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Eric Walter

Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Projects

Optical and structural properties of doped ZnO nanocrystals

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Matthew Mccluskey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for energy applications. With a direct gap of 3.4 eV at room temperature, ZnO is a wide band gap…

Metal Binding by Melanin Biopolymers

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Walter
The ubiquitous biopolymer melanin has important and unique materials properties, yet these very properties have prevented elucidation of its basic structure. MAS-NMR capabilities at EMSL will probe…