Projects

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.™

Advanced Diffusion Barrier Materials for Copper Metallization of Integrated Circuits

Lead Institution

Johnson Matthey Electronics

Principal Investigator

Hinrich Hargarter

Project type

Exploratory Research

Demonstration of LEO 982 Scanning Electron Microscope

Lead Institution

Kansas State University

Principal Investigator

James Edgar

Project type

Exploratory Research

Structual and compositional analysis of gallium nitride and aluminum nitride

Lead Institution

Kansas State University

Principal Investigator

James Edgar

Project type

Exploratory Research

The Study of Atomic Gold Clusters in Polyaniline (Summer Research Institute, PNNL Scope #16248)

Lead Institution

Georgia Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Amir Saheb

Project type

Exploratory Research

Previous reserch done in our Group in collaboration with the PNNL scientists, Don Baer and Mark Engelhard, has shown that polyaniline (PANI) can be used as a matrix for formation of Au clusters. By a…

Molecular Simulations of Complex Fluids in Confined Geometries

Lead Institution

Kansas State University

Principal Investigator

Shaoyi Jiang

Project type

Exploratory Research

Surface chemistry and structure of oxides

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Charles Fadley

Project type

Exploratory Research

Using Paramagnetic Lanthanide (lll) and Transition-Metal Probes.

Lead Institution

Millenium Inorganic Chemicals

Principal Investigator

Thomas Brewer

Project type

Exploratory Research

Functional pathway tracing

Lead Institution

Molecular Research Institute

Principal Investigator

Roger Brent

Project type

Exploratory Research

The characterization of a pure chitin thin film that is used to determine the fate of marine bacteria associated with this fraction of the particulate organic matter pool.

Lead Institution

Montana State University

Principal Investigator

Ace Baty

Project type

Exploratory Research

MOCVD of (Ba,Sr)Ti03 Thin Films

Lead Institution

Motorola

Principal Investigator

Prasad Alluri

Project type

Exploratory Research

Secondary Electron Yield from Ceramics

Lead Institution

Westminster College

Principal Investigator

Peter Smith

Project type

Exploratory Research

MOCVD growth of BST Thin Films

Lead Institution

Motorola

Principal Investigator

Prasad Alluri

Project type

Exploratory Research

High Resolution IR spectorscopy of

Lead Institution

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Principal Investigator

Walter Lafferty

Project type

Exploratory Research

Identification of protein components of vaccinia virus particles

Lead Institution

National Institutes of Health

Principal Investigator

Bernard Moss

Project type

Exploratory Research

Vaccinia virus, the prototype member of the poxvirus family, is predicted to encode nearly 200 proteins. The infectious particle has a complex structure consisting of a lipoprotein membrane…

The Reduction of Uranyl and Chromate to Insoluble Species by Green Rust and Other Ferrous Hydroxides Surfaces

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Principal Investigator

Martin Schoonen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electron transfer reactions play an important role in the determination of the fate of many environmental contaminants. Of particular importance are the transitions from high-oxidation states (+5/+6)…

Study of Some Specific Inclusions in a Garnet Matrix Using High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM)

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Maxime Guinel

Project type

Exploratory Research

Proposal for use of the High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM) at the EMSL, PNNL. The host will be Dr. Chongmin Wang. We propose (Dr M. Grant Norton and Maxime Guinel, from…