Skip to main content

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.™ 

 

  • Projects beginning at or after given date.
    Projects ending at or before given date.

Foldable Polymers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
We introduce a new class of foldable oligomers consisting of alternating rigid and flexible regions. The rigid segments overlap to give ?-stacked folded conformers whose formation is driven mostly by…

Analysis of nanoparticulates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Hoppe
Project type
Exploratory Research
Perform analysis of the suspected carbon nanoparticle samples to identify the morphology and chemical composition via SEM-EDS, TEM, Auger ES, SIMS. This effort is high priority and extremely urgent…

SEM Analysis of Rotating Drum Impactor Filter strips for biological species

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
The samples to be analyzed are time-resolved filter samples taken as part of a DHS study on biologocal backgrounds at the SFP airport. These samples will be analyzed by SEM for times corresponding…

Biomimetic Ceramics Synthesis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Xiaohong Li
Project type
Exploratory Research

Oxidation Study of Carbon Fiber Surfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Simmons
Project type
Exploratory Research
Phase one: Use of XPS and SIMS for studying the amount of oxidation that has been performed on various carbon fiber samples. Knowing qualitative and quantitative information about the fiber surfaces…

Characterization of anatase thin films with electron and ion based methods

Lead Institution
Universitaet Zuerich-Irchel
Principal Investigator
Juerg Osterwalder
Project type
Exploratory Research
There has been very much interest in titanium dioxide materials due, in part, to their important catalytic and photocatalytic properties. Rutile is the polymorph that has received the most…

Adhesion of Polymer Sphere to Modified Natural Fiber via AFM

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Holbery
Project type
Exploratory Research
The modification of natural fiber surfaces (Kenaf, Flax, etc.) to control the hydrophobicity is critical in utilizing these structural fibere within polymer composites. As a measure of the adhesion…

XRD Equipment Use

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Trevor Plaisted
Project type
Exploratory Research