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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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Grape Berry Shrivel: A Study of Anatomical and Ultrastructural Changes

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Bhaskar Bondada
Project type
Exploratory Research
There is a great concern for new ripening disorder known as Berry Shrivel to grape growers and wine makers worldwide. The origin of this problem appear to be physiological disorder entailing…

Photodesorption of Organic Radicals from TiO2(110)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Henderson
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose examining the role that photodesorption processes play in heterogeneous photocatalytic decomposition of organics over titanium dioxide using the rutile TiO2(110) and anatase TiO2(001)…

Enabling PVFS2 Support over Quadrics for MPP2 cluster

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Weikuan Yu
Project type
Exploratory Research
This is to propose to develop and evaluate a prototype implementation of PVFS2 over Qaudrics in order to accomplish a beta-quality code base that is usable at PNNL. Evan Felix and David Brown…

Enabling PVFS2 Support over Quadrics for MPP2 cluster

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Weikuan Yu
Project type
Exploratory Research
NOTE: This proposal is an extension of a proposal you reviewed last year. He wants to be able to use MPP2-Quadrics Elan4 as long as MPP2 is still up and running. This is to propose to further…

3D Imaging of Organic Nanoparticle Fillers in Organic Matrices

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
John Simonsen
Project type
Exploratory Research
The addition of fillers to polymer matrices is well known to affect their performance, from improving mechanical properties to barrier properties to membrane performance, depending upon the filler…

Growth of Ti-doped Epitaxial alpha-Fe2O3(0001) Thin Films

Lead Institution
Canadian Light Source Inc.
Principal Investigator
Chang-Yong Kim
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to grow epitaxial Ti:alpha-Fe2O3 thin films (200 Å thick) with low Ti concentrations (2% and 4%) and to apply the X-ray standing wave (XSW) imaging method to obtain the atomic…

Growth-phase regulation of the proteome of Rhodobacter capsulatus.

Lead Institution
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Principal Investigator
Andrew Lang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The alpha-proteobacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus uses a histidyl-aspartyl signaling system for growth-phase-dependent regulation of expression of some genes. The response regulator protein CtrA is…

Growth of Single Crystal La2CuO(4+delta) films

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steve Heald
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recently La2CuO(4+delta) was found to undergo an interesting light-induced transient phase transition. We propose to use XAFS to look at the local structural changes occurring about the Cu and La…

Single Molecule Studies of Multi-Chromophoric Foldamers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
Folding is a strategy ubiquitously used by nature to accomplish remarkable functions such as molecular recognition and enzymatic chemical catalysis. Since we are unable to design synthetic polymers…

Computer Simulation of Defects and Interfaces in Nuclear Fuel Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ram Devanathan
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this proposal is to simulate the synergistic effects of radiation damage, elevated temperature and stress on microstructural evolution and fission gas bubble evolution in nuclear…

A proteomic perspective of biodiversity

Lead Institution
National Ecological Observatory Network
Principal Investigator
John Parnell
Project type
Exploratory Research
- The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability has become a central focus for ecologists, particularly in the face of environmental stresses and global climate change. Although…

Material Interactions at Interfaces in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Hardy
Project type
Exploratory Research
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are multicomponent devices that operate at high temperatures (>700C) to efficiently convert chemical energy to electrical energy. Because the components of an SOFC…

Investigating Post-translational modifications of kinesin

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Steven Gross
Project type
Exploratory Research
Molecular motor-based transport is essential for numerous cellular functions, and much of it is carried out by the molecular motor kinesin. Impaired or altered kinesin function is implicated in many…

Breast Cancer Biomarkers in Nipple Aspirate Fluid

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Zangar
Project type
Exploratory Research
Breast cancer is responsible for ~43,000 deaths per year, a number which could be reduced dramatically by early detection of the disease. Currently, detection of breast cancer relies primarily on…