345 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
345 projects · showing 271–300
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The recent revolution of unconventional shale gas resources has flipped the coin to a new era in the oil and gas industry and the world. The primary motivation of this research is to utilize…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Preignition (PI) is an abnormal form of combustion that has recently emerged as a bottleneck towards engine downsizing and improved efficiency in spark-ignited engines. Several speculative t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressively decreased memory functions. Nearly 44 million people have AD worldwide. Moreover, AD cannot be prevented, c…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The total solar energy absorbed by the Earth is 3.85 × 1024 J per year, which is approximately 104 times greater than the annual world energy consumption. Solar energy must be harvested to p…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Many real-world issues such as coloring geographical maps and scheduling, can correspond to one of graph theory’s most important concepts: graph coloring problems. As the complexity of these…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
According to the United States Statistics Division, the production of hazardous wastes around the world has increased drastically by a rate of 40,000% in just one generation. Hazardous indus…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Abelian Sandpiles have numerous contributions in the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics. As they are an example of systems displaying Self-Organized Criticality, Cellular Au…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Most computation in electronic devices is performed using transistor based logic gates. However, due to physical limitations on transistor’s size, it will be impossible to develop the transi…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
10,000 of all known human diseases are monogenic, caused by a single mutation in the DNA. Scientists have tried developing the Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) and Transcription Activator-like Eff…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Light Fidelity (LiFi), a multi-functional tool that provides high-speed secure data transmission through lighting, is currently being developed to substitute WiFi. However, its dependency on…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Chronic lung diseases are a serious world threat. According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 364 million pulmonary disease patients around the world and this number…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
WHO stated that globally 50,000 people die every day due to diseases caused by water pollution. Therefore, water treatment is one of the world scientific research priorities. Most techniques…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is considered one of the top comorbidities in the Middle East. WHO reported in 2010 that the average prevalence of diabetes in this region is 9.3%. Variations…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
Memory devices are developing at a slow rate, hindering the computational industry’s growth. The hysteresis shown in perovskites has been utilized to create the two resistive states necessar…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Solar energy can be utilized through photovoltaic cells to simultaneously meet the global demand for energy and decrease the production of greenhouse gases. However, their low efficiency rat…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Petroleum-based fuels supply almost 95% of the energy used in the transportation sector. Due to their high boiling points, refineries must perform elaborate processing of the crude oil to ob…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
If climate change persists, ocean warming and acidification will have catastrophic effects on coral reefs and marine biodiversity in the next 100 years. However, marine and coral biodiversit…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in females worldwide and shows a 28% increase amongst Saudi females in current statistics. Despite many treatment options, severe relapse s…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Saudi Arabia is the largest oil exporter in the world. 64,000,000 tons of sulfur oxides are produced every year through the combustion of organic sulfur compounds in the oil industry. This l…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Degradation of coral reefs due to increasing eutrophication of the Earth's oceans is of increasing global concern. Understanding the effects of nutrient enrichment on corals and their endosy…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
According to World Cancer Research Fund, breast cancer is the second deadliest malignancy in women worldwide. During the last decades, nanoparticles have received much attention due to their…
ISEF · 2016
Phthalates esters (PAEs) and bisphenol A (BPA) are harmful man-made chemicals that are used widely in plastic industry and can be found in many consumer products. Generally, research has lin…
ISEF · 2016
Around the world, approximately 15% of couples suffer from infertility, of which male factors are responsible for half of these cases. Male factor infertility can be attributed to genetic de…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Parasitic weed Striga accounts for estimated yearly crop losses over $20 billion in the United States alone. Seeds of parasitic weeds germinate in response to signaling molecules called stri…
ISEF · 2016
Global energy demand is rapidly growing, primarily from developing countries, and conventional fuels continue to dominate our energy infrastructure. Global warming and pollutant emissions ar…
ISEF · 2016
Polymer-based membranes in gas separation processes have become a prevailing technology in the field of material science, especially in industrial capacities. These membranes can remove wate…
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
Water treatment is currently considered as one of the top research priorities in Saudi Arabia. It has been reported by World Health Organization that 50,000 people die every day from disease…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental regulations on fuel quality have substantially limited the allowable amount of heavy (C9+) aromatics in gasoline, the principal components of heavy reformate. Thus, alternative…