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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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White Layer Characterization

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
William Wood
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metallurgists have widely reported a thin, featureless layer on the surface of sliding components in many industrires. It has been called white layer due to its resistance to chemical etching. The…

Dilute magnetic semiconducting oxide thin films and nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Kannan Krishnan
Project type
Exploratory Research
As JIN Award 2002, we propose to investigate the growth, magnetic properties and spin-dependent transport in the recently discovered Co-doped anatase ferromagnetic semiconductor thin films. Emphasis…

Characterization of Sn Whiskers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
M. Norton
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sn whiskers have for long been known as a failure mechanism in electronic components. This study seeks to determine the origin of Sn whiskers and their growth mechanism. In this collaboration with…

Growth of MOCVD ZnO on CIGSS Solar Cells

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Sambhu Kundu
Project type
Exploratory Research
CIGSS Solar Cell struture needs a intrinsic buffer layer. That is called intrinsic ZnO layer. We want to grow MOCVD ZnO on Mo-coated CIGSS

Ab initio calculations of oxide deposition on 3,5 semiconductors

Lead Institution
University of California, San Diego
Principal Investigator
Jonathan Sexton
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to use pseudopotential plane wave methods as implemented in NWChem to study the properties of oxide deposition on GaAs and InAs semiconductors. NWChem calculations will be used to optimize…

Texture Studies of Aluminum Extrusion

Lead Institution
CANMET-MTL
Principal Investigator
Valery Guertsman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Examine several samples (up to 5) in an x-ray texure diffractometer and plot (111) and (311) pole figures.

ICAT labeling of P aeruginosa membrane subproteome

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Wenzhong Xiao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the top three causes of life-threatening infections in cystic fibrosis, burn, HIV, and cancer patients. The pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa is complex. This proposed…

SIMS Analysis of Nickel-Silicon Multilayers

Lead Institution
University of Oregon
Principal Investigator
David Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nickel monosilicide (NiSi) has been identified as a key contact material for next-generation VLSI technology. NiSi is conventionally prepared through the solid state reaction of a thin Ni film with…

Determination of the proteome of drosophila lipid droplets

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Steven Gross
Project type
Exploratory Research
My research goal is to understand the way molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein move cargos in vivo. To investigate this, I have developed a model system, the bi-directional transport of lipid…

Mechanisms of Fe Biomineralization Induced By Dissimilatory Iron Reduction

Lead Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Principal Investigator
Colleen Hansel
Project type
Exploratory Research
Iron minerals are ubiquitous in nature and play a critical role in the geochemical cycling of trace elements. In particular, iron oxides serve as potent sorbents and repositories for nutrients and…

Mechanisms of Fe Biomineralization Induced By Dissimilatory Iron Reduction

Lead Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Principal Investigator
Colleen Hansel
Project type
Exploratory Research
Iron minerals are ubiquitous in nature and play a critical role in the geochemical cycling of trace elements. In particular, iron oxides serve as potent sorbents and repositories for nutrients and…

Spectroscopy and microscopy of doped TiO2 nanocrystalline materials

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Daniel Gamelin
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to synthesize and characterize by XRD, TEM, and possibly EPR spectroscopy a series of nanocrystalline ferromagnetic oxide semiconductor materials of direct relevance to spintronics…

Spectroscopy and microscopy of doped TiO2 nanocrystalline materials

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Daniel Gamelin
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to synthesize and characterize by XRD, TEM, and possibly EPR spectroscopy a series of nanocrystalline ferromagnetic oxide semiconductor materials of direct relevance to spintronics…

Fuel Reforming Catalyst Characterization

Lead Institution
Innovatek, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Patricia Irving
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the proposed work is to characterize catalyst formulations under development at InnovaTek for reforming hydrocarbon fuels to generate hydrogen for fuel cells. The proprietary…

Determination of Valance Band Offset in Sr2TiO4/SrTiO3 heterostructures

Lead Institution
Pennsylvania State University
Principal Investigator
Jeff Haeni
Project type
Exploratory Research
The ultimate goal of this research is the creation of a 2D electron gas in heterostructures comprised of members of the Sr-Ti-O Ruddlesden Popper homologous series. An understanding of the…

Biomineralization peptides structure and function

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
My work includes looking at biomineralization peptides on inorganic surfaces to determine their structure and relate that to function. In order to do this, I must confirm that I have a pure peptide…

Measurement of Absolute Infrared Absorption Cross Sections of Nitric Acid

Lead Institution
NASA Ames Research Center
Principal Investigator
Charles Chackerian
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will use EMSL's Bruker IFS 120 high resolution infrared spectrometer to measure the absolute infrared absorption cross sections of nitric acid in the mid and far infrared regions.