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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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Crystal Perfection in Cadmium Zinc Telluride Radiation Detectors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mary Bliss
Project type
Exploratory Research
This effort is to collect high resolution x-ray diffraction data to correlate with thermally stimulated current measurements. The samples are cadmium zinc telluride which have the potential to be…

Investigations of a water doser for UHV ice studies

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Jason Donev
Project type
Exploratory Research
We want to look at ice in a UHV system. We have designed and built a water vapour transport system for ultra high vacuum. We need to test the ice that is deposited on a substrate with our…

Evaluation of SGI VRML Java bean and Cosmo development environment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Thurman
Project type
Exploratory Research
In support of the Computational Science and Engineering Initiative, we are developing a prototype collaborative environment to support multi-step finite element analysis processes. This effort is…

Analysis of chemical biosignatures in rock

Lead Institution
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pamela Conrad
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are developing strategy and methods for non-Earthcentric life detection. We define biosignatures as measurable chemistry and structures found over several scales of observation. We are presently…

Nano polyaniline prepared by electrochemical polymerization

Lead Institution
Tsinghua University
Principal Investigator
Jun Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
We proposal to prepare the nanopolyaniline, one of conductive polymer on the surface of platinum plate by electrochemical polymerization. By changing the reaction conditions, the desired morphology…

Isotopic Labelling in the Dry Reforming of Methane

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
William Thomson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the experiment is to determine the degree to which the carbon in a fresh carbide catalyst participates in the dry reforming of methane. This will be accomplished by utilizing C13…

Inactivation of Monomeric Sarcosine Oxidase by a Suicide Substrate

Lead Institution
MCP Hahnemann University
Principal Investigator
Marilyn Jorns
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have recently determined the kinetic mechanism of inactivation of monomeric sarcosine oxidase by N-(cyclopropyl)glycine (CPG), a sarcosine analog which acts as a suicide substrate and covalently…

Identification of Nonpeptide Antigens for gamma delta T Cells

Lead Institution
University of Iowa
Principal Investigator
Craig Morita
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this proposal, we plan to characterize nonpeptide antigens for gamma delta T cells. Human gd T cells expressing Vg2Vd2 T cell receptors recognize nonpeptide antigens. We identified one antigen…

Studies of Liquid Layers on Ice Surfaces

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Paul Shepson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ice and snow in nature appears to have important roles in the air chemistry of the polar region, and in temperate regions in winter. Much is presumed to occur in thin (somes single molecule thick)…