Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (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 EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

Chemistry of Cadmium Zinc Telluride surfaces after processing

Lead Institution

eV Products

Principal Investigator

Ambrosio Rouse

Project type

Exploratory Research

The study of some of the potential contamination issues of processed and non-processed Cadmiun Zinc Telluride surfaces. Initial XPS analysis of the surfaces will be performed in order to detect…

Chemistry of Cadmium Zinc Telluride surfaces after processing

Lead Institution

eV Products

Principal Investigator

Ambrosio Rouse

Project type

Exploratory Research

The study of some of the potential contamination issues of processed and non-processed Cadmiun Zinc Telluride surfaces. Initial XPS analysis of the surfaces will be performed in order to detect…

Cavitation damage with the dual-reflector lithotripter

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Dahlia Sokolov

Project type

Exploratory Research

Most patients treated for kidney stones undergo extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), a method by which high intensity shock waves are focused at the site of the stone. Although ESWL is the…

Investigation of Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Commercial Glass Samples

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Chester Shepard

Project type

Exploratory Research

Glass containing iron ions fluorescences when irradiated with light at 380 nm. The fluorescence lifetime is temperature dependent and either lifetime measurements or total fluorescence signal…

Toward preparation and operando characterization of nanostructured heterogeneous photocatalysts

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Glen Fryxell

Project type

Exploratory Research

This proposal involves the use of EMSL facilities to characterize nanostructured TiO2 and its dopants. Standard structural tools will be used to characterize the TiO2 nanophases before and after…

TV glass investigation

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Albert Mendoza

Project type

Exploratory Research

Look for fluorescence in TV glass

Scanning Electron Microscopic Analysis of Hanford Soil Mineral Particles treated with Highly Alkaline Solutions

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Shas Mattigod

Project type

Exploratory Research

Objective: To examine the effects of alkali attack on morphology of detrital minerals from Hanford Formation. Approach: SEM-EDX will be used to analyze chemical and morphological characterisitics of…

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…

TEM and SEM identification and characterization of aluminosilicate precipitates from high pH solutions containing Al in contact with quartz

Lead Institution

Brigham Young University

Principal Investigator

Barry Bickmore

Project type

Exploratory Research

We are performing batch kinetics experiments where we place quartz sand in contact with high pH, high ionic strength solutions with varying amounts of Al (90 C). So far we have found that when the…

Thickness measurement of ion irradiated specimens thinned for transmission electron microscopy

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Taira Okita

Project type

Exploratory Research

Specimens of Fe-16Ni-15Cr were bombarded earlier with nickel ions to produce swelling. These specimens are not radioactive. The specimens will be thinned from the front surface to a depth of about…

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…

Thermal Analysis of Photopolymerized Polyacrylate thin films

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Linda Sapochak

Project type

Exploratory Research

Many times photopolymerization of a formulation mixture does not go all the way to completion. Smaller oligomeric components added to the formulation to aid in mechanical, adhesive and/or thermal…

Determination of residual free radical species in photopolymerized polyacrylate thin films and composite layers by ESR.

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Linda Sapochak

Project type

Exploratory Research

The presence of free radical species in coatings used in the electronics packaging industry may be detrimental to the operation of a device. The extent, if any of free radical species in…