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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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Atomically Resolved Studies of Transition Metal Oxides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
STM and AFM studies will be conducted on surfaces of small crystalline domains and epitaxially grown thin TMO films such as γ-WO3(001), TiO2(110), and V2O5/TiO2(110). Such studies give…

Hydrogen storage of chemical hydrides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
Study the hydrogen storage capability of some chemical hydrides, including NH3-BH3 doped materials, and NaLiH4 doped materials. The study will be carried out using the RXM-100 system, to measure…

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Barbara Tarasevich
Project type
Exploratory Research
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy will be performed on conducting polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrole, polymer-mesoporous silica composites, and ammonium borane-mesoporous silica composites. …

synthesis of Cu2O under protein control

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Haixia Dai
Project type
Exploratory Research
The overall goal of this research is to develop a novel biomineralization strategy to engineer inorganic materials with controlled structure under mild processing conditions as nature does, for…

Deposition of Fuel cell materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vincent Sprenkle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Purpose of this program is to deposit coatings of variing thickness onto fuel cell components. Primarily interested in E-beam depositon of ceramics on metal substrates. This work is being conducted…

Deposition of Fuel cell materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vincent Sprenkle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Purpose of this program is to deposit coatings of variing thickness onto fuel cell components. Primarily interested in E-beam depositon and sputtering of ceramics on metal substrates. This work is…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of BF2OH

Lead Institution
University of Paris-7
Principal Investigator
Jean-Marie Flaud
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will record rotationally resolved infrared spectra of isotopically enriched 10BF2OH and 11BF2OH. The experimental work will be done using the hi-resolution Fourier transform infrared spectrometer…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Peroxynitric Acid

Lead Institution
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Principal Investigator
Walter Lafferty
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will take the high resolution infrared spectrum of peroxynitric acid using the hi-res FTIR spectrometer located in EMSL.

Proteomic Analysis of Shewanella oneidensis Biofilms

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Alfred Spormann
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our research is directed to elucidate the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation in Shewanella oneidensis. This microbe is a geochemically important Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing microorganism,…

Microstructural Investigations of Novel Magnetic Oxide Semiconductors

Lead Institution
Boise State University
Principal Investigator
Alex Punnoose
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our group at Boise State University is preparing powder and thin film samples of oxide semiconductors SnO2, TiO2 and ZnO doped with magnetic impurities to produce magnetism. In collaboration with Dr…

Membrane proteins of placental parasites

Lead Institution
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Michal Fried
Project type
Exploratory Research
Plasmodium falciparum parasites differ from other malaria parasite species that infect human by its ability to sequester in deep vascular beds and adhere to molecules expressed on the endothelium. It…

Image polystyrene microparticles

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
obtain SEM images of 1-10 micron polystyrene microspheres to examine surface features