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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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57Fe Mossbauer Spectroscopic Study of Fe Redox Centers in Titanium Silicates

Lead Institution
Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Org. (ANSTO)
Principal Investigator
Victor Luca
Project type
Exploratory Research
Novel microporous titanosilicates display unique sorption and catalytic properties and are consequently being intensively studied. For instance TS-1, a member of the MFI topological family, when…

Infrared Spectroscopic Investigations of Mixed-Metal Layered Hydroxides

Lead Institution
Michigan State University
Principal Investigator
Robert Kirkpatrick
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mixed-metal layered hydroxides are among the few oxide-based materials that have significant permanent anion exchange capacity due to isomorphous substitution. They occur naturally and in cement…

Characterization of chromate reductase of Pseudomonas putida

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
A Matin
Project type
Exploratory Research
A soluble chromate reductase has been purfied to homogeneity n Dr. Matin's Lab at Stanford University. It is very likely that this enzyme reduces toxic Cr(V1) to nontoxic Cr(III). to…

Bonding and electron density distributions in layered silicate minerals

Lead Institution
Sandia National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Randy Cygan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Layered silicate minerals play an important role in the transport/fixation of radionuclide contaminants. Interlayer charge distributions are know to have a substantial effect on the cation exchange…

The electronic structure of LiNb03 polymorphs

Lead Institution
Sandia National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Teter
Project type
Exploratory Research
The recent discover of the first esperimentally verifed oxide in the inverse perovskite structure has led to varied theoretical efforts to explain it. Perovskites of the form AB03 typically have…

epr of lithium polymer battery electrolyte

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Peter Rieke
Project type
Exploratory Research
brief spectral look at epr spectra of lithium polymer battery electrolyte

Determination of Iron Speciation in H2S Treated Sediment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kirk Cantrell
Project type
Exploratory Research
Research is being conducted to determine the effectiveness of H2S treatment of vadose zone sediments as a method to treat reducible contaminants such as chromate, in situ. We have conducted two long…

Current sensing AFM of CdTe quantum dots on GaAs (111)

Lead Institution
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Principal Investigator
Hong Lou
Project type
Exploratory Research
CsTe have demonstrable potential to serve as nanocharge retaining devices on certain semi-conducting surfaces. Potential applications include high density read-write datea storage. Towards that end…

Heavy Ion Damage in Stainless Steel Alloys

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bruce Arey
Project type
Exploratory Research
We plan to do a series of experiments using Nickel ions, with variations in temperature and damage rate. The first year, we have a matrix of three alloys, two temperatures and four damage rate…

Measurements of Hydrogen Absorption in Oxidized Ti using Nuclear Reactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to characterize the absorption of hydrogen in Ti metal as part of our program to study hydrogen absorption in advanced aerospace materials. This study is also intended as a preliminary…

SEM of Soil Goethites

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ravi Kukkadapu
Project type
Exploratory Research
SEM of soil enriched with Al-goethites before and after microbial reduction.

Microscopy of Sealant Glass Reaction

Lead Institution
Alfred University
Principal Investigator
S Sundaram
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective is to look at the glass-substrate interface and image the features. We are interested in understanding the reactions at the interface. This will be helpful in developing a correlation…

Chemical Characterization of Arrays of TiO2 Nanocolumns

Lead Institution
University of Texas at Austin
Principal Investigator
David Flaherty
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to study thin nano-structured films of titanium oxide, and vanadium- and nitrogen-doped titanium oxide which we will deposit by employing reactive ballistic deposition (RBD). Properly…

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…

Catalytic Ammonia oxidation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Fryxell
Project type
Exploratory Research
Develop and evaluate novel nanoporous catalyst systems for the catalytic oxidation of ammonia.