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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. 

Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Sulfur absorbents for emission control

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to develop basic understandings for high capacity sulfur absorbents for emission control/

XRD Analysis of Mineral Sample

Lead Institution
Columbia Gem & Jewelry
Principal Investigator
Vincent Rundhaug
Project type
Exploratory Research
A mineral sample from a mining operation initially assayed with exceptional quantities of the platinum metals group. Some samples exhibit some type of surface vapor deposition. Requesting XRD for…

Biogeochemical Heterogeneity in the Subsurface (Long, PNNL scope #16259)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tom Resch
Project type
Exploratory Research
I need the ion chromatograph for analysis of the injection and calibration solutions for a field bioremediation experiment taking place in Rifle, CO. The injection samples were from the acetate…

Intermediate Flow Cells (PNNL SCOPE #28662)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tom Resch
Project type
Exploratory Research
I need the ion chromatograph for analysis of solutions of an intermediate-scale flow cell bio-stimulation experiment. The experiment used porous sand media with lenticular shaped inclusions of…

The synthesis of Au nanoclusters

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Hai-Feng Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The synthesis of the Au clusters with varieties of ligand attracted great attentions from chemist and materials scientist in decades. The discovery of the Au catalyst stimulated a great deal of…

A proteomic approach to the study of Neurospora crassa ribosomal dynamics

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Baker
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to apply the LC/MS/MS global proteomics approach to study eukaryotic ribosome dynamics using the model filamentous fungal organism, Neurospora crassa. The experimental tractability and…

Proteomic analysis of Fusarium graminearum sexual development

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Baker
Project type
Exploratory Research
Fusarium graminearum is a major pathogen and the cause of mycotoxin contamination of cereal crops including corn, wheat and barley. The economic impact of F. graminearum infection of these crops is…

Advanced Sorbent Deployment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I am supporting PNNL researcher Shas Mittigod and his project dealing with Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Silica (SAMMS) I will be creating animation and graphics to be included in his…

Proteomics of Membrane Protein Complexes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Diana Bigelow
Project type
Exploratory Research
A comprehensive understanding of the effects of cellular stress on calcium signaling requires correlated measurements of intracellular calcium transients and global proteomic analysis of both calcium…

Computational study of protein-protein interaction dynamics

Lead Institution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Principal Investigator
Jin Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Protein-protein interactions are extremely important and complex in living cells. Studying the dynamical processes of protein-protein interactions is crucial for uncovering the fundamental…

Development of a Soldier-Portable Power System

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Daniel Palo
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ongoing work in support of a joint Army/Navy funded project to develop a hydrocarbon-fueled fuel cell power system. Work includes catalyst development, device fabrication and demonstration, and…

SEM Characterization of Proposed Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Larry Thomas
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Leo 982 field-emission SEM at EMSL will be used for microscopic and elemental characterization of sodium-aluminate alanate or similar material being studied for as a hydrogen storage medium. An…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

Investigation of elemental contamination in solid oxide fuel cell materials.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vincent Sprenkle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Goal of this work is to investigate the role of contaminants in fuel cell materials through high resolution XPS. This fuel cell development program is part of the DOE-FE Solid State Energy…

Using the approaches of mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics and small interfering RNA (siRNA)-induced gene silencing to identify new insulin receptor signaling components in cultured adipocytes.

Lead Institution
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Principal Investigator
Zhen Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Insulin is a hormone that plays key roles in the regulation of fuel (glucose, fatty acid and protein) metabolisms and gene expression in the human body. Impaired insulin signaling and actions lead…

Analysis of catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
use EMSL capabilities in imaging and analysis to better understand catalyst structures

Growth of vanadium oxides on anatase TiO2 (001)

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Weiwei Gao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Anatase TiO2 (001) has been grown on LaAlO3 (001) by using oxygen plasma assisted MBE. About 30nm vanadium oxide was also deposited on anatase TiO2 (001) surface in O2 plasma environment. XPS/UPS…