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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.

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Atomically Resolved Studies of Transition Metal Oxides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
STM and AFM studies will be conducted on surfaces of small crystalline domains and epitaxially grown thin TMO films such as γ-WO3(001), TiO2(110), and V2O5/TiO2(110). Such studies give…

Hydrogen storage of chemical hydrides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
Study the hydrogen storage capability of some chemical hydrides, including NH3-BH3 doped materials, and NaLiH4 doped materials. The study will be carried out using the RXM-100 system, to measure…

Crystallization Behavior of Bulk Amorphous Alloy

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Amit Bandyopadhyay
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are working with Zr-based bulk amorphous alloy composition. The glass transition temperature for these alloys are ~400 C and the melting point is ~900 C. We have heat treated these alloys at…

Kiln Phosphoric Acid

Lead Institution
JDC, Inc
Principal Investigator
Joseph Megy
Project type
Exploratory Research
Determing the reaction temperature and melting temperature of phosphate ore mexture. TGA-DTA measurements will allow proof of concept for chemistry supporting SBIR program in phosphoric acid…

Charcaterization of the Au nano-cluster materials

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Hai-Feng Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
These are some attached information for the EMSL proposal No. 5401 titled "the synthesis of Au nanocluster materials". Once we obtain the nanoclusters materials, we have to use…

Hydrogenation of pyrolysis oils to create gasoline.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pyrolysis Oil to Gasoline Introduction In the DOE report "Opportunities for Biorenewables in Oil Refineries," refined pyrolysis oils were shown to have the potential to replace a…

Characterization of Lithium Aluminate Powders

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Enriched lithium aluminate powders have been commercially produced for high-yield, high-through-put, dry press preparation of low temperature sintered pellets. These pellets are used for the tritium…

Proteomic Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans Under Oxidative StressIrradiation

Lead Institution
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Principal Investigator
Michael Daly
Project type
Exploratory Research
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive extremely high doses of gamma-radiation and we have recently shown that high intracellular concentrations of Mn(II) facilitate resistance by…

Neuro-Linguistic Progranning History

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this project, I will be providing 3-D animation in support of a video production, that deals with the topic of behavioral linguistic programming.

Deposition of Metal-Doped Oxides for Spintronic Applications

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tiffany Kaspar
Project type
Exploratory Research
For spintronic devices such as spin-FETs, efficient injection of spin-polarized electrons into a semiconductor material is necessary. For devices compatible with current semiconductor technology,…

Deploy Lustre as a global Filesystem on the HPCS2 Supercomputer

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Evan Felix
Project type
Exploratory Research
Inorder to support the need of the HPCS2 Computer system, the Lustre filesystem will be used. To Deploy this system research will need to be done to fully balance the IO throughput rates and system…

Deploy Lustre as a global Filesystem on the HPCS2 Supercomputer

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Evan Felix
Project type
Exploratory Research
Inorder to support the need of the HPCS2 Computer system, the Lustre filesystem will be used. To Deploy this system research will need to be done to fully balance the IO throughput rates and system…

In situ XPS measurements of Reforming Catalysts

Lead Institution
Research Triangle Institute
Principal Investigator
Velu Subramani
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is to perform in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization of some reforming (powder) catalysts. We, at Penn State University, under the supervision of Prof.Chunshan…