Projects

Development of Catalysts for the Selective Conversion of Biomass Derived Products to Fuels or Hydrogen

Lead Institution

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Principal Investigator

Ayman Karim

Project type

Exploratory Research

The large increase in energy demand by emerging economies and the environmental concerns over the use of fossil fuels has led to the focus on renewable energy sources such as biomass. Several…

A Systems Biology Approach to Infectious Diseases Research

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Joshua Adkins

Project type

Exploratory Research

We describe an integrated program for coupling advanced capabilities in high-throughput transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics with a comprehensive informatics infrastructure and a…

High Resolution 1H NMR Metabolomics Using Slow and Fast Magic Angle Spinning

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jian-zhi Hu

Project type

Exploratory Research

We propose to develop both slow and fast magic angle sample spinning NMR methods that is capable of high resolution and high sensitivity metabolic profiling on biological samples, in particular…

Spectroscopic and ultrafast dynamics study of poly (3-hexylthiophene) in organic solar cell doped with graphene oxide

Lead Institution

University of Alabama

Principal Investigator

Shanlin Pan

Project type

Exploratory Research

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices have been studied extensively and promise to be efficient and cheap devices to convert solar energy in comparison with their inorganic counterparts. We request the…

Chemistry and Microphysics of Small Particles

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Alla Zelenyuk-Imre

Project type

Exploratory Research

This research is focused on the development and application of unique tools and methods to study the fundamental properties and processes that govern the chemistry and microphysics of particles at…

Structure and reactivity of thin aqueous films

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Gregory Kimmel

Project type

Exploratory Research

Energetic processes at surfaces and interfaces are important in fields such as radiation chemistry, radiation biology, waste processing, and advanced materials synthesis. Low-energy electrons (&lt…

Interactive Effect of Erosion and Fire History on Stability of Soil Organic Matter

Lead Institution

University of California, Merced

Principal Investigator

Asmeret Berhe

Project type

Exploratory Research

The proposed research aims to use 13C-NMR spectroscopy to determine the amount of black carbon (BC) present in soil and to study the biochemical composition of soil organic matter (SOM) to answer…

Radiation-induced Property Changes in Magnetic Materials

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

John McCloy

Project type

Exploratory Research

The execution of this proposal will advance the state of science regarding the effects of ionizing radiation on the magnetic structure of nanoparticle, granular nanocluster film, and spin glass…

Template Synthesis of Ordered Nanostructured Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yongsoon Shin

Project type

Exploratory Research

Both porous and anisotropic nanoarchitectures are generated using an array of solution templated growth and post growth modification approaches that invoke chemical control of molecular self-assembly…

Atomistic Mechanisms of Radiation Interaction with Nanostructured Ceramics

Lead Institution

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Principal Investigator

Jie Lian

Project type

Exploratory Research

This EMSL user proposal aims to elucidate atomistic mechanisms of radiation interaction at the nanoscale in order to achieve a scientific understanding of the synergistic effects of temperature and…

Interfacial Properties of Ion-Irradiated SiC/C and SiC/Si Composites

Lead Institution

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Principal Investigator

Yiguang Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

Disordering behavior of silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics under irradiation has attracted extensive studies due to its great potential for applications in nuclear industry. SiC has been considered as a…

Theoretical Studies of Enhanced Optical Properties of Molecule-Metal Clusters

Lead Institution

Pennsylvania State University

Principal Investigator

Lasse Jensen

Project type

Exploratory Research

The interactions between molecules and metal clusters often lead to new enhanced optical properties which are of great interest for chemical and biological sensing. Understanding the optical…

Cluster Model Studies of Condensed Phase Phenomena Using Temperature-Controlled Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xuebin Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

This program is aimed at obtaining a microscopic understanding of solution chemistry and solvation of negatively charged ions using cluster models in the gas phase. Our primary experimental technique…

Optical and structural properties of doped ZnO nanocrystals

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Matthew Mccluskey

Project type

Exploratory Research

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for energy applications. With a direct gap of 3.4 eV at room temperature, ZnO is a wide band gap…

Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) in the Ambient Atmosphere: Molecular Level Analysis of Size Resolved SOA Samples Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry.

Lead Institution

University of California, Berkeley

Principal Investigator

Allen Goldstein

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of our research is to study the fundamental chemistry in the formation and aging of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in the atmosphere. A large fraction of SOA has been shown to be…

Role of metal nanoparticles and patterned composites on enhancing electrical trace gas sensing

Lead Institution

University of Texas at Dallas

Principal Investigator

Shalini Prasad

Project type

Exploratory Research

This proposal seeks to utilize the fabrication and characterization resources at EMSL under the general proposal category for understanding the role of metal nanoparticles in patterned composites in…

Atomic and electronic structures of interfaces of complex oxides: insight from ab initio calculations

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Petr Sushko

Project type

Exploratory Research

Oxide interfaces, superlattices and solid solutions provide opportunities for generating materials with novel properties. A critical issue is to control the quality of the interfaces and atom…

Exploring the Radiation Damage Resistance of Nanoscale Interfaces

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Richard Kurtz

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of this research is to rigorously test the hypothesis that internal interfaces can be manipulated at the nanoscale to enhance recombination of radiation-produced defects to dramatically…

Role of Microenvironments and Transition Zones in Field scale microbial ecology and biogeochemistry

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James McKinley

Project type

Exploratory Research

This is a renewal proposal for a previous collaborative effort between the PNNL Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and EMSL. The research proposed will resolve critical Hanford and basic subsurface science…

Title: The Aspergillus fumigatus proteome during early stages of mammalian lung infection.

Lead Institution

J. Craig Venter Institute

Principal Investigator

Rembert Pieper

Project type

Exploratory Research

Overview- The analysis of the Aspergillus fumigatus proteome is of major interest for the research community working on diseases caused by Aspergilli. This planned research will lead to benefits in…