Bruce Arey

Characterization of tungsten carbide synthesized by controlled template method

Lead Institution

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

Ja Hun Kwak

Project type

Exploratory Research

High purity tungsten carbide materials with high surface area and porosity can provide technically and economically attractive alternates for platinum in an electrocatalysis. We are developing novel…

Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of Altered Micas by Ion Beam/Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB/SEM Dual Beam), µ-X-ray Diffraction, and Transmission Electron Microscopy

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Bruce Arey

Micaceous minerals such as biotite [K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi¬O10(F,OH)2] and muscovite [KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2] are ubiquitous components of detrital sediments, including the soils at the Hanford Site in…

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Field Scale Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James McKinley

Project type

Limited Scope

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL. The research proposed will resolve critical Hanford and basic subsurface science…

Hydro-Biogeochemical Process Dynamics in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

John Zachara

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL.PNNL Scientific Focus Area. The PNNL SFA will develop a predictive understanding…

Structure and property tailoring of metal nanoparticles dispersed in dielectrics by high energy ion implantation

Lead Institution

University of Tennessee

Principal Investigator

Gerd Duscher

Project type

Exploratory Research

High energy ion beam will be used to tailor structure of metal nanoparticles dispersed in dielectric medium. The typical examples are Au, Fe, Co, and Cr implanted into SrTiO3, MgO, TiO2. The…

Ecophysiological Investigation of Cyanobacteria using Controlled Cultivation

Lead Institution

J. Craig Venter Institute

Principal Investigator

Yuri Gorby

Project type

Grand Challenge

This project targets the development and operation of a fully instrumented photobioreactor that will serve to cultivate Cyanobacteria under well defined and controlled conditions. This capability…

In-situ electron microscopy and spectroscopy studies of interfaces in advanced Li-ion batteries under dynamic operation conditions

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Chongmin Wang

Repeated charging and discharging of the Li-ion battery induces microstructural evolutions both at the interface between the electrolyte and the electrode and within the electrode (active materials)…

Correlative High-Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy to Characterize the Structure and Biogeochemical Function of Microbial Biofilms

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Matthew Marshall

Project type

Exploratory Research

This proposal leverages knowledge and experience gained from DOE-funded research to elucidate the mechanisms involved in dissimilatory metal reduction, as well as, microscale imaging and analytical…

Rhizosphere Underground:
Unraveling the Role of Microbes in Stabilizing Carbon Pools in Soils

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Alice Dohnalkova

Microorganisms are fundamental to biogeochemical cycling, as microbial metabolism significantly contributes to the regulation of terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycling. However, the impact of the…

Mesopore uniformity and hydrothermal stability of silica thin films for high permeabilty applications

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xiaohong Li

Project type

Exploratory Research

Thin film OMSs were prepared using several organic templates that provide a range of ordering in the films. Results indicate that ordered mesoporous domains within the film promote uniformly thicker…

SEM-EDS Elemental Mapping of Weymouth Soils

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirk Cantrell

Project type

Exploratory Research

During operation of the former Weymouth phosphate fertilizer plant, sulfuric acid was produced to dissolve phosphate ore. The sulfuric acid was produced from Fe sulfide ore which was composed…

Functional Materials for Separation and Sensing

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jay Grate

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A large number of mission areas of the US. DOE demand functional materials that will meet the operational requirements of targeted applications. Indeed, innovative solutions to pressing national…

The Role of Microenvironments and Physicochemical Subsurface Components on Field Scale Biogeochemistry and Contaminant Mobility

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James McKinley

Project type

Exploratory Research

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL. The research proposed will resolve critical Hanford and basic subsurface science…

Use of a Focused Ion Beam for Support of LDRD on Subsampling Radioactive Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dallas Reilly

PNNL boasts state-of-the-art research capabilities, which are often underutilized on highly radioactive samples due to non-dispersion requirements and limits on sample quantity that can enter…

Evaporative Co-deposition of Fluoride Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dean Matson

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electron-beam evaporation will be used to co-deposit calcium fluoride and europium fluoride in varying proportions for application in the formation of scintillator films. The project will involve…

Determination of Cr and O diffusion coefficients in (Co,Mn)3O4 coatings for IT-SOFC Steel Interconnects

Lead Institution

Montana State University

Principal Investigator

Richard Smith

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The long term performance and performance stability of the intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFC) are closely connected to the corrosion resistance and thermal stability of the…

Advanced microstructural analysis of environmental degradation using site-specific transmission electron microscopy and atom-probe tomography

