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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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Finite Element Modeling of Bubbles in Yield Stress Materials

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Liu
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research seeks to examine the interactions of bubbles in yield stress, or visco-plastic materials. Such materials include paints, foodstuffs, waste sludges and slurries, fermentation broths, and…

Genomic dissection of copper metabolism in S. cerevisiae

Lead Institution
University of Florida
Principal Investigator
Chris Vulpe
Project type
Exploratory Research
Copper is an essential yet potentially toxic in cells and organisms because. Because copper ions readily gain and lose electrons they are cofactor of enzymes involved in the utilization of oxygen by…

Studies on drug release from biodegradable hydrogels

Lead Institution
Advanced Imaging Technologies
Principal Investigator
Anna Gutowska
Project type
Exploratory Research
HPLC analysis on released drug from the hydrogel This project is preparation of in-situ gelling polymer and applications to the drug delivery and tissue engineering. To analyze released drug from…

Surface Structural Determination of SrTiO3(100) surface using AR-MSRI

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Li-Qiong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal involves using angle-resolved mass-spectroscopy of recoiled ions (AR-MSRI) to investigate the surface structure of SrTiO3(100). A stoichiometric SrTiO3(100) surface has two possible…

FTICR-mass spectrometry

Lead Institution
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Principal Investigator
Bernd Moritz
Project type
Exploratory Research
In summer we will get a Fourier transform mass spectrometer in our lab. We want to support our analyses by the high resolving power of such an instrument. As I will be the operator of this mass…

Carbon nanotube synthesis and applicaitons

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Xiaoyi Gong
Project type
Exploratory Research
SEM is needed to identify the carbon nanotubes. James S. Young's participation in the proposed project is very important.

Measurement of specific surface areas of soot powder

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Disselkamp
Project type
Exploratory Research
Anna from Lou Balmer's group measured specific surface area's of soot powders using an rxm-100 instrument.

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…

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…

TV glass investigation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Albert Mendoza
Project type
Exploratory Research
Look for fluorescence in TV glass

Near Real-time Alkene Sensor for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Monitoring

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Reza Shekarriz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal for the proposed project is to be able to take advantage of the current investments made at EMSL for the development of TDS to evaluate the potential for combining the TDS with the current…

MeV Ion Irradiation of Galilean Satellite compositional analogues

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will explore the effects that MeV irradaion has on candidate compositional analogues of surface non-ice materials s of the the Galilean satellites Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. The…

Mev He Ion Implantation in Si Wafers

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Exploratory Research
The aim of this proposed work is to probe the inter-defect distribution (IDD) model that relates the phonon correlation length to the ion dose received by a material such as silicon. Previous…

18-Oxygen uptake measurements on Ceramic samples

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Kerstetter
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to measure the 18-oxygen uptake on several ceramic samples (La-Sr-Cr-Fe-O). The uptake of the 18-oxygen will be measured using the nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) at…