379 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
379 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
This novel invention of vertical axis fan is inspired by the structure of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to overcome the airflow limitation of conventional horizontal-axis fans and immo…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
After the age of 40, humans start to lose height when aging. Height loss is usually attributed to the decrease of upper-body length caused by vertebral compression, but clear evidence to sup…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This research is aimed to design a novel movable underwater platform that could cover the disadvantages that prevail in traditional propeller driven submersibles. Cownose ray, a fish species…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Flexibility in structure is required for rescue tasks in disaster relief. However, most current track robots are with rigid chassis structures which are not suitable for unstable terrains or…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Erhu is a Chinese bow-string instrument with which music played by beginners is not beautiful but annoying. Its music characteristics and noise production mechanism haven’t been thoroughly s…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Compared with the traditional separation method, membrane separation method is considered to be the most effective method for the treatment of oily wastewater because of the easy operation p…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The dynamic behavior of granular matter under vibration puzzles soft matter physicists today, and remains a major branch of modern soft matter research. This research first analyzed a classi…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) is an ideal vector for gene therapy, but it still has some challenges. Based on AAV, more efficient and more tissue-specific recombinant vectors are needed. In a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Commercial lithium-ion battery (LIB) is currently the dominating power source for the portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. However, the further application of LIB has been hamp…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Self-localization is a critical component of autonomous systems, including mobile robots. As a popular approach, mobile robot visual self-localization methods have been widely employed in ta…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Drosophila suzukii is a type of fruit fly that caused severe economic damage to soft fruit crops in North America. It has a mutualistic relationship with the microbial communities in the ber…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Traditional spring-tendon-driven self-adaptive prosthesis hand, such as the Stark Hand, uses multiple springs to realize self-adaptive grasping, and uses tendon to drive finger extension. It…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Acid rain is a common air pollution problem in southern China. Its acid particles corrode metal structures, causing significant economic losses and safety hazards. Traditional organic polyme…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Different people suit best in different glasses. In order to allow more people to get best fit glasses with less money in less time, this project explores the mathematical relationship betwe…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Previous studies have shown that bacterial lipid droplets can bind to and protect DNA through MLDS proteins. The purpose of this study is to explore the binding ability of T4 phage DNA to li…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The ability of communication is extremely important among animals, and the way of communication is different across species. Although the communication of higher organisms has been extensive…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
A chladni's figure is a symmetrical nodal line pattern formed by applying vibration to a uniform solid thin plate to form a two-dimensional standing wave by a specific frequency. It is widel…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
A fundus camera is an important medical device that can help the doctors to diagnose diseases by capturing the image of the retina. In my research, a handhold smartphone-based fundus camera…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The iron spills on the highways are called "invisible mine”. If a car hits the iron spills, its tires will burst, which can lead to a series of serious accidents, and may sometimes cause sec…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Flower thrips, Frankliniella intonsa (Trybom) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), are worldwide pests that cause damage to a range of plants in agriculture, horticulture and forestry and are vectors…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In the past, many researches on the pricing of movie tickets have only given some subjective suggestions and there’s no mathematical expression, however, starting from the consumer choice be…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Excessive glutamate release in the brain leads to neuronal death in severe neurological diseases of ischemic stroke, while glutamate levels in cerebrospinal fluid are more favorable for refl…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The common 3D printers in the market are almost monochromatic printing, there is a large gap between the appearance of the product and the individual demand. With the development of the addi…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
This project is based on the combination of aircraft airfoil and bionics to design the shape of micro aircraft. On the premise of ensuring the aerodynamic performance, the shape of micro air…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
With the construction of libraries in small communities, book inventory and management have become labor-intensive and resource-consuming. In order to save manual labor, this research enable…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The rehabilitation needs of hemiplegic patients have attracted great attention at home and abroad. According to the shortcomings of current rigid or soft hand rehabilitation devices, a novel…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
The study of macrocyclic compounds is the precursor and also a hot spot of the development of supramolecular chemistry. Star macrocyclic molecules such as crown ether, acupoint ether, and cy…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, we investigate the generalized tent maps, whose vertex, left endpoint and right endpoint are (a, b), (0, s) and (1,c) respectively, where 0<a<1, 0<b<=1,0<=<1 and 0<=s<1. Accor…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Synchronization is a basic physical phenomenon in the dynamics of coupled nonlinear systems. This project mainly studies the coupling phenomenon in several metronomes, which means that the m…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Drought and salinization of the land are serious environmental problems facing our world, which will inhibit the normal growth of crops. Therefore, using purple corn as the research material…