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Projects

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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Oxidation Study of Carbon Fiber Surfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Simmons
Project type
Exploratory Research
Phase one: Use of XPS and SIMS for studying the amount of oxidation that has been performed on various carbon fiber samples. Knowing qualitative and quantitative information about the fiber surfaces…

Characterization of anatase thin films with electron and ion based methods

Lead Institution
Universitaet Zuerich-Irchel
Principal Investigator
Juerg Osterwalder
Project type
Exploratory Research
There has been very much interest in titanium dioxide materials due, in part, to their important catalytic and photocatalytic properties. Rutile is the polymorph that has received the most…

Adhesion of Polymer Sphere to Modified Natural Fiber via AFM

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Holbery
Project type
Exploratory Research
The modification of natural fiber surfaces (Kenaf, Flax, etc.) to control the hydrophobicity is critical in utilizing these structural fibere within polymer composites. As a measure of the adhesion…

XRD Equipment Use

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Trevor Plaisted
Project type
Exploratory Research

Catalyst Synthesis

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Yong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research

nickel coating of polmer microbeads

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
I would like to coat pure nickel on 20-30 micron diameter spherical polymer beads (polystyrene/divinylbenzene). Layer thickness and uniformity are not critical, but desire thin (< few microns)…

Nanostructured Catalysts for Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
University of Alabama
Principal Investigator
Christoffer Turner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our goal is to understand, at a fundamental level, the interactions in a platinum/graphite catalyst used as an anode of a PEM fuel cell and its influence on CO and H2 oxidation reactions. The metal…

Electron energy loss in radiation detection

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bret Cannon
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will develop the capability at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to measure processes by which high energy electrons lose energy in solids and how that lost energy is…

Infrared Spectra of Nitric Acid

Lead Institution
NASA Ames Research Center
Principal Investigator
Charles Chackerian
Project type
Exploratory Research
High resolution spectra will be recorded of nitric acid in the 5-8 micron spectral range. The spectra will be used to obtain absolute rovibrational line intensities for a number of vibrational bands…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Acetaldehyde

Lead Institution
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Principal Investigator
Jon Hougen
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have recorded the nu10 torsional band of acetaldehyde at 509 wavenumbers using the pulsed slit-jet, tunable diode laser spectrometer at the EMSL located at the Pacific Northwest National…

Application of Tunable, Ultrafast Lasers to Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry

Lead Institution
Vanderbilt University
Principal Investigator
Richard Haglund
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to use ion-trap mass spectrometry, capitalizing on the asymmetric trap design developed by Dr. Alexander, to study ion and neutral atom and molecule emission under laser irradiation in the…