for optimised structural adhesive bonding. In aircrafts, adhesives must provide sufficient support in…
CSEF · 2023
Materials Science Honorable_mention Award
The purpose of this experiment was to find the optimal enclosure size for a woofer driver. My experimental question was “What effect does speaker enclosure size have on bass frequency respon…
CSEF · 2023
Materials Science Honorable_mention Award
The purpose of this project was to find the strongest and most durable 3D printed infill (inner support structure) when put through a compression test. I hypothesized that a 3D structure wit…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Football is one of the most popular American sports, and some of the most exciting beginnings of this sport are in high school. Concussions are unfortunately a prominent consequence of the s…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Cholesterol crystallization within membrane environments involves a complicated interplay of cholesterol molecules with adjacent phospholipids, cholesterol molecules, and surrounding water l…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
My project looks to improve firefighter safety by studying the performance characteristics of firefighter protective clothing called turnout gear that has reached the end of its mandated lif…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
In 2005, SpaceX first referred to a concept with some of the Starship's capabilities. In 2016, Elon Musk announced the Starship is going to be made out of carbon based composite material. In…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Wind turbines, which are one of the main elements of sustainable energy sources, are not produced in a sustainable way. The production of materials used as reinforcement material in the wind…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Currently, materials of piezoelectric devices mainly used have several disadvantages that they are partially toxic, inappropriate for the human body, difficult to manufacture, or expensive.…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Over 50% of the chronic infections in hospital settings are linked to biofilm formations, placing wounded individuals at high risk for medical complications. Due to the increase in antibioti…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The plastics that we are using nowadays, especially disposable plastics, are mainly recycled from used plastic products. Some chemicals present in these used plastic products can contaminate…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The state of Rio Grande do Sul is responsible for 90% of juices and wine production in Brazil and its processing generates up to 30% of waste. Therefore, the goal of this research was to opt…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Developing active, low-cost, and stable catalysts is a key challenge for efficient hydrogen production. Copper oxide is one of the most effective photocatalysts for water splitting. However,…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Over the past decade, climate change has become an increasing problem with one of the major contributing factors being carbon dioxide (CO2) emission—almost 51% of total US carbon emissions a…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The global water crisis has gotten worse while freshwater sources around the world are being reduced and the quality of the water is in a constant decline. Surface water pollution is caused…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Concrete is the most used material in the world second only to water. This project was to create a concrete material that can be used to build business, residential, and infrastructural site…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The objective was developing a biosorbent of heavy metals by upcycling Oreochromis niloticus fish scale waste (FSW) to mitigate the toxic, synergistic interactions of heavy metals and microp…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Supercapacitors are gaining importance in energy storage applications due to their portability, long cycle lifetime, high energy density, and power density. The purpose of this project is to…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Solar sails are most effective closer to the sun, where propulsion is aided by high photon density. As solar sails need to be large and light to utilize the very slight pressure of the photo…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
This study explores the intersection between unsupervised machine learning with bio-inspired material design. The goal of this project was to design a new procedure to simply and intuitively…