Projects

XPS and DFT Study on the Surface Properties of Carbon-Resistant and Sulfur-Tolerant Bimetallic Ni-Rh Reforming Catalysts for Hydrogen Production and Fuel Cell Applications

Lead Institution

Pennsylvania State University

Principal Investigator

Chunshan Song

Project type

Exploratory Research

Fuel cells, in which hydrogen can be effectively converted to electricity, are expected to play a critical role in the future of power generation. Consequently, a huge amount of hydrogen is needed to…

WSU Tri-Cities Electron Microscopy Course

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Edgar Buck

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electron Microscopy (EM) has long been an important experimental tool in materials science, biological sciences, and geosciences. At PNNL, electron microscopes, both SEM and TEM, are used in nearly…

Europium Uptake in Various SAM Coated Mesoporous Silica

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

John Bays

Project type

Exploratory Research

A variety of self assembled monolayers (SAM) may be applied to mesoporous silica substrates. These SAMs may bind europium or other lanthanides from solution. It is important to quantify the…

Thermal Stability of Silicalite and Zeolite Molecular Sieves Exposed to CO2 with SO2 & H2O Impurities

Lead Institution

Ohio University

Principal Investigator

David Young

Project type

Exploratory Research

Access to simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry/thermal gravimetric analysis (DSC/TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and, if available, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) equipment at EMSL is requested for…

TRLIF Studies of Eu(III) Sorption to Quartz and Uranophane

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Aurora Clark

Project type

Exploratory Research

To complement and provide much needed experimental benchmarks to ongoing computational studies at the EMSL supercomputing facility, we propose to use four weeks of time at the facilities at EMSL to…

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kyle Alvine

Project type

Exploratory Research

We propose to use the world-class ion scattering facilities at EMSL to advance the understanding of the effects of high-pressure hydrogen on nanolaminate low friction coatings and piezoelectric…

Pore-Scale Investigation of the Impacts of Solution Chemistry on Mixing-Induced Mineral Precipitation in Silicon-Based Micromodels

Lead Institution

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Principal Investigator

Changyong Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

CO2 sequestration in geologic formations is increasingly being studied as a strategy for limiting CO2 emission to the atmosphere, but there are potentials for geochemical reactions in the reservoirs…

Study of Kinetics of Oxide Scale Formation in air on Nicrofer-6025HT for Clean Coal Energy Delivery and other High Temperature Applications using XPS

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jens Darsell

Project type

Exploratory Research

Oxygen separation membranes for clean coal energy delivery in advanced coal based power plants rely on use of solid state electronic and ionic conductors which operate at temperatures in the range…

Microscale Spectroscopic Analyses of Cellulose Degradation and
Uptake by a Microbial Community

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Nancy Hess

Project type

Exploratory Research

We seek to describe the acquisition and incorporation of cellulose-derived C into a complex microbial community that was been enriched from soil. In doing so at batch culture scales we will further…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Technology Assistance Program

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Gary Spanner

Project type

Exploratory Research

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that the United States' national laboratories offer technology assistance to small businesses. The Technology Assistance Program (TAP) operated by the…

Design of plasmonic probe tips to control light on the nanoscale for imaging and spectroscopy with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution

Lead Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder

Principal Investigator

Bernd Raschke

Project type

Exploratory Research

The optical probing of matter with simultaneous nanometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution has remained a great challenge. Here, using focused ion beam milling we will tune the optical…

Elucidation of Structure-Activity Relationship in Nanoparticle Inhalation Toxicology

Lead Institution

Battelle Columbus

Principal Investigator

Amit Gupta

Project type

Exploratory Research

Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) are of great commercial interest. However, with increasing applications and production capacities of MWCNT, they are coming under intense scrutiny by the…

VEGETATION INFLUENCES ON LONG-TERM CARBON STABILIZATION IN SOILS, VIA PLANT ALLOCATION, TISSUE CHEMISTRY,
AND SOIL DEPTH EFFECTS

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Margaret Torn

Project type

Exploratory Research

Soil organic matter is a major reservoir of carbon within the biosphere and has a fundamental impact on soil properties, and therefore on ecosystem functioning and sustainability. We are proposing to…

Impacts of Pore Scale Heterogeneity on Nanoparticle Motility and Transport: A Micromodel Study

Lead Institution

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Principal Investigator

Changyong Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The increasing production, application and disposal of functionalized nanomaterials will inevitably lead to wide environmental impacts. Motility and transport of nanoparticles in the subsurface…

Pathogen Control for a Sustainable Reuse of Wastewater: Role of Surface Interactions on Transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in Subsurface

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Thanh Nguyen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Transport of pathogens such as Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in subsurface environment is of great concern for water resources protection or drinking water treatment. Groundwater source for drinking…

Monitoring the Global Conformation of SRP During Co-translational Protein Targeting

Lead Institution

California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Vinh Lam

Project type

Exploratory Research

The signal recognition particle (SRP) is the major cellular machinery that mediates co-translational targeting of membrane and secretory proteins to the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane…

Structure-Function Relationships in Nanoscale Electrocatalysis

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Bo Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The goal of this proposal is to investigate the relationship between electrocatalytic activity and geometric characteristics at single metal nanowires. A key aspect of the proposed research is that…

Nanoparticle Characterization for Systems Analysis of Biocompatibility

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Barbara Tarasevich

Project type

Exploratory Research

The goal of this research is to develop an understanding of how the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials influence their ability to interact with cells and stimulate biological responses. The…

Computational Study of Protein-Protein Interaction Dynamics at Single Molecule Level

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Principal Investigator

Jin Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The dynamic process of binding occurs in a wide dynamic range, including millisecond to second timescale range. To be able to connect and compare computational simulation results with the results…

COMBINED EPR, NMR, MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND COMPUTATIONAL DETERMINATION OF RARE EARTH HYPERFINE EFFECTS IN CERAMICS.

Lead Institution

University of Cambridge

Principal Investigator

Ian Farnan

Project type

Exploratory Research

The first successful high-resolution solid-state NMR experiments on plutonium containing ceramics were carried out at EMSL. As these breakthrough experiments are exploited in the radiological NMR…