Projects

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.

Chih Heng Tseng's Proposal - Homogeneous precipitation of cerium dioxide nanoparticles

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Chih Heng Tseng

Project type

Exploratory Research

Due to its many distinctive characteristics, such as unique UV absorbing ability, high stability at high temperature, high hardness and reactivity, cerium dioxide (CeO2) has been employed in various…

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…

Quantification of the Ligand effects in transition metal coordination compounds using electronic structure calculation methods

Lead Institution

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Principal Investigator

Constantinos Tsipis

Project type

Exploratory Research

The ligand bonding effects described by the &#963;-donor and &#960;-acceptor capacities of the ligands in relation to the &#960;-donor and &#963;-acceptor capacities of the molecular…

The Reduction of Uranyl and Chromate to Insoluble Species by Green Rust and Other Ferrous Hydroxides Surfaces

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Principal Investigator

Martin Schoonen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electron transfer reactions play an important role in the determination of the fate of many environmental contaminants. Of particular importance are the transitions from high-oxidation states (+5/+6)…

Study of Some Specific Inclusions in a Garnet Matrix Using High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM)

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Maxime Guinel

Project type

Exploratory Research

Proposal for use of the High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM) at the EMSL, PNNL. The host will be Dr. Chongmin Wang. We propose (Dr M. Grant Norton and Maxime Guinel, from…

Growth of Magnetic Metal Oxide Thin Films

Lead Institution

Vienna University of Technology

Principal Investigator

Ulrike Diebold

Project type

Exploratory Research

Heterogeneous Chemical Processes on Metal Oxide Surfaces

Lead Institution

Vienna University of Technology

Principal Investigator

Ulrike Diebold

Project type

Exploratory Research

Molecular Graphics/Modeling of Tc and Se Partitioning in Zeolite and Layered Silicate

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Shas Mattigod

Project type

Exploratory Research

Intergration of Micropumps to micro-Trace Analytical Systems

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Khris Olsen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Evaluate Surface Chemistry of Electrical Isolation

Lead Institution

Qatar Foundation

Principal Investigator

Larry Pederson

Project type

Exploratory Research

Profilometry of Microchannel Surfaces

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

David Pfund

Project type

Exploratory Research

Training on the ICP-MS instrument

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Herbert Schaef

Project type

Exploratory Research

Novel Micro-manipulation methods for radioactive particel isolation and characterization with energy-filtered electron microscopy

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Edgar Buck

Project type

Exploratory Research

Successfully designing the next generation of nuclear power plants will require developing improved methods for characterizing and examining radioactive materials. This will include sub-micron phase…

SEM/EDS of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell seal materials

Lead Institution

US Department of Energy, Washington, DC

Principal Investigator

John Vetrano

Project type

Exploratory Research

The purpose of proposal is to examine the surface topography and composition of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) seal assemblies. These assemblies have been produced and then tested. We want to…

Demonstration of the Capability of Mobility-Controlled-Flooding Technology to Overcome Heterogeneity Induced Bypassing in Subsurface Remediation (PNNL LDRD #90001
Overcoming Heterogeneity Induced Bypassing)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Lirong Zhong

Project type

Exploratory Research

Introduction Heterogeneity induces bypassing of low-permeability zones in subsurface fluid flooding operations for remediation purposes. The contaminant in the bypassed areas is therefore…