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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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Microscopic visualization of membrane pores and bacterial foulants

Lead Institution
University of Houston
Principal Investigator
Shankar Chellam
Project type
Exploratory Research
My research is mainly centered on membrane technologies for municipal water purification. We (1) elucidate contaminant transport and membrane fouling mechanisms, (2) devise methods to enhance…

Oxidation of atmospheric organic particulate matter

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Allan Bertram
Project type
Exploratory Research
Organic particulate matter is abundant throughout the atmosphere. These organic particles may contribute significantly to the radiative forcing, thus, changing the Earth's climate. Additionally,…

Visualization of Gamma H2AX Foci

Lead Institution
NASA Ames Research Center
Principal Investigator
Marianne Sowa
Project type
Exploratory Research
Genomically unstable cells have been demonstrated to release a "factor" into the medium which when transferred to stable cells results in 100% cell death. First demonstrated by Nagar and…

DNA Microarray Automation and Analysis

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Darrell Chandler
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to automate the molecular biology and reagent manipulations associated with the hybridization and detection of nucleic acid binding events on the surface of a DNA…

Architectural Rendering of EMSL Office Expansion

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I would like to build a 3-d model of the new office expanision at EMSL and render several images. These renderings will be used to help visualize the actual space and aesthetics of the project

Evaluation of SIMS to measure N isotopes in soils

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cliff
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recent advances in cost and function of isotope ratio mass spectrometry have allowed insight into dynamic soil microbial processes associated with N cycling. However, minimum sample size often…

Deposition of low-temperature ITO on flexible polymer substrates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pete Martin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Polymer/metal multilayers are being evaluated as oxygen/water barriers for encapsulting and packaging devices for Flat Panel Display (FPD). To test the performance of our barrier films in real…

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…