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Daniel Schreiber

Project type

Exploratory Research

Environmental degradation of Ni-based alloys continues to be a major problem in high-temperature water environments such as those found in nuclear reactors and steam generators. Despite several…

Carbon, Oxide, Metal Sequestration Mechanisms of Hot Springs Microbial Communities: Establishing a Technical Platform for Chemical Imaging Investigation

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Sherry Cady

Though microbes can indirectly and metabolically transform, sequester, and transport (i) ions, (ii) organic and inorganic complexes, and (iii) precipitates via a wide range of mechanisms,…

Routine SEM analysis of lysed Bacillus spores

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Cindy Bruckner-Lea

Project type

Exploratory Research

The research included in this proposal involves the routine SEM analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus atrophaeus spores. SEM analysis will allow us to determine the extent of physical…

Microscopic analysis of carbon-based nanomaterials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yongsoon Shin

Project type

Exploratory Research

We are synthesizing nanostructured carbon-based materials from different carbohydrate precursors, such as glucose, fructose, and their derivatives. Functional carbon spheres with core-shell…

Linking Microscopic to Macroscopic Adsorption/Desorption Behavior for Uranium on Environmental Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kevin Rosso

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This Science Theme proposal requests EMSL access for a subtask on an existing funded project at PNNL. The task is focused on determination of molecular-scale adsorption, desorption, and…

Volumetric Density of Alpha-recoil Tracks in Uranium Oxide by TEM

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Theva Thevuthasan

Considerable effort has been and is being expended to explore various avenues related to nuclear forensics, whether they are for environmental signatures, remediation, or proliferation detection and…

Hydro-Biogeochemical Process Dynamics in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

John Zachara

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL.PNNL Scientific Focus Area. The PNNL SFA will develop a predictive understanding…

SEM investigation of Thermal Barrier Coatings and ODS alloys

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Glenn Grant

Project type

Exploratory Research

We are interested in compositional and microstructural information on approximately 10 samples of Zirconia coated steel and a ferritic ODS alloy. We are also interested in high resolution SEM images…

Heavy Ion Damage in Stainless Steel Alloys

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Bruce Arey

Project type

Exploratory Research

We plan to do a series of experiments using Nickel ions, with variations in temperature and damage rate. The first year, we have a matrix of three alloys, two temperatures and four damage rate…

Catalytic Studies of Transition Metal Oxide Monolayers Supported on Metal Single Crystal Surfaces

Lead Institution

Southern Illinois University

Principal Investigator

Qingfeng Ge

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Current commercial heterogeneous catalysts are structurally and chemically complex and measurements on them can seldom be interpreted with atomic-level precision. This is especially true for…

Computational and Experimental Investigations into Ethanol and Higher (C2+) Oxygenate Synthesis from Biomass-derived Syngas Using Rh-based Catalysts

Lead Institution

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Principal Investigator

Karl Albrecht

Novel catalyst design is essential and combined experimental and theoretical/computational catalysis can provide the essential mechanisms, influence of promoters, energetics, selectivity, and…

Advanced Techniques for Nuclear Materials Characterization

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dallas Reilly

PNNL is home to state of the art research capabilities, which are often underutilized on radioactive samples due to non-dispersion requirements and limits on sample quantity that can enter workspaces…

Corrsion Film Study using XPS

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Bruce Arey

Project type

Exploratory Research

Chemical Characterization of Arrays of TiO2 Nanocolumns

Lead Institution

University of Texas at Austin

Principal Investigator

David Flaherty

Project type

Exploratory Research

We propose to study thin nano-structured films of titanium oxide, and vanadium- and nitrogen-doped titanium oxide which we will deposit by employing reactive ballistic deposition (RBD). Properly…

Characterization and method development for back-end of the line wafer processing concepts

Lead Institution

LAM Research Corporation

Principal Investigator

Diane Hymes

Project type

Exploratory Research

Advanced concepts in back end of the line (BEOL) wafer processing are necessary to push semiconductor technology beyond the 90-nm node. Characterization of chips in this regime and for these…

Development of Catalysts for the Selective Conversion of Biomass Derived Products to Fuels

Lead Institution

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Principal Investigator

Ayman Karim

The large increase in energy demand by emerging economies and the environmental concerns over the use of fossil fuels has led to the focus on renewable energy sources such as biomass. Several…

Advancing Materials for Quantum Information Science: CVD Growth and Functionalization of Graphene with Ordered Arrays of Nanodiamonds

