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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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Low Energy Sputtering Experiments using RBS

Lead Institution
NASA Glenn Research Center
Principal Investigator
Michael Nakles
Project type
Exploratory Research
The recent successful demonstration of the NASA Solar electric propulsion Technology Application Readiness (NSTAR) ion thruster on the Deep Space 1 mission has paved the way for future electrostatic…

Proteomics of Morphology Determination in a Fungus

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Lasure
Project type
Exploratory Research
The white rot fungus, Phanerochaete crysosporium, is a saprophytic organism isolated from decaying wood chips. It is one of few organisms that produce ligninase enzymes. These enzymes are required…

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…

Mass spectrometry analysis of nucleotides/nucleosides

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Kathleen McAteer
Project type
Exploratory Research
We wish to synthesize a number of specifically-labeled DNA oligomers that will be valuable in characterizing the structure and dynamics of damaged DNAs. In order to do this we will isolate 13C and…

Dopamine Replacement Therapy and Parkinson's Disease

Lead Institution
Uppsala University
Principal Investigator
Malin Andersson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dopamine (DA) replacement therapy with L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) is currently the most efficient pharmacotherapy for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), but with disease…

Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases - Year III

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
New medicines are urgently needed against infectious diseases that are becoming increasingly more resistant to current therapies. The strategy being used by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to…

Enamel biomineralization: Solution- and solid-state NMR

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dental enamel, the layer of elongated carbonated hydroxyapatite on the outer layer of the tooth, is the hardest tissue in the human body. It needs to be strong because it cannot repair itself nor can…

Multi-Resolution Structure and Reactivity of Kinetically
Roughened Oxide Surfaces: Nanometric Scaling Behavior
and Molecular-Scale Controls (Rosso BES,PNNL Scope #43862. Rosso BES)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Rosso
Project type
Exploratory Research
Surfaces of Fe oxides, Mn oxides and Si oxides (quartz) minerals in natural settings exhibit a significant degree of morphological heterogeneity on scales from 1-1000 nm. Surface roughness and its…

Exploring the processes that control uranyl reduction by magnetite and the growth of nanoparticulate surface precipitates by X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glenn Waychunas
Project type
Exploratory Research
Uranium (U) has been released into the environment through mining operations, nuclear testing, and accidental spills, and is a contaminant in soils, sediments and groundwater at 70% of the Department…