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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™.

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Calculation of Oxygen Surface Diffusion on Bulk Oxygen
Ion Conductors

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Fritz Prinz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Fuel cell activation losses are directly related to the area of the Triple Phase Boundary, the electrochemically active area. In a solid oxide fuel cell, oxygen atoms adsorbed on the electrolyte…

Site-specific Surface Excitation of Calcium Oxide "Nanocubes"

Lead Institution
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Principal Investigator
Oliver Diwald
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #21596. The interaction between light and highly dispersed oxide materials is fundamentally important in photocatalysis,…

Time-resolved Study of Phase Transformation of In2Se3 Thin Films by PEEM

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #22791. Beginning in June, 2007 this proposal is to apply EMSL 1221's photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) to…

Surface Plasmon Polariton Dependence on Metal Surface Nano-Structure

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The project will focus initially on films of nano-structured gold metal particles. A motivation for this is that so-called nano-structured "gold black" is currently under investigation at…

Activation and Dissociation of Large Molecules in Mass Spectrometry

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Julia Laskin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #6291. Mass spectrometry is unique among instrumental analysis techniques in terms of its extraordinary sensitivity, molecular…

Desiccation of Porous Media to Limit Contaminant Migration

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Jacob Dane
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The primary attribute of soil desiccation is the removal of excess moisture from the subsurface, thereby reducing potential downward migration of water and contaminant solutes within the vadose zone…

Fundamental Studies on Biomolecule Ions Desorbed from Open-Air Surfaces

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Facundo Fernandez
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The mechanisms by which biologically-relevant molecules can be transformed into gas-phase ions is an area of active fundamental research in mass spectrometry (MS), which is relevant to a broad range…

Course in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This activity involves use of selected EMSL capabilities as one component in a course on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The course is to be held in EMSL where 50% of the time is devoted to lectures…

From Gas Phase Clusters to Nanomaterials

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #3226a. Gas phase clusters remain to be an attractive and exciting field of study for several reasons. First of all, clusters…

Phosphoproteome determination of LPA treated osteocytes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Norman Karin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Osteocytes arise from bone-forming osteoblasts that become surrounded by mineralized matrix and comprise greater than 90% of all bone cells. Osteocytes form a junctionally-connected sensory network…

Fate and transport of titanium dioxide through freshwater ecosystems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ann Miracle
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project will identify and quantify titanium dioxide (titania, TiO2) nanoparticles and its subsequent mass balance in environmental media (i.e., water, sediment and benthic/sediment dwelling…

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Nitrate Photochemistry

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in the troposphere are a major component of particulate matter and hence of interest with respect to health effects, visibility and radiative forcing. However, their…