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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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Investigation of Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Commercial Glass Samples

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Chester Shepard
Project type
Exploratory Research
Glass containing iron ions fluorescences when irradiated with light at 380 nm. The fluorescence lifetime is temperature dependent and either lifetime measurements or total fluorescence signal…

TV glass investigation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Albert Mendoza
Project type
Exploratory Research
Look for fluorescence in TV glass

Near Real-time Alkene Sensor for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Monitoring

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Reza Shekarriz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal for the proposed project is to be able to take advantage of the current investments made at EMSL for the development of TDS to evaluate the potential for combining the TDS with the current…

MeV Ion Irradiation of Galilean Satellite compositional analogues

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will explore the effects that MeV irradaion has on candidate compositional analogues of surface non-ice materials s of the the Galilean satellites Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. The…

Mev He Ion Implantation in Si Wafers

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Exploratory Research
The aim of this proposed work is to probe the inter-defect distribution (IDD) model that relates the phonon correlation length to the ion dose received by a material such as silicon. Previous…

18-Oxygen uptake measurements on Ceramic samples

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Kerstetter
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to measure the 18-oxygen uptake on several ceramic samples (La-Sr-Cr-Fe-O). The uptake of the 18-oxygen will be measured using the nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) at…

Thermal Analysis of Photopolymerized Polyacrylate thin films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Sapochak
Project type
Exploratory Research
Many times photopolymerization of a formulation mixture does not go all the way to completion. Smaller oligomeric components added to the formulation to aid in mechanical, adhesive and/or thermal…

Mesh Generation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Harold Trease
Project type
Exploratory Research