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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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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…

Computational Investigation of Acid Base, Surface Complexation, and Oxidation/Reduction Reaction Mechanisms on Iron Oxide and Iron Silicate Surfaces (Felmy Rustad BES, PNNL SCOPE #22130).

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Andrew Felmy
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project is directed at providing a molecular scale understanding of surface complexation reactions occurring at oxide, oxyhydroxide, and silicate mineral surfaces through the use of molecular…

Chalcogenide Surface Science

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Chalcogenide nanowires have been observed to form on soda lime glass and fused quartz substrates. These materials have potential application for analytical and photonic devices. Further research is…

Low temperature Si device fabrication

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Scott Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
There is a demand for high performance semiconductor devices which are thin and flexible, for applications where high frequency operation, light weight, and conforming to a curved surface is…

The Microstructural Influence on Fatigue Crack Growth in Rene 88DT

Lead Institution
Colorado School of Mines
Principal Investigator
Kip Findley
Project type
Exploratory Research
In order to reduce materials development time in superalloy applications, it is necessary to develop physically-based models to predict the alloy's properties. Fatigue is a life-limiting…

Analysis of the composition of Cu films

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Field
Project type
Exploratory Research
Microstructure of Cu films used in modern integrated circuit interconnect lines is important in controlling both manufacturability and reliability of the in-service chip. The microstructure as it…

Design and Synthesis of Tailored Band-Gap SiGe(C) Detectors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will discover new materials based on Si-Ge-C for use as efficient, high resolution, large-area radiation detectors. Si-Ge-C alloys have been developed as active semiconductor devices…

Proteomics of Burkholderia mallei

Lead Institution
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School
Principal Investigator
Steven Schutzer
Project type
Exploratory Research
Burkholderia mallei is the cause of glanders. There is no rapid discriminating diagnostic assay, no vaccine, and reliable therapy. Gaps in our understanding and rapid diagnostics for the microbe can…