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As a scientific user facility, EMSL provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current user projects, visit EMSL's Science Central.

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The role of U(V) during heterogeneous reduction of aqueous U(VI) to U(IV).

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eugene Ilton
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is being submitted in response to the Science theme call: Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science, understanding the chemistry of radionuclides in the subsurface. It directly relates to…

WSU Tri-Cities Electron Microscopy Course

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edgar Buck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron Microscopy (EM) has long been an important experimental tool in materials science, biological sciences, and geosciences. At PNNL, electron microscopes, both SEM and TEM, are used in nearly…

Europium Uptake in Various SAM Coated Mesoporous Silica

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Bays
Project type
Exploratory Research
A variety of self assembled monolayers (SAM) may be applied to mesoporous silica substrates. These SAMs may bind europium or other lanthanides from solution. It is important to quantify the…

TRLIF Studies of Eu(III) Sorption to Quartz and Uranophane

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Aurora Clark
Project type
Exploratory Research
To complement and provide much needed experimental benchmarks to ongoing computational studies at the EMSL supercomputing facility, we propose to use four weeks of time at the facilities at EMSL to…

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kyle Alvine
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to use the world-class ion scattering facilities at EMSL to advance the understanding of the effects of high-pressure hydrogen on nanolaminate low friction coatings and piezoelectric…

Mass spectrometry analysis of nucleotides/nucleosides

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Kathleen McAteer
Project type
Exploratory Research
We wish to synthesize a number of specifically-labeled DNA oligomers that will be valuable in characterizing the structure and dynamics of damaged DNAs. In order to do this we will isolate 13C and…

Dopamine Replacement Therapy and Parkinson's Disease

Lead Institution
Uppsala University
Principal Investigator
Malin Andersson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dopamine (DA) replacement therapy with L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) is currently the most efficient pharmacotherapy for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), but with disease…

Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases - Year III

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
New medicines are urgently needed against infectious diseases that are becoming increasingly more resistant to current therapies. The strategy being used by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to…

Enamel biomineralization: Solution- and solid-state NMR

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dental enamel, the layer of elongated carbonated hydroxyapatite on the outer layer of the tooth, is the hardest tissue in the human body. It needs to be strong because it cannot repair itself nor can…

Multi-Resolution Structure and Reactivity of Kinetically
Roughened Oxide Surfaces: Nanometric Scaling Behavior
and Molecular-Scale Controls (Rosso BES,PNNL Scope #43862. Rosso BES)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Rosso
Project type
Exploratory Research
Surfaces of Fe oxides, Mn oxides and Si oxides (quartz) minerals in natural settings exhibit a significant degree of morphological heterogeneity on scales from 1-1000 nm. Surface roughness and its…

Exploring the processes that control uranyl reduction by magnetite and the growth of nanoparticulate surface precipitates by X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glenn Waychunas
Project type
Exploratory Research
Uranium (U) has been released into the environment through mining operations, nuclear testing, and accidental spills, and is a contaminant in soils, sediments and groundwater at 70% of the Department…