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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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Conductivity of functionalized carbon nanotube films

Lead Institution
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Principal Investigator
Rafail Khairoutdinov
Project type
Exploratory Research
One focal point in advanced materials research has been the use of integrated molecular systems to accomplish specific tasks. The unique mechanical, optical, and electronic characteristics of…

Study the ZnO/CIGSS junction by XPS

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Sambhu Kundu
Project type
Exploratory Research
The solar cells degrade under high humidity. We will test a bare circuit and a stressed cell gone 1000 hours at 60C/90RH test. After 1000 hours of testing the bare circuit shows almost ?0? efficiency…

Characterization of nanostructed gas sorbents by TPD/FTIR measurements

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Feng Zheng
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project directly supports DOE's environmental mission areas in the CO2 emission control. Novel sorbent materials are synthesized by grafting amine functional groups to a variety of…

Development of Multi-Functional Microscopy (MFM) for Cancer and AIDS Research

Lead Institution
National Cancer Institute - Frederick
Principal Investigator
Stephen Lockett
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal of this project is to advance technology for studying complex molecular mechanisms at the cell and tissue levels. Such mechanisms underlie the processes of carcinogenesis, HIV infection and…

Interfacial Reduction-Oxidation Mechanisms (PNNL SCOPE # 45454)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edward Thornton
Project type
Exploratory Research
: Total and inorganic C measurements are needed on four Cr(VI)-contaminated Hanford soils to help interpret the Cr(VI) extraction results we obtained earlier. Location of Cr(VI) in the interstitial…

How Aluminum Substitution in Goethite affects Iron Release

Lead Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator
Javiera Cervini-silva
Project type
Exploratory Research
Goethite formed in terrestrial weathering environments often exhibit Al substitution for Fe, [Fe1-xAlxOOH] and can vary in Al content from x < 0.15 in hydromorphic environments to a maximum of x…

Develop Stable Bipolar Membranes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jagannadha Bontha
Project type
Exploratory Research
The specific aim of this research is to develop a nano-templating approach to convert a host cation exchange membrane into bipolar membranes.

Studies of Detector Surfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Barinaga
Project type
Exploratory Research
We plan to study new designs and materials for mass spectrometer detector parts using surface analysis methods. One goal is to understand the relationship between detector anode design, materials and…

OptoMagnetic Flowcell

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
Microfabricate flowcell by EpoMEMS process.

Characterization of sputter deposited Co doped TiO2 films

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Kelli Griffin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sputter deposited Co:TiO2 films are of interest as part of the joint NSF Oxide Spintronics project between UW and PNNL. The films were sputtered onto LaAlO3 substrates, and have shown enhanced…

Atomically Resolved Studies of Transition Metal Oxides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
STM and AFM studies will be conducted on surfaces of small crystalline domains and epitaxially grown thin TMO films such as γ-WO3(001), TiO2(110), and V2O5/TiO2(110). Such studies give…

Hydrogen storage of chemical hydrides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
Study the hydrogen storage capability of some chemical hydrides, including NH3-BH3 doped materials, and NaLiH4 doped materials. The study will be carried out using the RXM-100 system, to measure…

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Barbara Tarasevich
Project type
Exploratory Research
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy will be performed on conducting polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrole, polymer-mesoporous silica composites, and ammonium borane-mesoporous silica composites. …