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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. 

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™ 

 

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Uranium(VI) sorption onto hematite surfaces

Lead Institution
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Nuclear Waste Management
Principal Investigator
Dirk Bosbach
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sorption processes on mineral surfaces are relevant for assessing the performance of deep geological nuclear waste deposit sites. Knowledge of basic sorption interactions on a molecular scale is…

Pixel Offset Voltage on a CMOS Liquid Crystal on Silicon Microdisplay

Lead Institution
Three Five Systems, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Michael Cagle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Background: Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Microdisplays have the potential to displace CRT based HDTV units in the marketplace due to their high resolution and low cost achieved from leveraging…

Random Automobile Selection System

Lead Institution
Energy Northwest
Principal Investigator
Randy Stevens
Project type
Exploratory Research
Development of a system to randomly select a fraction of vehicles entering the Energy Northwest Nuclear facility. The selected vehicles will be searched and the system will allow the security…

Electronic Transfer Calculations for the Hemes of Flavocytochrome c3

Lead Institution
Intel Corporation
Principal Investigator
Dayle Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the DOE Office of Science Program Notice 01-21 for Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems, we have received funding for development of new large-scale electron transfer…

Identification of a novel biomolecule in deep-sea clams

Lead Institution
Whitman College
Principal Investigator
Paul Yancey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Marine invertebrates are osmoconformers and must match their intracellular osmotic pressure to the high osmotic pressure of seawater. Compatible organic osmolytes that do not disrupt proteins are…

Confirmation of Si-C bonds in Grafted Monolayer Through XPS.

Lead Institution
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Principal Investigator
Cory Struckman
Project type
Exploratory Research
My graduate research involves the grafting of monomolecular layers such as undecene onto SiO2 surfaces. The monolayer has been shown to remain on the surface after repeated washing with solvents. …

Plasma Mechanisms for the Deactivation of Bacterial Spores

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Joseph Birmingham
Project type
Exploratory Research
Objective: Use SEM Micrographs to determine effect of ionized gases on bacterial spore coats. The bacterial spores used are nonhazardous mutant spores that have unique spore coat characteristics. …

Molecular Modeling of Phospholamban

Lead Institution
University of Kansas
Principal Investigator
Krzysztof Kuczera
Project type
Exploratory Research
The primary aim of this project is to use molecular modeling to gain a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of phospholamban (PLB). Phospholamban is a transmembrane protein of 52 amino…

Study of Nd3+ Surface Adsorption on Calcite

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Sandra Withers-Kirby
Project type
Exploratory Research
The adsorption of Nd3+ on the calcite (CaCO3) surface will be studied. The impurity sorption properties of calcite have particular importance to waste remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear…

Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Nanoscale Oxides for Spintronics

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Diedrich Schmidt
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of JIN Award 2002, will be working with PNNL LDRD team. Author will work on the growth and characterization of cobalt doped anatase (TiO2) on silicon, with the goals to understand and solve…

Nondestructive Carbon Nanotube Modification of Tailored Functionality

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of JIN Award 2002, wll be working with Chris Aardahl to develop new materials that harness the qualities of carbon nanotubes. Actuator devices based on these materials will be constructed as…

Nondestructive Carbon Nanotube Modification of Tailored Functionality

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of JIN Award 2002, wll be working with Chris Aardahl to develop new materials that harness the qualities of carbon nanotubes. Actuator devices based on these materials will be constructed as…

White Layer Characterization

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
William Wood
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metallurgists have widely reported a thin, featureless layer on the surface of sliding components in many industrires. It has been called white layer due to its resistance to chemical etching. The…

Dilute magnetic semiconducting oxide thin films and nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Kannan Krishnan
Project type
Exploratory Research
As JIN Award 2002, we propose to investigate the growth, magnetic properties and spin-dependent transport in the recently discovered Co-doped anatase ferromagnetic semiconductor thin films. Emphasis…

Characterization of Sn Whiskers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
M. Norton
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sn whiskers have for long been known as a failure mechanism in electronic components. This study seeks to determine the origin of Sn whiskers and their growth mechanism. In this collaboration with…