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Projects

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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Nanocoating

Lead Institution
Tsinghua University
Principal Investigator
Jun Li
Project type
Exploratory Research

Au Irradiations

Lead Institution
Savannah River Technology Center
Principal Investigator
Savannah River Technical Ctr.
Project type
Exploratory Research

Characterization of GaN/InGaN/GaN thin film structures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Exploratory Research
Under the seed funding recently obtained from Semiconductor Research Corporation (Research Triangle, NC), we are investigating nitride-based quantum well structures for the development of direct…

Evaluation of SIMS to measure N isotopes in soils

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cliff
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recent advances in cost and function of isotope ratio mass spectrometry have allowed insight into dynamic soil microbial processes associated with N cycling. However, minimum sample size often…

Deposition of low-temperature ITO on flexible polymer substrates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pete Martin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Polymer/metal multilayers are being evaluated as oxygen/water barriers for encapsulting and packaging devices for Flat Panel Display (FPD). To test the performance of our barrier films in real…

Chemical Imaging of Quantum Dots

Lead Institution
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Principal Investigator
Hong Luo
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal of this proposed project is to chemically image quantum dots, which has been done, so far, only at EMSL. We have worked with Dr. Yong Liang to develop this approach, and will use it this…

Measurement of hydrogen in Ti-Al alloy by RBS

Lead Institution
University of Idaho
Principal Investigator
Baburaj Eranezhuth
Project type
Exploratory Research
Although there are hundreds of intermetallic compounds, only a few are being developed as structural materials for a broad range of applications. Among the titanium aluminide intermetallics, Ti3Al…

Coal Surface Charging Property Characterization

Lead Institution
University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Principal Investigator
Malay Mazumder
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal is to advance the fundamental understanding of the electrostatic properties of coal and mineral particles and apply to advanced technology for dry coal beneficiation and mineral separation…

Reaction mechanisms for silicate mineral dissolution

Lead Institution
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
J Rimstidt
Project type
Exploratory Research
The rates of reaction between silicate minerals and glasses and aqueous solutions is of great scientific and technological interest. For example, these reaction rates determine how fast carbonic acid…