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Marvin Warner

Quantum information science is an up and coming area of research aimed to transform computing capabilities in the future. The use of quantum bits, or qubits, in place of traditional bits is predicted…

SEM/EDS of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell seal materials

Lead Institution

US Department of Energy, Washington, DC

Principal Investigator

John Vetrano

Project type

Exploratory Research

The purpose of proposal is to examine the surface topography and composition of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) seal assemblies. These assemblies have been produced and then tested. We want to…

Structure-Property Relationships in Thin Film Energy Conversion Materials and Coatings

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dean Matson

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to use of EMSL surface analysis, electron microscopy, laser spectroscopy and other analytical capabilities to characterize nanoscale organic and inorganic materials and hybrid thin film…

Characterization and method development for back-end of the line wafer processing concepts

Lead Institution

LAM Research Corporation

Principal Investigator

Diane Hymes

Project type

Exploratory Research

Advanced concepts in back end of the line (BEOL) wafer processing are necessary to push semiconductor technology beyond the 90-nm node. Characterization of chips in this regime and for these…

Advanced microstructural analyses of materials degradation and atomic transport in extreme environments

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Daniel Schreiber

Environmental degradation is a major problem in high-temperature water environments such as those found in nuclear reactors and other forms of steam generator and high-temperature turbine…

Helium Ion Lithography on Quantum Computing Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Bruce Arey

A SQUID array (SQA) is a single electrical circuit on a chip composed of many individual SQUID loops connected in one- or two-dimensional (series, parallel, or series-parallel) configurations…

Characterization of Functional Nanoscale Materials for Vapor Sensing

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christopher Aardahl

Project type

Exploratory Research

Materials will be characterized in a variety of configurations including powders, pelletized beds, and thin films. These will generally be coupled to acoustic sensors for characterization as vapor…

Evaluation of multicomponent proous oxide films

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xiaohong Li

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective is to understand processing-microstructure relationships in multicomponent oxide films prepared by evaporative deposition of solution precursors

Spin Torque Effects in Multilayer Spin Valve with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Kannan Krishnan

Project type

Exploratory Research

The proposed research project is directed at the study of spin torque effects in multilayer spin valves with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Such devices have a potential for higher bit density on…

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Subsurface Reactive Contaminant Transport

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James McKinley

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL. The research proposed will resolve critical Hanford and basic subsurface science…

Advancing Materials for Quantum Information Science: CVD Growth and Functionalization of Graphene with Ordered Arrays of Nanodiamonds

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Marvin Warner

Quantum information science is an up and coming area of research aimed to transform computing capabilities in the future. The use of quantum bits, or qubits, in place of traditional bits is predicted…

Novel biosensor based on nanomaterials (Scope # 45409)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Guodong Liu

Project type

Exploratory Research

Carbon nanotube and polypyrrole will be used to prepare novel enzyme and immunosensor. The structure of electrode surface will be studied using SEM, TEM.

Hydrogen Production-(Steam Reforming of hydrocarbons including methane, propane, gasoline, jet fuel and biomass derived products)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Robert Dagle

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Hydrogen Production-(Steam Reforming of hydrocarbons including methane, propane, gasoline, jet fuel and biomass derived products)

DC-1 Molecular & Bio imprinting

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xiaohong Li

Project type

Exploratory Research

Employ whole cells (bacterial) as templates to create complementary polymer surface. Prepare polymer beads with spatially-defined, highly functional patches of size and shape corresponding exactly…

The Role of Interfacial Water on Mineral Transformations in Wet Supercritical CO2

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Andrew Felmy

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose a comprehensive experimental and theoretical investigation of the molecular mechanisms governing the role of interfacial water in the reactivity of mineral phases in supercritical carbon…

Carbon Sequestration Beneath the Active Zone of the Rhizosphere: Insights from Extremophile Ecosystems

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Sherry Cady

To better understand the ultimate fate of carbon sequestered in the subsurface, we are studying carbon sequestration mechanisms in mineralizing extremophile environments. Such ecosystems provide an…

Molecularly Organized Nanostructural Materials (Greg Exarhos's BES Project - 12152)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yongsoon Shin

Project type

Exploratory Research

Molecularly Organized Nanostructural Materials - Materials synthesis approaches are designed to achieve targeted nanoarchitectures through control of chemical reactivity at interfaces. Molecular…

Biological Templates f or Synthesis of Ordered Ceramic Nanostructures

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yongsoon Shin

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The synthesis of nano-architectured materials continues to be an evolving research area in nanoscience and nanotechnology because structural complexity enables often unexpected physical and chemical…

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