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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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Photo-oxidative stress response in Chlamydomonas: Regulation of singlet oxygen acclimation through dynamic changes in intracellular phosphorylation and extracellular signaling

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Setsuko Wakao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Growth of photosynthetic organisms depends on light energy, which in excess causes oxidative damage if not managed properly. Singlet oxygen (1O2) is a highly toxic form of ROS that is predominantly…

Modeling Conduction in Organic Solar Cells

Lead Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
Daniel Neuhauser
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to model conduction in organic solar cells. Organic solar cells have promise in the manufacturing of efficient, inexpensive solar devices, which are essential to our energy future. A…

Extending Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Technology Into the Future

Lead Institution
Northwestern University
Principal Investigator
David Seidman
Project type
Exploratory Research
With the continuous scaling of microelectronic device dimensions, the variability in MOSFET characteristics, primarily due to the discrete distribution of dopant atoms is a major challenge facing the…

Phenotypic characterization of TCE and PCE degrading Dehalococcoides

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Martin Fisk
Project type
Exploratory Research
We presently have in our laboratory several anaerobic mixed cultures, enriched from contaminated aquifer soils, capable of reductively dechlorinating TCE or PCE fully to ethene in the presence of…

Mass spectrometric analysis of eukaryotic proteosome

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Maxwell
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is catalyzed by the 26S proteasome, a dynamic complex of 32 different proteins whose mode of assembly and mechanism of action is poorly understood. The 26S proteasome…

Degradation of Oxalate Containing Compounds by Soil Microbes

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
David Myrold
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ectomycorrihizal mats are macroscopic structures occurring on the forest floor of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. They can cover up to 25% of the surface area of…

Isotopic Measurements for MAJORANA

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Kouzes
Project type
Exploratory Research
The current focal point of PNNL's nuclear physics program is the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, and the follow-on 1-tonne scale experiment, a large array of ultra-low background high-purity germanium…

Defects in Transparent Conductive beta-Ga2O3 Single Crystals

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Marjorie Olmstead
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this proposal we motivate and describe a series of ion beam experiments and density functional theory calculations to be conducted at EMSL, which will answer fundamental questions about the origin…

The characterization of phosphorus recovered from dairy effluent using biochar and polymer flocculation methods.

Lead Institution
United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Unit
Principal Investigator
Harold Collins
Project type
Exploratory Research
The current economic climate in conjunction with rising production costs and environmental concerns over phosphorus fertilizer and dairy nutrient management issues requires research to evaluate on…

A New Approach to a Deep Understanding of Biomass Recalcitrance

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Xiao Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
A deep understanding of 'biomass recalcitrance' is a key to the development of cost effective pretreatment and discovery of highly efficient cell wall polysaccharide degrading enzyme…

Characterization of Aerosol Organics by LC-MSn

Lead Institution
Desert Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Douglas Lowenthal
Project type
Exploratory Research
Aerosols contribute to the Earth's radiation balance directly by absorbing and scattering light and indirectly by nucleating cloud droplets which increase planetary albedo. Both effects depend…

Advanced IMPROVE Studies

Lead Institution
Desert Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Douglas Lowenthal
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed collaboration with Dr. Lizabeth Alexander of PNNL will enable continuous measurement of size-resolved aerosol chemical composition using the EMSL high resolution time-of-flight Aerosol…