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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 bacterial nanowires

Lead Institution
J. Craig Venter Institute
Principal Investigator
Yuri Gorby
Project type
Exploratory Research
Scanning tunneling microscopy will be used to image and characterize bacterial appendages produced by iron reducing bacteria that are believed to be involved with the extracellular reduction of iron…

A combined approach for protein structure prediction

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Silvia Crivelli
Project type
Exploratory Research
The protein structure prediction is one of the grand challenges in modern science. The problem consists of determining the tertiary structure of a protein given its primary sequence of amino acids…

A combined approach for protein structure prediction and protein-protein docking

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Silvia Crivelli
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mapping the network of protein interactions in the cells of living organisms is an intriguing puzzle that we are just beginning to understand with the knowledge of completed genomes. Predicting the…

Soft Lithography for Optics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
The method of soft lithography will be applied to fabrication of absorptive optical filters.

Nanomaterial toxicology

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
The immense excitement created by the developing ability to manipulate many physical and chemical properties of nanoscale objects also raises question of nanomaterial toxicity. In contrast to well…

Phosphorous poisoning of automotive catalysts

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bruce Bunting
Project type
Exploratory Research
Phosphorous is contained in lube oil in the form of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate. Although progress has been made in reducing the total phosphorous in lube oil, it appears that it can not be…

Surface area measurements

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
We need access to the BET to determine the surface area of synthesized hydroxyapatite. The hydroxyapatite will be used to bind peptides and proteins relevant to biomineralization. Functional and…

Radiation Detection Portals for Border Security

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Radiation Detection Portal Project at PNNL is in need of various media elements to describe to Port Stake Holders what the project is all about. I propose to use the EMSL Graphics lab to build…

Radiation Detection Portals for Border Security

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Radiation Detection Portal Project at PNNL is in need of various media elements to describe to Port Stake Holders what the project is all about. I propose to use the EMSL Graphics lab to build…

Multimedia for Investigator Training

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I am developing interactive virtual tours for use in various training modules to be used by DOE Investigators. I would like to use the animation software at the EMSL Graphics lab to accomplish this…

Aerosol Model Data Storage

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Ghan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Beowulf1 is being retired, so we need about 200 Gb of backed-up disk space to store data. no significant cpu cycles are needed.