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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 analysis of functional carbons

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Study spontaneous structural formation processes in nanocomposite materials that involve molecular-level mixing, biological templating, or nanoscale organization that occur in solutions, polymers,…

Ion-Beam Synthesis of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Weilin Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Energetic ion beams will be used for synthesis of novel materials for hydrogen storage. Ion-beam analysis, including RBS, ERDA and NRA, will be performed at varied temperatures to study hydrogen…

Steam Reforming of Bio-mass

Lead Institution
Yonsei University
Principal Investigator
Hyun-seog Roh
Project type
Exploratory Research
EtOH steam reforming was done over supported Rh catalysts. XPS analyses will be done to characterize surface properties of the catalysts.

Advanced Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this four year two phase (R21/R33) project we will apply advanced proteomic and metabolomic nanoflow liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry technologies…

Development of Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metabolomics is a holistic approach to the study of a biological system’s metabolite complement (often generalized to include essentially all small molecules), and its practice is anticipated to…

Nanocrystalline MoS2 catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
Characterization by SEM of nanocrystalline MoS2 solids. We have 4 samples that we would like to analyze by SEM for nanostructure.

Determination of nanoporous material oxidation states

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dawn Wellman
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is in support of projects associated with the development of novel surface-activated nanoporous materials for treatment of waste waters and as radionuclides getters in proposed…

Characterization of Pure and Doped ZnO Nanoclusters

Lead Institution
University of Idaho
Principal Investigator
JiJi Antony
Project type
Exploratory Research
ZnO is a wide-band gap semiconductor (3.3 eV) that has attracted tremendous interest as blue light emitting spintronic material. ZnO particles when doped with transition metals can develop properties…

Surface Characterization of Ambient Ultrafine Particles

Lead Institution
Central Washington University
Principal Investigator
Eric Bullock
Project type
Exploratory Research
The ultrafine fraction (<0.1 mm diameter) of ambient particulate matter (PM) caused by combustion has recently been shown to induce significant oxidative stress in macrophages and epithelial cells…