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.

Compositionally graded Co and Cr doped TiO2 rutile for Optimum Thermoelectric Power

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Fumio Ohuchi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Conversion of waste heat into useful energy in many applications including automobile exhausts has received considerable attention, recently. As such, there is a growing interest in synthesizing…

The interaction between uranium(VI) and magnetite surfaces: a combined STM and electron transfer calculation approach

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Frances Skomurski

Project type

Exploratory Research

The interaction between iron-oxide mineral surfaces and uranium(VI) in solution is of interest because of the potential for reducing radionuclide mobility by sorption and/or reduction. The reduction…

Photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) study of Cu nanoparticles on TiO2(110)

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kenneth Beck

Project type

Exploratory Research

The growth of metals on oxide surface is interested in a number of technological applications, including heterogeneous catalysis, electronic devices and gas sensing. Specifically, metal islands…

Strait Science - Biosensor Task 1.1 of the Coastal and Environmental Effects Program (PNNL scope #46754)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Margaret Pinza

Project type

Exploratory Research

This task is to further the basic science that could support the development of novel marine biosensors and enhanced biosentinels to complement existing devices used for biological weapons (BW)…

Surface chemical analysis of particles to determine the feasibility of examining pyrite particles from

Lead Institution

University of Idaho

Principal Investigator

Kevin Terhaar

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electronic structure determination on mineral surfaces

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Udo Becker

Project type

Exploratory Research

Electronic structure determination on mineral surfaces

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Udo Becker

Project type

Exploratory Research

Periodic and cluster electronic structure calculations will be jointly performed on pyrite and galena surfaces to elucidate the energetics of indirect interactions between adsorbates and surface…

Characterization and Molecular Modeling of Chelsea Humic Acid and Lanchine Kerogen

Lead Institution

California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Mamadou Diallo

Project type

Exploratory Research

tpr & tpo of MoOx capper Ti02

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Scott Elder

Project type

Exploratory Research

Growth and Structure of Epitaxial Pure and Zr-Doped Ce02 by Oxygen-plasma assisted Molecular Beam

Lead Institution

Hanbat National University

Principal Investigator

Yong Joo Kim

Project type

Exploratory Research

Laser-Induced-Time-Resolved Fluorescence (LIF)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Hong Li

Project type

Exploratory Research

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES DURING GROWTH ON CoMo BIMETALLIC CATALYSTS

Lead Institution

University of Oklahoma

Principal Investigator

Nataphan Sakulchaicharoen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) can be considered as one of the building blocks for nanoscale science and nanotechonology. Our group has focused on the disproportionation of CO on bimetallic…

Atomically Resolved Studies of Adsorbates on TiO2(110)(Kay's BES/Chemical Physics-Catalysis WBS0502 of Peden's BES-Chemical Transformations at Complex Interfaces, PNNL Scope #47319)

Lead Institution

Baylor University

Principal Investigator

Zhenrong Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The photochemistry of molecules adsorbed on surfaces provides a base of understanding of the photon stimulated process at adsorbate and substrate surface. TiO2 has been intensively investigated as…

Development of High Q Head

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

James Bruce

Project type

Exploratory Research

We are currently in the process of designing and constructing a high performance Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. One of the necessary components of the instrument is a…