Projects

Accumulation of chromium in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Sridhar Viamajala

Project type

Exploratory Research

Objective : The objective of this project is to look at the final products obtained after biotransformation of chromate. We hypothesize that chromate is reduced to insoluble chromium hydroxide and…

Quantitative Measurements in Scattering Media: Path length Determination of Short Wavelength Near Infrared Light in Fish Tissue

Lead Institution

Eastern Oregon University

Principal Investigator

Anna Cavinato

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of this study is to understand and evaluate how near infrared light penetrates through fish tissue. This fundamental study is necessary to improve the application of near infrared…

Oxygen versus Iron Terminations in Hematite Basal Surfaces: STM imagin in air and in aqueous solutions.

Lead Institution

Georgia Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Andrew Stack

Project type

Exploratory Research

This project will focus on determining the surface structure of hematite basal planes in aqueous solutions. Prior to this writing this proposal, we have been imaging hematite surfaces in solution…

Oxygen versus Iron Terminations in Hematite Basal Surfaces: STM imagin in air and in aqueous solutions.

Lead Institution

Georgia Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Andrew Stack

Project type

Exploratory Research

This project will focus on determining the surface structure of hematite basal planes in aqueous solutions. Prior to this writing this proposal, we have been imaging hematite surfaces in solution…

Influence of Calcium Carbonate Coatings on Contaminant Reactivity

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Timothy Droubay

Project type

Exploratory Research

Determine the effects of carbonate coatings on electron transfer reactions responsible for the reduction of chromate with iron oxides. This program utilizes the following methods or techniques:1)…

Whole genome cloning and expression of Treponema pallidum open reading frames

Lead Institution

Baylor College of Medicine

Principal Investigator

Timothy Palzkill

Project type

Exploratory Research

Treponema pallidum is a spirochete bacterium and is the causitive agent of syphilis. The complete genome sequence of T. pallidum is known. The organism has a genome size of 1.1 Mb and encodes 1031…

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides from the Zebrafish, Danio rerio

Lead Institution

University of Maine

Principal Investigator

Carol Kim

Project type

Exploratory Research

Antimicrobial peptides have been isolated and characterized from a wide variety of organisms. Playing a major role in innate immune defense, antimicrobial peptides have been shown to be capable of…

Identify Morphology of Initial LIGO Core Optics Scatter Sites:

Lead Institution

California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Cheryl Vorvick

Project type

Exploratory Research

The core optics in the Initial LIGO project all show numerous scatter points when illuminated by the interferometer beam. The scatter points are a source of loss in the interferometer, and thus are a…

Characterization of Unknown Biogenic Organic Compounds During Dissimilatory Metal Reduction

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

David Kennedy

Project type

Exploratory Research

Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, can generate energy by transferring electrons to insoluble Fe(III) oxides. They localize multi-heme cytochromes to…

Benchmark non-Born--Oppenheimer calculations on small molecules

Lead Institution

University of Arizona

Principal Investigator

Ludwik Adamowicz

Project type

Exploratory Research

The proposed research addresses the development and tests theoretical methods that allow very accurate variational calculations of atomic and molecular systems without using the Born--Oppenheimer…

TEM study of interfacial layers in Nb-clad stainless steel

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jung-pyung Choi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Nb-clad 304L stainless steel manufactured by cold rolling is currently under consideration for use as a bipolar plate material in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell stacks. To make the…

High Resolution TEM of Doped Ceria System

Lead Institution

University of Florida

Principal Investigator

Juan Nino

Project type

Exploratory Research

Higher ionic conductive solid oxide electrolyte is critical for the realization of portable device based on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Doped ceria materials show promise owing to their higher…

Oxygen isotope fractionation in phosphate during iron oxide-phosphate interaction

Lead Institution

University of Delaware

Principal Investigator

Deb Jaisi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Measurements of 18O/16O ratio of organic and inorganic PO4 in laboratory experiments have found that microbial metabolism of PO4 is accompanied by specific oxygen isotope fractionations. More…

Hydrolytic Stability and Susceptibility of Transition Metal Diolate Complexes and Applications to Green Oxidation

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Kevin Gable

Project type

Exploratory Research

A series of LReO3 complexes will be prepared and reductively cyclized with vicinal diola. The hydrolysis of these compounds will be examined by NMR and UV spectroscopies under a variety of pH…

Epoxy-Zirconate Sol-Gel Studies

Lead Institution

University of Dayton

Principal Investigator

Michael Donley

Project type

Exploratory Research

Epoxy-zirconate sol-gel based surface treatments are being investigated as a potential replacement for the current chromate-based approach for aerospace aluminum alloys. These sol-gel surface…

Fuel Cell Concept Animation (GVL3030)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Michael Perkins

Project type

Exploratory Research

Project will model a fuel cell and the animation will show the basic concept of a working system.

Study of the electronic properties of graphene-based materials

Lead Institution

CySilicoTech

Principal Investigator

Constantinos Zeinalipour

Project type

Exploratory Research

The aim of this proposal is to study the electronic structure of graphite, graphene and graphite intercalation compounds (GICs), in order to elucidate the origin of contrast in Scanning Tunneling…

Combat Service Support Automated Information Systems Interface (CAISI)(GVL3040)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Michael Perkins

Project type

Exploratory Research

This project will provide online e-Training to Army Management Information System users. It is designed to replace most of the instructor classroom training. My task is to model and render…

Study of the electronic structure of ditechnetium heptaoxide (Tc2O7) by solid-state NMR spectroscopy and ab initio computational methods.

Lead Institution

Argonne National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Alfred Sattelberger

Project type

Exploratory Research

The electronic structure of ditechnetium heptaoxide (Tc2O7) will be studied by solid-state NMR spectroscopy in combination with ab initio computational methods. Electric field gradient and shielding…

Mapping of H2O potential in the ice-like medium

Lead Institution

University of Warsaw

Principal Investigator

Joanna Sadlej

Project type

Exploratory Research

We propose to study the effect of the local environment on the intramolecular properties of water in an ice-like medium. We will use hierarchical descriptions of the intermolecular interactions…