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ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The problem of polyethylene pollution provides a solid basis for the creation of the new eco-friendly materials, such as bacterial cellulose. Objective of this project is to increase the eff…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Production of energy from fossil fuel can cause a bad impact on the environment and destroy a vital source of raw material for other industries, recently electrical energy becomes more impor…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A microplastic is a plastic that is the size of 5 millimeters or less. They are pervasive pollutants that are being identified in environments and organisms throughout the world, however, th…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Starch-derived biofuels from first-generation feedstocks, like Zea mays (corn) and Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane), dominate the bioenergy market. The competing applications of these conve…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
More than 72 billion pounds of food goes to waste globally while 50 million people struggled with hunger in 2020. To combat this, packinghouses coat produce with a fruit wax that must be hea…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Vascular occlusion is a well-documented phenomenon known to be associated with cases of COVID-19 infection. Recent work establishes that vascular occlusion is related to fibrin(ogen) aggrega…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthquake generated lateral ground displacement is a very dangerous soil phenomenon that can cause extreme damage to buildings and infrastructure. Few research studies have investigated how…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stuffed toys have always been an integral part of most childhoods. The resulting global market for them is currently ~8 billion USD per year. Hard parts are included in stuffed toys to serve…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project was to create a motorized fish ladder to aid anadromous fish trying to bypass dams to reach migratory breeding or feeding grounds. Currently, fish struggle to cro…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
A better understanding of space weather phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the solar wind, requires greater knowledge of the coronal magnetic structure. Faraday rotation (F…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Second Award
The analysis of human coronaviruses and the confirmed cases of COVID-19 reinfection are indicative of waning immunity present to some degree in patients recovering from COVID-19. Therefore,…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Last year’s research focused on synthesizing novel bipolar membranes (BPM) for fuel cells. The results showed that Pyrrole/Nafion™ BPM performance was at par or exceeded that of traditional…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
After a star has shined for the last time, its core can disintegrate to become a Supernova. Type I Supernova occurs in binary systems stars, which contains a white dwarf star and a companion…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Ocean acidification shifts Earth's oceans towards pH-neutral conditions. The global crisis has left thousands of coral reefs uninhabitable, jeopardizing marine biodiversity and resulting in…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The design of highly efficient and inexpensive bifunctional electrocatalysts that possess highly catalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction is desirab…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has threatened billions of lives across the globe and demands immediate attention. Although vaccines have recently started deployment, there…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Ebola virus disease (EVD) causes hemorrhagic fever infection with a mortality rate of up to 90%. Current treatments, mostly experimental, require medical equipment and facilities often not a…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and follicular lymphoma are collectively attributed to 2.8 million deaths annually with an average treatment cost of $212,000. A prevalent mutation in the human…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibits among the highest rates of antibiotic resistance and is currently the main cause of carbapenem resistant infections, yet there are no clinically effective trea…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Approximately about 219 pregnant women die daily from disease complications due to their lack of awareness. So, awareness about health care for pregnant ladies has a very big concern in the…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Motherhood guide aims to help new mothers to know her baby's needs only from his crying voice, by using the ability of learning machine and AI concept. it uses the cloud server of the websit…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Cancers and treatments are very diverse, often resulting in mixed patient outcomes: predicting survival early may improve prognosis. MRI is favorable for evaluating treatment efficacy, but c…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease causing deterioration of neurons in the brain, leading to dementia and eventual death. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s conventionally consists of a comb…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
This project aims to develop a novel vaccine against the yellow fever virus using an mRNA platform. Currently, the vaccine used for the prevention of Yellow Fever is based on a live, attenua…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Unilateral incompatibility (UI) occurs in an interspecific cross when the flower pistil terminates pollen tube formation prematurely before fertilization. UI occurs in one direction, the opp…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent research in the treatment and prevention of disease has become dominated by a relatively new and revolutionary technique: mRNA. Although initially used to develop cancer prophylactics…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
According to the World Health Organization, cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the world. Cancer refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has plagued the world. Currently, Chest CT imaging is used alongside the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test (RT-P…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Microgreens have the potential to play a significant role in the intake of vegetables by children, by members of communities with restricted access to fresh vegetables, and are even being co…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Optimal control for exoskeletons is unknown. Human-in-the-Loop Optimization (HiLO), an automated process that uses biological signals to tune controllers. The most used biological signal use…