Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes impacts the patient's quality of life, society and the health system. It is estimated that by 2030, the numbers of people diagnosed are expected to exceed 552 million. Inhibi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Ammonia has been considered an encouraging substitute for fossil fuels in hopes of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Although ammonia is promising, it still has the issue of low reactivit…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Distinct features of transcription factors play a primary role in plant growth and development. Understanding the root development of plants can further develop a more robust, improved versi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The combination of hydrogen and ammonia balances the energy of hydrogen, increases the low flammability of ammonia, and is derived from renewable sources. However, ammonia yields NOx emissio…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
The inflexibility of fixed-dosage drugs hinders the way to a safer and personalized approach to mediate withdrawal symptoms, especially with medications having high dependency rates. This re…
Embedded Systems
Salmon, tuna, shrimp, and almost all other seafood have been shown to contain variable amounts of mercury. The release of mercury into the environment has adverse effects on humans and aquat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Because we have used fossil fuels as our primary fuel source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising and pose serious environmental challenges. Helium-3 may serve as a clean energy resource…
Materials Science
Developing active, low-cost, and stable catalysts is a key challenge for efficient hydrogen production. Copper oxide is one of the most effective photocatalysts for water splitting. However,…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
In the modern era of the technological revolution, most energy needs are fulfilled from burning fossil fuels. They are not only depleting very fast but have adverse impacts on our environmen…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The combustion of fossil fuels is inflating atmospheric CO2 concentrations to an unprecedented peak. This has reached 412 ppm, a staggering 112 ppm higher than the greatest concentration to…
Materials Science
Supercapacitors are gaining importance in energy storage applications due to their portability, long cycle lifetime, high energy density, and power density. The purpose of this project is to…
Environmental Engineering
The manufacturing culture and economy are rapidly growing, but the environmental issues it is leaving behind continue to be a major concern. Studies predict that by 2025, 50% of the world's…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Self-powered units, especially energy storage devices with self-charging ability, are considered sustainable power sources for future electronic devices. In this research, a novel supercapac…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Manganese oxides (MnxOy) and manganese sulfide (MnS) have become significant materials for extensive research in different fields. Most of their synthesis methods have drawbacks, such as bei…
Materials Science
In the past 100 years, rapid climate change from fossil fuel use has caused continuing problems, such as a 30% reduction in crop production and up to 140°F temperatures in some regions. Clea…
Materials Science
Bi2Te3-based materials have exhibited high thermoelectric performance, particularly at lower temperatures making them suitable for cooling applications. However, their efficiency is limited…
Embedded Systems
The process of building a new communication system is costly and time-consuming, requiring the design and characterization of many components to satisfy multiple requirements. However, there…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The lack of effective treatments for many diseases increases the demand for new drug discovery. Consequently, the drug repositioning (DR) strategy is widely used. Drug-Target Interaction (DT…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Modern wearable technologies require highly efficient energy storage devices to improve their performance while maintaining low cost and non-toxicity. One of the most salient devices that po…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
First Award
Hydrogen is one of the cleanest forms of energy storage that, when burned, produces only water as a byproduct. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen is greatly limited due to the costly material…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
According to a recent study, 32% of the renewable photovoltaic energy harvested is unused. In this context, photo-electrochemical PEC water splitting is viewed as a viable option for produci…
Materials Science
Tin Lead Perovskite solar cells (TLPSCs) have grown to an unprecedented power conversion efficiency (PCE) rate exceeding 23%. However, the main drawback is that TLPSCs are unstable and their…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) logging is a vital part of modern progressive oil reservoir analysis for efficient oil recovery. Although it already aids in the determination of porosity, s…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Global warming and the rapidly growing world population are among the most serious issues that threaten global food security. A new approach to support plant productivity is through exploiti…
Environmental Engineering
Increased human activity within energy reserves, wrong farming practices, and rapid industrialization have contributed to an increase in environmental contamination. Heavy metals, radionucli…
Chemistry
According to recent reports, the global economic losses caused by product counterfeiting reached 1.82 trillion USD in 2020. One of the newest and promising methods for anti-counterfeiting is…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the high demand for renewable energy resources, large-scale energy storage systems are required to safely store the energy produced. Lithium-Ion batteries are the commercially dominant…
Physics and Astronomy
La2CoMnO6 (LCMO), a transition metal double perovskite oxide, is considered a promising raw material for spintronics. Spintronics will help to develop a smaller, less energy-consuming, and h…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive disabling neuromuscular disorder caused by recessive X-linked mutations in the dystrophin protein and affects 1 in every 3,500 live male bi…
Chemistry
First Award
Hydrogen is a promising renewable energy carrier. However, it has the lowest density of all other substances, so it needs to be compressed to run a car. Formic acid (FA) is an attractive liq…