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As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. 

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™ 

 

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Structural characterization of Nanoporous Thin Films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
The adsorptive/reactive properties of nanoporous thin films of metals and oxides grown via ballistic deposition technique are being studied in our laboratory. We propose to utilize a variety of ex…

Chemical Characterization of Heterogeneous Inclusions in Soot Particles

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Hai Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the work proposed herein is to characterize the heterogeneous inclusions and their influence on the hydroscopic properties of Diesel and laboratory-generated soot. Laboratory soot…

Surface Studies of Electroctalysts in Methanol Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
Neah Power Systems
Principal Investigator
Kwang Kim
Project type
Exploratory Research
Neah Power Systems is developing small methanol fuel cells based upon a silicon architecture for mobile electronics such as laptop computers and PDAs. Neah's silicon architecture is expected to…

Passive Film Stability in Alloy 22

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
This program activity will involve the testing of Haynes Alloy 22 to determine if a build up of S will lead to the breakdown of a possive film. This is among the most stable alloys known and it is…

Microcharacterization of Engineered Mono-Sodium Titanate

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edgar Buck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mono-sodium titanate (MST) is being developed by the DOE for removal of strontium and plutonium from high salt wastes. This study looks at the chemical behavior of MST in the presence of special…

Acid vapor weathering of Mars analog surface materials

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose an experimental study of weathering by volcanic acid gases under Mars-like atmospheric conditions on terrestrial analogs to Martian minerals and rocks. We intend to characterize acidic…

Characterization of nanostructured ceramics

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Susmita Bose
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanostructured calcium phosphates, titanium dioxide and lead zirconate titanate ceramics will be characterized using field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). This ceramics were…

Computational Investigation of Acid Base, Surface Complexation, and Oxidation/Reduction Reaction Mechanisms on Iron Oxide and Iron Silicate Surfaces (Felmy Rustad BES, PNNL SCOPE #22130).

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Andrew Felmy
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project is directed at providing a molecular scale understanding of surface complexation reactions occurring at oxide, oxyhydroxide, and silicate mineral surfaces through the use of molecular…

Chalcogenide Surface Science

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Chalcogenide nanowires have been observed to form on soda lime glass and fused quartz substrates. These materials have potential application for analytical and photonic devices. Further research is…

Hydrogenation of pyrolysis oils to create gasoline.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pyrolysis Oil to Gasoline Introduction In the DOE report "Opportunities for Biorenewables in Oil Refineries," refined pyrolysis oils were shown to have the potential to replace a…

Characterization of Lithium Aluminate Powders

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Enriched lithium aluminate powders have been commercially produced for high-yield, high-through-put, dry press preparation of low temperature sintered pellets. These pellets are used for the tritium…

Proteomic Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans Under Oxidative StressIrradiation

Lead Institution
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Principal Investigator
Michael Daly
Project type
Exploratory Research
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive extremely high doses of gamma-radiation and we have recently shown that high intracellular concentrations of Mn(II) facilitate resistance by…

Neuro-Linguistic Progranning History

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this project, I will be providing 3-D animation in support of a video production, that deals with the topic of behavioral linguistic programming.