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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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Cover Graphic for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology trade journal

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I will design an artistic rendition of work being conducted by Yuehe Lin (Scientist at PNNL) based on Carbon Nanotube-Templated Assembly of Proteins.

Investigation of electron emission from nano-structures

Lead Institution
Nonlinear Ion Dynamics, LLC
Principal Investigator
Rong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Field emission from metal nanotips will be investigated. Nanotips of different material and structures will be fabricated. The electron emission characteristics of different nanotips under AC and DC…

Catalyst Characterization Using the RXM-100 Test Stand

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christopher Aardahl
Project type
Exploratory Research
Temperature programmed desorption and physical property measurement of catalysts is being studied.

Olefins by High-Intensity Oxidation (Scope 46868)

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Yong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Velocys, Inc., the Dow Chemical Company, and Battelle, management and operations contractor of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will develop processes to create Olefins by High…

Hydrogen Production - (Steam reforming of Biomass Scope 46621)

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Yong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The work on this task will focus on steam reforming of ethanol for the direct production of H2 and CO2. This work addresses the following tasks of the Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure…

Klin Phosphoric Acid Process (Scope 47245)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Todd Hart
Project type
Exploratory Research
Battelle will support JDC, Inc. in their work for their U. S. Department of Agriculture Small Business Innovative Research project. JDC will supply phosphorous ore samples for this study. Battelle…

Optical Properties of Epitaxial Chromium Sesquioxide Films

Lead Institution
IBM Almaden Research Center
Principal Investigator
Roger Macfarlane
Project type
Exploratory Research
The aim is to measure the optical properties of epitaxial films of Cr2O3 particularly the sharp 2E excitons in the near infrared. These should act as a sensitive probe of film strains and purity as…

Aerosol Aging and Climate Change (Cowin's NOAA, PNNL Scope #47840)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Cowin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Using easily field-deployable, time-resolved aerosol collectors (TRAC and TAQ) create sample archives that permit quantitative, single particle-size and elemental-composition analysis of mixed…

Use of SEM/EDX Analysis to Study the Oxidation of Aerosol by Hydroxyl Radical

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
Unique chemistry at the air-water interface between chloride ion in sea salt aerosol and the hydroxyl radical (OH) has been suggested to play a major role in the production of increased levels of…

Xray analysis of quuantum well films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pete Martin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Perform x-ray analysis of superlattice and quantum well films to determine if the films have short range order. The films are deposited on Kapton substrates by magnetron sputtering.

Transition Metal Oxide Clusters - Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy (Wang's BES/Chemical Physics-Catalysis WBS0505 of Peden's BES-Chemical Transformations at Complex Interfaces, PNNL Scope #47319)

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research is aimed at obtaining a microscopic understanding of defect structures on oxide surfaces and catalytic reaction mechanisms using cluster models. Gas phase clusters provide molecular…