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ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Electrical discharges in liquids have been used for water disinfection and decontamination, nanoparticle production, and many other chemical and biological applications. Gas bubbles are intr…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
[Research purpose] Skateboarding World Day falls on June 21 every year. The skateboard is divided into two categories: (1) Trick Board; (2) Long board. The latter is more popular. For the sa…
ISEF · 2016
Spaceflight has always been hindered by propellant constraints. The high propellant mass fractions required for chemical systems and the thrust disadvantages of electric systems have slowed…
ISEF · 2016
This research was aimed at creating and testing hollandite, a synthetic polymorph of titanium dioxide (TiO2), for its potential as an alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) in touchscreens. D…
ISEF · 2016
Goal setting: experimental study of the dependence of current distribution and current density along the length of the processed item when electrochemical polishing of wire from geometrical…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
When we did an experiment on electrolysis using mechanical pencil leads as electrodes, one of the electrodes happened to be broken and fell into the electrolytic solution. The experiment was…
ISEF · 2016
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars, that often result in people losing a hand, arm or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…
ISEF · 2016
Doctors will use buttons in the surgery’s room to send messages to a smartphone . giving orders to the bulletin board which will translate it to an information in the TV. The system will aut…
ISEF · 2016
The team sought to create a polymer fiber material that would serve as a viable drug delivery system for the diffusion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Alpha (VEGF) on the human heart a…
ISEF · 2016
BACKGROUND: The human population is increasing at a dramatic rate while agricultural productivity is decreasing due to various environmental stresses such as drought or cold. Engineering pla…
ISEF · 2016
In the 1950s Nash and Kuiper proved the existence of an isometric embedding of a flat torus in 3D Euclidean space; however, they did not provide a visualization of such embedding. In the '70…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose is to study of the influence of the parameters of the air flow on the efficiency of the inertia of the wind turbine. Hypothesis Adjustment parameters of air flow through the impe…
ISEF · 2016
Subsidized feed-in tariffs boosted CO2-friendly regenerative energy production in Europe, but were drastically reduced to limit costs. The reduced profitability caused stagnating regenerativ…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to optimize enzyme catalyzed waste paper hydrolysis to make fermentable sugars for biofuel production. During phase I enzyme composition, hydrolysis temperatu…
ISEF · 2016
This project aims to replace existing brain electrodes that are failing in chronic use. Brain electrodes have many important applications including the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and b…
ISEF · 2016
Inorganic nitrogen pollution typically caused by farming fertilizer runoff affects the environment in four major ways: increasing the acidity of freshwater ecosystems, stimulating the eutrop…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The Enigma machine was used in WWII by the Germans to communicate with their submarines and within their military to send secure messages. It was considered one of the most secure encryption…
ISEF · 2016
There are currently many drawbacks associated with using nano- drug carriers. In order to remediate some of those drawbacks, research will be conducted on engineering a novel oleocanthal nan…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Acne vulgaris is a common inflammatory disorder of the pilosebaceous unit with both physical and psychological ramifications. It is widely accepted that both Propionibacterium acnes and Stap…
ISEF · 2016
The current method of treatment of patients in the healthcare system, to first diagnose a condition and then to apply a known therapy, is time-consuming and expensive. These treatments may h…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Beta-lactamase hydrolyzes beta-lactam antibiotics, making antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections ineffective. An emerging beta-lactamase, carbapenemase, can even hydrolyze last resort…
ISEF · 2016
The maturity of the electronic commerce, internet banking facilities, and software protection systems issues stimulate the world's attention to create a safe electronic data exchange environ…
ISEF · 2016
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are an increasingly relevant issue in industrialized countries that pose a risk to health and the environment. This project was designed to enhance the p…
ISEF · 2016
The growing popularity of bioethanol in the fuel industry emphasizes the importance of creating an efficient but inexpensive system for large-scale ethanol production by yeast. Recently, the…
ISEF · 2016
In recent years, the global energy crisis and climate change have become serious issues in need of innovative solutions, so exploring new renewable energy resources is the primary objective…
ISEF · 2016
Artificial sweeteners (acesulfame, aspartame, saccharin and sucralose) are used as sugar substitutes in foods and beverage. Can these sweeteners biodegrade in nature? Will they cause problem…
ISEF · 2016
Commonly available beetle larvae could be the key to diminishing five types of polystyrene waste in our environment: purple compact Styrofoam, expanded white Styrofoam, packing peanuts, bean…
ISEF · 2016
K173Q is a polymorphism of ecto-nucleotide pyrophosphatase/ phosphodiesterase 1 (NPP1), an enzyme which inhibits bone mineralization and ectopic calcification by hydrolyzing ATP to produce p…
ISEF · 2016
In today’s world uncontrolled and unconscious antibiotics usage cause huge risk to human health due to rapid development of resistant bacterial strains. Infectious bacteria have the ability…
ISEF · 2016
This project explored results from the previous year’s research, in which well-defined quantities of infinity appeared to be equal to undefined quantities of a larger infinite cardinality (e…