Plant Sciences
Rice is a major food source worldwide with 3.5 billion people depending on it. Rice yield loss is up to 47% annually because of the use of herbicides. To address this problem, CRISPR/Cas9 sy…
Energy: Chemical
The dependence on renewable energy resources has increased tremendously. For industrial and large-scale applications, these energy resources require the use of effective and safe large-scale…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
Earth absorbs approximately 3850 zeta joules of solar energy year-1, which is more than enough to power the entire planet. Solar cell technologies have the potential to harvest this energy;…
Materials Science
In 2016, the World Economic Forum declared perovskites solar cells as one of the top ten emerging technologies in the world due to tremendous improvement in their efficiency and their econom…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Contaminated water, caused by organic dyes pollutants, is a serious problem and concern worldwide. It could cause waterborne diseases and chronic health consequences. Photocatalysts have bee…
Materials Science
Solution processable UV-Photodetectors have many essential implementations in industrial, defense, and scientific research fields due to their enabling of photoconductive gain. All-inorganic…
Energy: Chemical
The world is dependent on energy coming from fossil fuels, a source that is not only unsustainable but harmful as well. Consequently, many sustainable sources have been uncovered as candidat…
Embedded Systems
While benzene is one of the most industrially used chemicals; it also poses environmental and health hazards, such as cancer, even at low concentrations in parts per billion (ppb) per the Wo…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The widespread use of petrochemicals often leads to substance spills in aquatic environments during transfers or offshore drilling/exploration, resulting in catastrophic pollution, economica…
Chemistry
Hydrogen may play a key future role as a carrier of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel. It could be used in automotive vehicles as it is easy to deliver via the electrolysis of water an…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant failure can be attributed to graft failure, poor graft function, and the failure of the homing process in which the transplanted cells settle into th…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Despite their role in regulating crucial plant phenomena like plant architecture and senescence, information about plant hormones, especially strigolactones, is relatively scarce. Strigolact…
Systems Software
Exoplanets have garnered interest in the scientific community, as indicated with the launch of TESS and Kepler Telescope’s expansive online library of exoplanet data. With the future launch…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Effective remediation of oily wastewater includes the oil-water separation and the decontamination of organic pollutants. Although membranes with a characteristic selective wettability of wa…
Animal Sciences
The nervous system is one of the most complicated systems, not only structurally, but functionally in regulating behavioral and physiological processes. Because of its structural complexity…
Energy: Physical
Fourth Award
Solar power is a main source of energy and is expected to play a vital role in fulfilling the future global demand for electricity. A major obstacle hindering useful photovoltaic (PV) utiliz…
Chemistry
Many applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that touch a wide variety of technological arenas, from the automotive and aeronautical industries to biomedicine and energy…
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer is the most common diagnosed cancer in women worldwide. Despite the success of surgery to treat early stages of breast cancer, later stages often require systemic chemotherapy…
Energy: Physical
One challenge that currently faces the solar industry is the storage and transportation of this abundant energy. To mitigate this issue, solar energy can be converted to a different source o…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
A paramount issue that contemporary agriculture faces is the worldwide infestation of soil with parasitic weeds. Strigolactones (SLs), a family of carotenoid-derived plant hormones, act as g…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Today, transportation vehicles depend greatly on gasoline and diesel as fuels with their respective engines for mobility. Both engines have negative properties that contribute to leading to…
Biomedical Engineering
Slow wound healing increases the risk of serious bacterial infection. Yearly, 6.5 million people in the world are diagnosed with chronic wounds causing 265,000 fatalities. Previous research…
Energy: Chemical
Lead (Pb) -based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) currently show great efficiency. However, their stability, toxicity and longtime fabrication are the main barriers against commercialization. F…
Materials Science
As the use of transistors have proliferated in electronic devices, much attention has been granted to the area of research in increasing their efficiency. Thin film transistors (TFT) are imp…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Visual impairment is a major global health problem. In 2017, WHO estimated that there were 253 million people worldwide with this ailment. According to the journal of the American Medical As…
Energy: Chemical
Developing cost-efficient methods to store renewable energy is an essential part of satisfying the growing worldwide energy demands. The evolution of hydrogen from water splitting driven by…
Chemistry
Third Award
Thousands of chemical substances are synthesized and introduced to the science field every day. The hazardous properties for these chemicals need to be established before they are used. The…
Energy: Chemical
According to the United States’ Energy Information Administration (EIA), it is predicted that fossil fuels will power 77% of the global economy in 2040. The catastrophic impacts such fuels h…
Physics and Astronomy
Yang-Mills theory, one of the most important questions is to mathematically explain the mass gap, in quantum applications of the formulas. this research test the role of simulating the effec…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Industrial pollution has been a major environmental concern globally. A significant type of these industrial pollutants is organic dyes, which have been found to negatively affect human heal…