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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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Development of a Soldier-Portable Power System

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Daniel Palo
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ongoing work in support of a joint Army/Navy funded project to develop a hydrocarbon-fueled fuel cell power system. Work includes catalyst development, device fabrication and demonstration, and…

SEM Characterization of Proposed Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Larry Thomas
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Leo 982 field-emission SEM at EMSL will be used for microscopic and elemental characterization of sodium-aluminate alanate or similar material being studied for as a hydrogen storage medium. An…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

Investigation of elemental contamination in solid oxide fuel cell materials.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vincent Sprenkle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Goal of this work is to investigate the role of contaminants in fuel cell materials through high resolution XPS. This fuel cell development program is part of the DOE-FE Solid State Energy…

Using the approaches of mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics and small interfering RNA (siRNA)-induced gene silencing to identify new insulin receptor signaling components in cultured adipocytes.

Lead Institution
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Principal Investigator
Zhen Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Insulin is a hormone that plays key roles in the regulation of fuel (glucose, fatty acid and protein) metabolisms and gene expression in the human body. Impaired insulin signaling and actions lead…

Analysis of catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
use EMSL capabilities in imaging and analysis to better understand catalyst structures

Growth of vanadium oxides on anatase TiO2 (001)

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Weiwei Gao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Anatase TiO2 (001) has been grown on LaAlO3 (001) by using oxygen plasma assisted MBE. About 30nm vanadium oxide was also deposited on anatase TiO2 (001) surface in O2 plasma environment. XPS/UPS…

Field emission SEM of anode supported YSZ fuel cells poisoned by Cr

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Simner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Cr voltatilization from SOFC alloy interconnects causes rapid degradation of SOFC catrhodes. We have purposefully doped cathodes with different Cr-containing compounds (relevant to SOFCs) to…

Iron Oxide Films

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Paul Fenter
Project type
Exploratory Research

Mossbauer Spectroscopic Study of Iron Redox in Silicate Glasses

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Hong Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this study is to determine iron redox (Fe2+/Fe3+) in silicate based glasses prepared under reducing conditions. Recent reviews which have dealt with critical issues regarding the…

NTP Nox Catalyst

Lead Institution
General Motors Corp./Delphi-E
Principal Investigator
Thomas Silvis
Project type
Exploratory Research

Gas Phase Reactions of Fe-S Clusters

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
You-jun Fu
Project type
Exploratory Research
FTICR mass spectrometer will be used to study the gas phase reaction of Fe-S clusters with small molecular compounds, O2, NO, CO, NH3. The results will contribute to the understanding of the O2…

Surface and interface study of contacts to carbon-based films

Lead Institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Principal Investigator
Lisa Porter
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed research consists of two projects, each of which pertains to different materials for electronic applications. The first project is part of a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team …

Proteomic Analysis of the HMEC Mitogenic Response

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Brian Thrall
Project type
Exploratory Research
This EMSL User Proposal is for a collaborative effort with the PNNL Proteomic National Center for Research Resources. Recent studies from our and others’ laboratories have demonstrated that the…