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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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TGA/DSC Analysis of Anhydrosugar Samples

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Johnathan Holladay
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of our ongoing DOE EE/RE project directed toward developing a continuous process for the production of isosorbide from sugar we need to develop a rapid and accurate method for determining…

New Technologies for Reduction of Automobile Exhaust Emissions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Peden
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a non-thermal plasma in conjunction with catalytic materials to mediate exhaust gas emissions from diesel fueled light duty compression…

Silicon Nanotips for Enhanced Electron Emission

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
The EMSL microfabrication capabilities will be used to create wafers covered with pyramidal nanotips. These surfaces will be tested elsewhere for electron emission.

Inelastic Electron Scattering Cross Section Measurements in Liquid Water

Lead Institution
Wadsworth Center
Principal Investigator
Craig Brown
Project type
Exploratory Research
The primary objective of this work is to measure inelastic electron scattering cross sections as a function of energy and angle in liquid water in the energy range of 30 keV. The short term goal…

Highly Selective Monolayer Sorbents for Advanced Analytical Applications

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Bays
Project type
Exploratory Research
Molecular templating of self-assembled monolayers on a mesoporous silica may be used for highly selective detection of relatively small molecules. By using different templating processes and a…

Dynamics studies of surface-induced dissociation of polyatomic
ions

Lead Institution
Office of Fellowship Program
Principal Investigator
Talayeh Rezayat
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ion- surface collisions have long been used for surface characterization and have recently been extended to the analysis of projectile ions as well via their dissociations on surface impact,…

Electron Induced Genomic Instability

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
William Morgan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron induced genomic instability will be investigated using the PNNL microbeam and cho transfected gfp reporter constructs.

Regional Scale Atmospheric Modeling

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jerome Fast
Project type
Exploratory Research
To study metrological and atmospheric chemistry modeling for DOE-BER atmospheric science projects including DOE atmospheric chemistry program and vertical transport and mixing program. Test and…

Triplet Decay Pathways of the Electrically Conducting Polymer Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene]

Lead Institution
Central Washington University
Principal Investigator
David Laman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) is an electrically conductive polymer that is under active investigation for use as a photoinduced electron transfer donor in…

The chemistry and mineralogy of variable charge soils

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nikolla Qafoku
Project type
Exploratory Research
I received an invitation to write a review paper (chapter) for the Journal: Advances in Agronomy, which is a well established and highly regarded serial publication (ranked #1 in Agriculture). In…

Rapidly Deployable Sensor Network

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Elizabeth Jurrus
Project type
Exploratory Research
Project Background Emerging networking technology provides unique opportunities for the rapid deployment and operation of clusters of sensor systems. The Rapidly Deployable Sensor Network (RDSN)…

Low Energy Sputtering Experiments using RBS

Lead Institution
NASA Glenn Research Center
Principal Investigator
Michael Nakles
Project type
Exploratory Research
The recent successful demonstration of the NASA Solar electric propulsion Technology Application Readiness (NSTAR) ion thruster on the Deep Space 1 mission has paved the way for future electrostatic…

Proteomics of Morphology Determination in a Fungus

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Lasure
Project type
Exploratory Research
The white rot fungus, Phanerochaete crysosporium, is a saprophytic organism isolated from decaying wood chips. It is one of few organisms that produce ligninase enzymes. These enzymes are required…