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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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Cu Interconnect Structure in the FESEM

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Field
Project type
Exploratory Research
Cu interconnect structure will be imaged using the LEO 982 FESEM. Orientations from select locations will be measured using EBSD. On a return trip, we will examine the evolved structure after…

Photolithography to form microcontact printing tools

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Barbara Tarasevich
Project type
Exploratory Research
Objectives are to use the photolithography facility in EMSL 1304 clean room to form patterned resists on silicon wafers.

AES Study of Chemical Segregation in the Ti-Pt-PZT system for MEMS devices

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Bahr
Project type
Exploratory Research
In past investigations between WSU and EMSL, XPS analysis has provided evidence that Pb has diffused to the Ti/Pt interface in a Si/SiO2/Ti/Pt/PZT stack used in a MEMS microengine. Pb diffusion…

Mass Determination of Cyclic Siloxane

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Nelson
Project type
Exploratory Research
A presumed cyclic siloxane has been isolated from the polymerization of a phenolic diallyl compound and silane hydride under catalytic hydrosilylation conditions. This type of cyclic component is…

Determination of Metal Dispersion Values

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David King
Project type
Exploratory Research
Project objective is to look at alternate methods of adding active metals to catalyst supports. The purpose for the project is to determine the best method in terms of maximizing exposed metal…

High pressure VLS synthesis of silicon nanowires

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Joo Chan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Silicon nanowires synthesized via supercritical cyclohexane solvent at a high temperature of 450C and pressures of 200bar will be studied. Doping of the silicon nanowires with p- and n- dopant during…

High pressure VLS synthesis of silicon nanowires

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Joo Chan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Silicon nanowires synthesized via supercritical cyclohexane solvent at a high temperature of 450C and pressures of 200bar will be studied. Doping of the silicon nanowires with p- and n- dopant during…

Fabrication of MIP Filaments

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Jennifer Brazier
Project type
Exploratory Research
I am currently working on a project for Dr. Yan of Portland State University. This project involves making molecularly imprinted polymers for use as optical detectors. In specific, I want to make…

The Measurement of Low Energy Ion Sputtering Yields Utilizing RBS

Lead Institution
NASA Glenn Research Center
Principal Investigator
Maris Mantenieks
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sputtering, a process by which a target is removed by an impinging ion, has been studied in great detail since the early sixties. Despite this, the need exists for accurate sputtering yield…

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Group VI transition Metal oxygen clusters

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Tom Waters
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal outlines possible experiments to be carried out during a visit by Tom Waters (Melbourne University, Australia) to PNNL during November 2001 to work with Professor Lei-Sheng Wang. This…

Single-molecule imaging at LB bilayers

Lead Institution
Bowling Green State University
Principal Investigator
H. Peter Lu
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed experiments with the LB trough are to create lipid bi-layer membranes with low concentrations of either fluorescence labeled lipids and/or low concentrations of fluorescence labeled…

Infrared Analysis of Nafion 424 membrane for carboxylate presence

Lead Institution
CerOx Corporation
Principal Investigator
Norvell Nelson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The supporting grid in Nafion 424 membrance can, if overheated, release HF. Since the pitting corrosion appears to match the mesh grid, this could explain the observed corrosion in CerOx materials. …

cells and mineral surfaces

Lead Institution
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Steven Lower
Project type
Exploratory Research
use atomic force microscopy to measure pico- to nano-scale forces between bacterium and mineral surface in solution

Fate and transport of titanium dioxide through freshwater ecosystems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ann Miracle
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will identify and quantify titanium dioxide (titania, TiO2) nanoparticles and its subsequent mass balance in environmental media (i.e., water, sediment and benthic/sediment dwelling…

Interaction of Calcium Ions with Bacterial Polysaccharides (fsd3)

Lead Institution
Kansas State University
Principal Investigator
Paul Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
I have attched the project description as a Word file because although it was only 2300 characters and I am allowed 4000, the web page would not accept more than 2000