Hongfei Wang | Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Molecular Structure and Interaction at Aqueous, Non-Aqueous Liquid Interfaces and Catalytic Solid Surfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

With the development of surface nonlinear spectroscopy in the last two decades, it is now possible to interrogate the molecular details of the structure and interactions at molecular interfaces. This…

Unraveling New Pathways for Carbon Capture to Enhance Lipid-Biomass Feedstocks

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James Evans

Organisms have evolved a number of spatially localized processes to efficiently break down, absorb, and use necessary metabolites. Although progress has been made in identifying the genes that are…

Quantitative Characterization of Biomass Deconstruction

Lead Institution

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Principal Investigator

Bin Yang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of this research is to apply advanced characterization techniques to gain a deeper understanding of lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels. The proposed research will take…

Structure and Chemistry at the Buried Solid/Aqueous Solution Interfaces with Advanced Surface Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

Solid/aqueous solution interface are ubiquitous and important in energy and environmental research. We propose to investigate benchmark systems in the interface sciences to find novel applications of…

Sorption of aqueous organic molecules and amino acids on mineral surfaces: determination of binding geometry, local water structure and topological interactions

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Glenn Waychunas

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A large frontier in geochemistry is the interaction of organic species with mineral surfaces. Compared to inorganic sorbates which form covalent and hydrogen bonds, organic structures may have…

The Transformation of Tetrahedral to Octahedral Coordination in Anions of Interest in High-Level Tank Waste

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jian-zhi Hu

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Raman and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in combination with computational modeling to study the conversion of soluble tetrahedral…

Molecular Structure and Interaction at Aqueous, Non-Aqueous Liquid Interfaces and Catalytic Solid Surfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

With the development of surface nonlinear spectroscopy in the last two decades, it is now possible to interrogate the molecular details of the structure and interactions at molecular interfaces. This…

Controls of bioorganic constituents of soils in the confined regions between mineral surfaces on nucleation and aggregation

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James De Yoreo

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The aims of the proposed research are to: 1) Determine the structure of the near surface water layer in the confined region between approaching mineral surfaces and determine the impact of…

Investigating the interactions between linker and drug molecules and nanocrystalline surface along with cytotoxicity measurements

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Theva Thevuthasan

Identifying and synthesizing a target specific and controlled release nanoparticle based drug delivery system (DDS) provides a great potential to overcome the barriers facing existing cancer therapy…

High-Resolution Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy
Capability Development Project WBS

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

The objective of this WBS element is to further develop experimental and user service capability to perform surface nonlinear spectroscopy and dynamics measurements with both high spectral resolution…

Probing Particle Mediated Growth: Towards a Predictive Understanding of Self-Assembly for Energy Applications

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kevin Rosso

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This Science Theme proposal aims at developing a fundamental understanding of forces between nanoparticles in aqueous solution that underpin self-assembly of materials by oriented aggregation. This…

Cooperative Interactions of Marine Macromolecules at the Air-Water Interface

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Philip Rasch

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles formed from bubbles bursting at the ocean surface contain a large fraction of organic matter. The presence of this organic matter is driven by the adsorption of…

Sea spray aerosol: Composition, formation, evolution and properties

Lead Institution

University of Iowa

Principal Investigator

Vicki Grassian

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Here we propose to use the Department of Energy's EMSL facility to study the chemical composition and heterogeneous chemistry of sea spray aerosol which is a complex mixture of salt, biological…

Molecular Structure and Interaction at Model Atmospheric, Geological and Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

We propose to use SFG-VS to study the vibrational spectroscopy at aqueous and non-aqueous solution surfaces, aqueous solution/oxides surfaces and interfaces of model molecular systems that is related…

Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy Characterizing Model Atmospheric, Geological, Environmental, and Biological Surfaces and Interfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

We propose to use SFG-VS to study the vibrational spectroscopy at aqueous and non-aqueous solution surfaces, aqueous solution/oxides surfaces and interfaces of model molecular systems that is related…

Advancing Heterogeneous Catalysis of Routes for the Conversion of Complex Biogenic Feedstocks in Aqueous and Apolar Solvents

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Donald Camaioni

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This proposal aims to provide molecular insight into elementary reaction steps and their kinetics in condensed phases at an atomic and molecular level, which rivals the currently possible insight…

Probing the Vibrational Coherences of Organic Atmospheric Aerosol Systems

Lead Institution

Northwestern University

Principal Investigator

Franz Geiger

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This proposal focuses on applying EMSL’s sub-1cm-1-resolution vibrational spectroscopy (hr-SFG) capabilities (Hongfei Wang), solid state NMR spectroscopy (Nancy Washton), nano-DESI high-resolution…

Molecular-scale visualization of ligand conformation on functionalized nanoparticles: A combination of experimental and theoretical studies

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Theva Thevuthasan

The goal of this project is to develop capabilities that will advance the fundamental understanding of the interaction between the nanoparticles surfaces and organic ligand molecules as applicable to…

Understand the Structure Evolution and Solid-Liquid Interface of Electrode Materials in Advanced Li-/Na-ion Batteries and the Effect on Battery Performance

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xiaolin Li

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The overall goal of this proposal is to investigate the structure evolution and solid-liquid interface of advanced battery materials by integrated ex-situ or in-situ characterization and theoretical…

Molecular Structure and Interaction at Aqueous, Non-Aqueous Liquid Interfaces and Catalytic Solid Surfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

With the development of surface nonlinear spectroscopy in the last two decades, it is now possible to interrogate the molecular details of the structure and interactions at molecular interfaces. This…

Exploring Novel Applications of Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy in Characterizing Model Atmospheric, Geological, Environmental, and Biological Surfaces and Interfaces

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

We propose to investigate benchmark systems in the interface sciences to find novel applications of EMSL's unique surface spectroscopy and dynamics capability and platform, especially the newly…

Molecular Interactions and Dynamics at Solid Electrolyte Interfaces

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Binghamton

Principal Investigator

Howard Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We will carry out a systematic study on molecular interactions and dynamics at solid electrolyte interfaces (SEIs) of Li-ion batteries using primarily in situ quantitative nonlinear optical…

The Organic Surfactant Pool on Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles

Lead Institution

Northwestern University

Principal Investigator

Franz Geiger

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles particles rank among the least understood atmospheric constituents in the climate system. Key questions concern their poorly quantified roles in cloud…

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