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ISEF · 2017
Materials Science First Award
Nanoporous graphene membranes have the potential to solve the problem of a dwindling supply of fresh water that affects nearly half the world’s population by enabling low cost, efficient des…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat patients with infectious diseases. As these drugs have been used widely for long time, the organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
Multilayered nanoparticles are promising carriers to deliver therapeutic biomolecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries. Capabl…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
To detect biomarkers, diagnostic devices must obtain small enough feature sizes to manipulate biomolecules that are just a few nanometers in size. Electrodes separated by a nanometric gap ha…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project was conducted in order to find a recycled/reused material suitable to be a residential insulator. This study is important because it addresses environmental damages as a result…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
A nuanced and advantageous polysaccharide derived from red algae, agarose has myriad benefits, including its enormous bioavailability, its organic composure and its water solubility. When di…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Worldwide consumption of hen eggs is quite high, hence giving the eggshell as a large amount of discarded waste. The utilization of waste may bring this eggshell into high-added value since…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to formulate highly stable metal-organic ink for application in the printable electronics industry. The production of metallic inks with metal-organic complexes…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The primary objective of this science fair project was to develop a novel membrane configuration capable of efficiently and rapidly separating oxygen and carbon dioxide from ambient gases or…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
An estimated $35 billion of energy is lost annually through windows with 45% of the average American household energy bill spent on heating and cooling. Recent developments in materials scie…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Does the temperature of water when mixed with cement affect the strength of the concrete? If cement is mixed with hot water, warm water, or cold water, then the concrete mixed with warm wate…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
With thousands of people dying daily in car accidents, and almost half occurring at night, the lack of roadway visibility needs to be addressed. Strontium aluminate is a nontoxic compound th…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project includes the utilization of electro pulsing to optimize the production of ceramic filters, specifically Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Polycrystalline Zirconia (3Y-TZP). Due to th…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) possess significant potential in water transport applications, demonstrating greater water flux over that of carbon nanotubes and contemporary reverse osmosis…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Currently, the search for lower costs cause companies to adopt new processing techniques, concerned with the recovery of their waste or with the attempt to use waste from other processes as…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Can you imagine a world in which all we need to quickly create complex structures is an LED lamp and a short set of parameters to follow? This study focused on the creation of micro-scale st…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to create a better body armor by testing different woven patterns. Body armor plays a huge factor in the vitality rate of the military. As weapons are becoming…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Bagasse is the solid material by product after sugar cane trees are processed. The problem was: Is it possible to use bagasse as an economic and ecological material that is a sustainable alt…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Flowable light curable acrylic resins with adequate initiator have been used in DLP or SLA based 3D printer to print 3D objects. Light curable acrylic resins with a bulky urea group will und…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
The purpose of this study was to create a space radiation shielding fabric that was thin, lightweight, and flexible. Polyethylene (PE) and boron nitride (BN) were the materials used to creat…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Popularity in climacteric fruits consumption both within the country and as exporting produce has brought our interest in carrying out this research. The objective of this work is to develop…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This study aims to research the possibility of using sago starch to make pure degradable bio-plastic without adding any other plastic, resin or rubber available in the market. The goal of th…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
This research project is a study into measures to reduce the transmission of bacteria from person-to-person. This has become an important policy goal due to the rise in bacteria that are res…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
OBJECTIVE: To engineer a high heat conduction thermal evacuation suit that also addresses superheated gas. Suit will allow a person to escape a fire of 980°C & convection heat of 32kph for 5…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Research main objective was to create a new alternative packing material based on banana, cassava and yam starch, in order to reduce the environmental implications produced by today’s plasti…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Automobile exhaust accounts for about one-third of the total amount of air pollutants in cities, which is the main reason for the formation of haze and acid rain. Therefore, the research wor…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to find the percentage weight loss of limestone, hard coral, and mushroom coral when in carbonic acid and mushroom coral in hydrochloric acid. Carbonic and hyd…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
The well-known Jensen inequality: f(x_1 )+f(x_2 )+...+f(x_n)=nf(x_0),where l(x_1 )+l(x_2 )+...+l(x_n)=nl(x_0), holds true if f is convex functions and l(x)=x. However, we found that it is po…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a growing problem worldwide and has no treatment. Tau protein misfolding is linked to AD. Tau is an intrinsically disordered protein, hence natively unfolded in s…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project exemplifies a form of bioremediation; Mycoremediation study designed to alleviate eutrophication from dissolved phosphorus and nitrogen contamination in agricultural watersheds.…