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ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Rapid industrial development has led to severe environmental damage and negative impact on human health due to the release of unwanted massive microplastics (diameter < 5 mm), water-soluble…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics First Award
Motivation: Many applications in the medical and engineering fields benefit from identifying topological features in a three-dimensional geometric model. Problem statement: When an object’s…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lack of access to drinking water due to anthropogenic hydrosphere pollution is a widespread humanitarian issue facing the global population, particularly those vulnerable due to their geogra…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Nuclear waste disposal is a global concern. The problem of nuclear waste disposal is growing and threatens the environment, people, and future generations as well. As we continue to release…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Microplastic pollution in water is now recognized as a devastating problem by many organizations, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with recent studies estimating…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Huanglongbing (HLB) is an incurable disease that affects citrus trees. This citrus disease is also often referred to as "citrus greening." This disease was first spotted in China in the earl…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
The asteroid population is incomprehensibly large. Understanding, discovering and tracking asteroids are important to avoid catastrophic events to human civilization. Around one million aste…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent rise in COVID-19 cases has highlighted the need for effective and targeted measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Consequently, app-based tracing strategies have been proposed as…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The comparative analysis of natural polymer-based biomimetic neural scaffolds using the taxic response of fungal mycelium was designed to investigate functional deficits following Spinal cor…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to find a novel way to treat burn wound infections by exploring the interaction between flavonoids and antibiotics. 'Flavonoids' are naturally derived secon…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
This study investigates the use of rescue device structures made with inspiration from origami as a viable replacement for modern day debris lifting rescue devices. The structure studied as…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
Harvesting Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crabs) to produce the Limulus amoebocyte lysate endotoxin assay for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and drinking water is ravaging coastal ecosyste…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Climate change is an area of growing concern that threatens the earth as a whole. Due to an excess production of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, the difference in pressure encou…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Current processes of drug discovery are too long, expensive, and ineffective. Companies undergo years of research and development without the certainty of obtaining conclusive results. Drug…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
This project aimed to determine the viability and effectiveness of a detachable airplane cabin equipped with a novel design of a parachute system in correcting the translational and rotation…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Scoliosis is a condition of abnormal spinal curvature with approximately 60,000 U.S. pediatric patients undergoing surgery or being placed into braces each year. Skeletal maturity assessment…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The most commonly administered chemotherapeutic agent in Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment, Temozolomide (TMZ), fails to generate a clinically significant response in over 50% of patients due to…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer threatens millions of individuals every year and remains a central issue in the scientific community. It’s important to search for new alternative treatments, and anticancer peptides…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Modern-day supercapacitors have problems including lack of good dynamic performance, low power rates and insufficient energy storage. Features such as voltage malfunction can occur when the…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the sudden onset of kidney damage in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood, requiring emergency hospitalization. AKI patient mortality rate is hig…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women globally. Advanced diagnosis of intrinsic molecular subtype is key to evaluating intermediate survival; however, b…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-contaminated water for reasons such as drinking tube well groundwater. In 2019, the author created a novel and inexpensive…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer(CRC) ranks third in occurrence and second in mortality among all cancers. Current CRC identification methods are often ineffective due to the invasiveness of such procedure…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The CDC recommends that people wash their hands before and after touching their mask, and only touch it by the ear loops. However, as masks have become ubiquitous over the past year, it has…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
This study reports two new complex compounds, Fe(H2O)4(UA) and Fe(UA)3 (UA=Uric Acid), with Fe as the central metal and uric acid or water as ligands. Both crystals were synthesized by the s…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Much of the exoplanet transit data from the Kepler space telescope remains unanalyzed, especially in the search for habitability. To enable the investigation of Kepler exoplanets without the…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The ability to precisely measure cell permeability will be a necessary asset in the future development of intracellular antibiotics. The efficacy of the antibiotic vancomycin is reliant on c…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
It is often the case that the size of some data is fixed and it might be encrypted all at once. Currently, in such a situation, we use a stream cipher or a block cipher with some mode of ope…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Humans have fallen in love with plastics, from toys, to food containers, to bags, and straws. Scientists have been researching and warning about plastic pollution in the ocean for decades. T…