Bruce Arey

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…

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Subsurface Reactive Contaminant Transport

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James McKinley

Project type

Exploratory Research

The PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) will resolve critical Hanford and basic subsurface science issues through integrated, multi-disciplinary, science-theme focused research on the role of…

Biomineralization and Biosequestration Mechanisms at Life's Upper Temperatures: A Reappraisal using Novel CryoEM Techniques

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,…

Performance Prediction and Process Attribution for Additive Manufacturing

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christopher Barrett

The proposed work seeks to develop a modeling-prescribed measurement strategy to generate the data necessary to build a finite element model from which an additively manufactured objects’ performance…

EMSL Science Overview

Bruce Arey

Projects

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

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

Advanced Techniques for Nuclear Materials Characterization

Corrsion Film Study using XPS

Chemical Characterization of Arrays of TiO2 Nanocolumns

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

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

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

SEM/EDS of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell seal materials

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

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

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

Helium Ion Lithography on Quantum Computing Materials

Characterization of Functional Nanoscale Materials for Vapor Sensing

Evaluation of multicomponent proous oxide films

Spin Torque Effects in Multilayer Spin Valve with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Subsurface Reactive Contaminant Transport

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

Novel biosensor based on nanomaterials (Scope # 45409)

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

DC-1 Molecular & Bio imprinting

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

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

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

Biological Templates f or Synthesis of Ordered Ceramic Nanostructures

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Subsurface Reactive Contaminant Transport

Biomineralization and Biosequestration Mechanisms at Life's Upper Temperatures: A Reappraisal using Novel CryoEM Techniques

Performance Prediction and Process Attribution for Additive Manufacturing