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ISEF · 2018
Chemistry First Award
We heavily depend on petroleum for energy production, petroleum-based polymer synthesis and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. More than 95% of the energy in the United State…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Plastics have been a vital asset for humanity but their harmful effects have not been resolved. This project is about a greener solution. Since the petroleum based plastics cannot bio-degrad…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Plant Microbial fuel cells have the potential as a sustainable, renewable energy source using Florida’s wetlands and indigenous plants. Plant-MFC’s use bacteria to convert solar energy into…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Visually impaired humans lead very difficult lives. They often must rely on external sources to help them. Many of these external sources are guide dogs and walking sticks. The problem with…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
A membrane made from multi-walled carbon nanotubes proved after 3 trials its ability to decrease the salinity of seawater. First, the membrane underwent formation and impregnation with silve…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The aim of this project was to verify the influence of halobacteria on the development and germination of lettucein extreme salt conditions. This hypothesis could be the solution to minimize…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) plague eutrophic waters and are often caused by excess anthropogenic nutrients, specifically phosphorus. Allelopathy, a defense mechanism in which an organism excr…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Harmony project aims at understanding the effect of applying mathematical rules in the design of everyday objects on their aesthetical perception. In the past, mathematical canons were u…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
Many developing communities do not have enough money to afford electricity for their homes. Nonrenewable Energy is cheap in generating energy, but they can cause detrimental effects on the e…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Our goal is to help more than 30% of the world’s population to sleep better by providing a non-invasive closed loop system for improving sleep that can be used at home. The system is built i…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The use of the electronic nicotine delivery system, also known as electronic cigarette (e-cig), is tremendously rising in young adults in the US. E-cigs are the most commonly used tobacco-re…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The beat had stopped. A beloved one had died. A family missed a father or a mother. We didn’t lose a heart; we lost a family. As the WHO said, in 2015 14.4 million people around the world di…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Heart attacks are one of the most common heart problems and happen very quickly, so it is very important that people with a high risk of a heart attack be provided with devices that alert em…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science First Award
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide (WHO), and experts estimate that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as ‘at risk'. There is…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very deadly form of brain cancer. The effects of hybrid compounds of heterocyclic rhodanine and arylidene (boronic acid) were tested on GBM cancer cells. T…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Occlusive thrombus (blood clot) formation is a major pathological event in cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, removing the clot is critical to restore blood flow to vital organs. One way to…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
This project aims to present a novel method for the asteroid search processes’ automatization, since these procedures still commonly rely on humans and manual spotting. The program, featurin…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
There are over 1.5 million people living in refugee camps across the world. Wind storms with speeds over 80 mph rip current refugee tents apart, destroying what little they have left. We cre…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Current requirements for jet engines normally involve obtaining a great, maximum power while using the small mass of fuel and oxidizer. However, the task of creating effective low power rock…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
PEDOT:PSS is a widely used conductive polymer in the field of photoelectric devices. However, the films fabricated by ordinary methods such as spin casting have adverse performance, therefor…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SC) have received attention due to quick charge times and higher power densities than lithium-ion batteries (LIB), which enable them to be implemented in electronic devices.…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a state-of-the-art optical technique to probe the dielectric properties of materials in the nano-scale. Only requiring mini…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a medical condition that results from head impact injuries in contact sports. A Boston University study reports occurence of CTE in 87% of the cases…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Each year, 251,000 patients die due to medical errors in the United States. In aortic valve replacement surgery, over 6% of patients die during or within 5 years of surgery due to medical er…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Having a source of potable water is essential for every country’s survival. Therefore, people need to know how to supply themselves with purified drinking water in case of a crisis. As in Pu…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Chemotherapy continues to play an important role in treating various cancers; however, during the course of treatment it is often challenging to differentiate between cancerous and healthy t…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The purpose of Hopping Down the Bunny Trail: Spatial Distribution of Lepus americanus Tracks is to test if Lepus americanus tracks are distributed randomly in a survey area. This year, the p…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
If the timings of flower opening and closing could be controlled or predicted, it is worth applying to agronomical uses, such as artificial pollination. It is reported that the flower openin…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Kyphosis is the excessive curvature of the thoracic spine along the sagittal plane, creating a hunchback or slouching appearance. It is a pressing issue in modern society due to anatomical i…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Modern society requires an energy source that is renewable, non-pollutant, efficient and compatible with most machinery. Algal biofuel, a liquid fuel synthesized from the lipid produced by m…