Every American Junior Academy of Science project Fairfolio holds: 1,041 entries across 8 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's AJAS projects.
1041 projects · showing 991–1020
AJAS · 2017
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
The increase in counterfeited documents, banknotes, and medications impacts society and calls for new security technologies that are difficult to reproduce. Nature mimicking materials with u…
AJAS · 2017
Energy and Transport (inferred)
There is an increasing interest in the development of renewable energy technologies. Biomass is being utilized as an energy source, and several technologies have been developed that convert…
AJAS · 2017
Surface grafted polymer brushes comprised of poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine) (pMPC) have a attracted the attention of researchers due to their unique lubricating properties.…
AJAS · 2017
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
Post-polymerization modification of thermomechanical properties is a useful approach to help address the limitations due to the inherently anisotropic nature of thermosetting materials used…
AJAS · 2017
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently shown much promise as thin layer semiconductors in application to field effect transistor technology. As n-type materials in heterostru…
AJAS · 2017
8-10% of the US population use implantable medical devices (IMDs) to improve quality of life, or increase lifespan. Batteries powering IMDs dominate device size and cost and require replacem…
AJAS · 2017
Plant Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to measure interorganismic communications through growth pattern responses in Phaseolus vulgaris plants when neighboring plants were exposed to high le…
AJAS · 2017
Embedded Systems (inferred)
Carbon monoxide poisoning is a problem that causes 15,000 injuries and 430 deaths per year in the U.S. As keyless ignition systems in automobiles have become wide spread, so have the substan…
AJAS · 2017
Plant Sciences (inferred)
The showy lady’s slipper, Cypripedium reginae, is critically endangered in the state of New Hampshire. Our laboratory has extensive experience propagating orchids of the Cypripedium genus in…
AJAS · 2017
The purpose of Project IRIS (Instant Response Interactive System) is to develop and test a basic, affordable automated digital assistant that can open doors and turn on lights, as well as pe…
AJAS · 2017
The ubiquity of smartphones and their sensors has led to the rise of Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS), the practice of crowdsourcing sensory information from mobile devices. However, little researc…
AJAS · 2017
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
Solar flares are among the leading causes of our planet's magnetosphere disruption; they often induce major geomagnetic storms, and can lead to consequences, chiefly telecommunications and s…
AJAS · 2017
Microbiology (inferred)
As antibiotic resistance becomes a larger issue due to overuse and misuse, silver nanoparticles are being studied as potential antimicrobial agents. The researcher questioned, if inorganic s…
AJAS · 2017
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
In recent decades, much research has been conducted in order to determine how to construct a learning environment that best facilitates the learning process. An ideal learning environment wo…
AJAS · 2017
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Efforts like the Human Brain Initiative aim to understand the incredible complexity of our intricate nervous system to solve challenging neurological problems including epilepsy and autism.…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Although Computerized Axial Tomography (CT) scans are critical for cancer discovery and treatment, they pose a threat as a source of immense radiation – a cause of cancer itself. However, th…
AJAS · 2017
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that can store more energy than conventional capacitors and deliver the energy faster than batteries. Although, batteries may have a higher energy…
AJAS · 2017
Though taxol (paclitaxel) is an anticancer drug used in many chemotherapy treatments, it is only found in its pure form in the bark of the rare Pacific yew tree. To obtain 1 gram of Taxol, t…
AJAS · 2017
The purpose of this research was to determine if cryopreservation could be effective for Cnidarians, such as the polyps of Aurelia aurita (Moon Jelly). It was proposed that the use of cryopr…
AJAS · 2017
Microbiology (inferred)
Mouthwash is not a very common method of maintaining oral health because of the variety of opinions given by the public. Bacteria such a Staphylococcus areus, Bacillus subtillus, and Microco…
AJAS · 2017
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Hormones play a wide variety of roles in plant responses to the environment; even changes in a single hormone can cause several different behaviors. Ethylene, long recognized to regulate abs…
AJAS · 2017
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of chlorine and bleach on pigskin, which is similar to human skin. This project will help people who enjoy pools, to determine the…
AJAS · 2017
Animal Sciences (inferred)
The purpose was to learn if sugar may serve as an effective treatment for Varroa destructor within an observation beehive. The varroa mite is an ectoparasite that feeds off the hemolymph of…
AJAS · 2017
In America, nearly 1/3 of the adult population or 70 million American adults have been diagnosed with the disease known as the silent killer: high blood pressure. This experiment was designe…
AJAS · 2017
This experiment tested the effect of gabapentin on Dugesia tigrina’s nervous system after forced split reproduction. This was chosen because only 10% of medications that are approved for the…
AJAS · 2017
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which epithelial cells lose their cell to cell adhesion, detach from the extracellular matrix, and transform into mesenchymal like…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Oil spills are a pressing issue and cleanup methods often further harm the environment. Two eco-friendly methods of oil spill collection are mycoremediation and phytoremediation, which break…
AJAS · 2017
A primary characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease is the oligomerization of amyloid-beta (aβ) 1-40 random coil structures leading to the formation of amyloid plaques highly resistant to degrad…
AJAS · 2017
T-box transcription factor Tbx21 (T-bet) serves as a master regulator of T helper 1 cell commitment in CD4+ T cells and NK cells and acts as a major transcriptional controller of CD8+ T cell…
AJAS · 2017
The purpose of this research was to determine if exposure to UVB light had an effect on the blood vitamin D3 levels in green sea turtles, with the hypothesis being that UV exposure would inc…