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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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Surface state characterization of
Pt/Al2O3 catalyst for the CPO Reaction

Lead Institution
Kansas State University
Principal Investigator
Keith Hohn
Project type
Exploratory Research
Catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) of hydrocarbons and alcohols is an efficient means for producing hydrogen. At high flow rates, this process can operate without the addition of any process heat,…

Gas cell metalization

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Justin McIntyre
Project type
Exploratory Research
Use e-beam and metal sputtering chamber located in 1317 and 1321 to evaporate metal onto plastic scintillator. Purpose is to study effects of light absorption and noble gas absorption from plastic…

Electronic and structural properties of surfaces and interfaces

Lead Institution
Ames Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Cai-zhuang Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research is aimed at understanding the roles that surfaces and interfaces have on the properties of materials. Primarily, this work is separated into two areas: calculations of semiconductor…

Development of Cell Permeable Dyes for in-vivo Live Cell Imaging

Lead Institution
Western University of Health Sciences
Principal Investigator
Thomas Squier
Project type
Exploratory Research
. Our long-term goal is to develop the necessary reagents and technology for the rapid identification of a substantial fraction of the multiprotein complexes in an organism, thereby permitting a…

Interposer Profile Measurements

Lead Institution
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Principal Investigator
Lawrence Bowman
Project type
Exploratory Research
The purpose of this effort is to characterize the heights and shapes of screen printed structures. The structures are fabricated from a commercial RTV elastomer (Dow Corning 6910) via precision…

Proteomic analysis of Arthrobacter

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Allan Konopka
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project proposes to use advanced proteomic analysis available at EMSL to provide information for the annotation of a bacterial genome. The genome sequence of Arthrobacter FB24, a chromium and…

Analysis of Lipid Nanoparticle Interaction with Cell Membrane

Lead Institution
Bowling Green State University
Principal Investigator
H. Peter Lu
Project type
Exploratory Research
Lipid nanoparticle is an important medical agent to cure cancer, especially in gene therapy cancer treatment. To understand the interaction of lipid nanoparticle with cell membrane is critically…

Chemical Analysis of Nano-structures for Toxic Gas Detection

Lead Institution
South Dakota State University
Principal Investigator
David Galipeau
Project type
Exploratory Research
New chemical agent detectors for toxic and explosive gases are of high current interest due to new requirements for homeland security. The most common technology for detecting many of these gases…

Synthesis and Characterization of Enzyme Nanoparticles.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Guodong Liu
Project type
Exploratory Research
The detection of protein is of central importance to the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, for the detection of infectious agents, and for reliable forensic analysis. The emergence of…

Proteomic studies of growth and metabolism in Corynebacterium glutamicum R

Lead Institution
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth
Principal Investigator
Hideaki Yukawa
Project type
Exploratory Research
Corynebacterium glutamicum is a soil bacterium isolated in Japan in the 1950's as an L-glutamic acid producer (Kinoshita, et al., 1957). Strains derived from C. glutamicum are used in a number…

Determination of pore structure in highly porous silica oxide powders

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Exploratory Research
The performance of self-assembled monolayers on mesoporous supports (SAMMS) in many applications is greatly dependent on the nanoscale structure of the mesoporous support material used. The objective…

Characterization of corrosion products on iron aluminide coated alloys

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Senor
Project type
Exploratory Research
Iron-rich iron aluminide coatings were deposited via enclosed vacuum evaporation at PNNL on stainless steel type 316, Al-base alloy 6061, and alloy steel AISI 4130. The coatings are intended to…

Salt Cake Waste Fractional Crystallization and Displacement Washing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gary Josephson
Project type
Exploratory Research
New methods to separate sodium salts of nitrate, nitrite, carbonate, and sulfate from salt-cake waste at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington State will be investigated. These salts make up the bulk of…

Surface Assessment of BxCy Thin Film on Si

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
April Carman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Two diode devices obtained from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will be studied with respect to surface morphology, stoichiometry and think layer thickness via scanning electron microscopy.

Electroforming Copper

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ultrapure copper components will be created by electroplating.