Projects

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.™

Pd Nanoclusters supported on MgO(100): Effects of cluster size on chemisorption properties.

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Steven Tait

Project type

Exploratory Research

Low-temperature methane combustion for applications in electric generator turbines is catalyzed by Pd nanoparticles to minimize NOx pollution. The reaction depends on the dissociation of methane…

Pd Nanoclusters supported on MgO(100): Effects of cluster size on chemisorption properties.

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Steven Tait

Project type

Exploratory Research

Low-temperature methane combustion for applications in electric generator turbines is catalyzed by Pd nanoparticles to minimize NOx pollution. The reaction depends on the dissociation of methane…

Characterization of Defects in Nd:YAG using High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

M. Norton

Project type

Exploratory Research

Czochralski-growth YAG single crystals have been observed to crack during growth as the Nd dopant concentration is increased. Previous work has shown that the lattice strain associated with the…

Purity Analysis of Synthetic Organic Compounds

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Garry Buchko

Project type

Exploratory Research

NMR spectrometer time is requested for Dr. Garry W. Buchko (EMSL) to analyze occasional organic samples for Drs. Scott Harvey and Bob Wright. These latter NSD staff (PNNL) are both analytical…

The Role of Extracellular Polymeric Substances in Bacterial Fouling of Membranes

Lead Institution

University of Houston

Principal Investigator

Shankar Chellam

Project type

Exploratory Research

Micro- and nano-porous membranes are currently employed for environmental separations to protect public health arising from a plethora of contaminants including microorganisms, natural and synthetic…

Synthesis and Single-crystal X-ray Characterization of Cluster-Assembled Materials

Lead Institution

Brown University

Principal Investigator

Lai-Sheng Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

This program is focused on exploratory syntheses of anionic metal clusters based on our gas-phase studies. To synthesize and crystallize those anionic clusters in solid state phases using suitable…

Structural Criteria for the Design of Anion Receptors: The Interaction of Halides with Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic Compounds

Lead Institution

California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Vyacheslav Bryantsev

Project type

Exploratory Research

The goal of this project is to elucidate the nature and the magnitude of the interaction between nitrogen heterocyclic compounds and halide anions. Pyridine, imidazole, and their N-protonated and N…

Anchoring Oxidation Catalysts inside Hollow Large-Pore Nanospherical Silica Materials

Lead Institution

Michigan Technological University

Principal Investigator

Rudy Luck

Project type

Exploratory Research

The reaction between an oxygen atom and an olefin to form an epoxide remains an important research area in industrial and synthetic chemistry, because epoxides are the main ingredients in epoxy…

Detailed Characterization of Arsenic Adsorptive Media

Lead Institution

Battelle Columbus

Principal Investigator

Daniel Kremser

Project type

Exploratory Research

Adsorptive media are being evaluated and demonstrated by the U.S.EPA for their effectiveness for arsenic removal from small drinking water supplies. Data collected from an EPA-funded, multi-column…

Accelerated Fuel-Cladding Interaction Study using Surrogate Materials

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Charles Henager

Project type

Exploratory Research

A Lab-level LDRD study on acceleration of fuel-cladding science is developing a miniature specimen test capability using HT-9 cladding material and ZrO2 with and without Ga doping as nuclear fuel…

NMR and EPR Structural Characterization of c-Type Cytochromes and their Complexes from Contaminant Metal Remediating Iron-Respiring Bacteria

Lead Institution

Idaho State University

Principal Investigator

Timothy Magnuson

Project type

Exploratory Research

Abstract: While significant progress has been made regarding the genetics and genomics of dissimilatory metal-transforming bacteria and the redox proteins they possess, very little has yet been done…

Development of Tunable THz Sources using Focused Ion Beam (FIB)-Based Lithography

Lead Institution

Alfred University

Principal Investigator

S Sundaram

Project type

Exploratory Research

The terahertz (THz) regime (0.1-10 THz) is rich with emerging possibilities in sensing, imaging and communications, with unique applications to screening for weapons, explosives and biohazards,…

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)…

Exploration of the cell parameter and thermal expansion behavior in Au and ZrW2O8 nanoparticles

Lead Institution

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Principal Investigator

Jon Kellar

Project type

Exploratory Research

. The phenomenon of negative coefficient of thermal expansion (NTE), where materials shrink upon heating instead of cooling, has recently been attracting considerable attention. Dimensionally…

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:&#61472;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…

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…

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