Projects

Investigating the Effects of Geologic CO2 Sequestration on Microbial Physiology, Metabolism and Functionality.

Lead Institution

Colorado State University

Principal Investigator

Michael Wilkins

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The injection of greenhouse gases into deep geologic formations offers a promising strategy for reducing emissions into the atmosphere that contribute to global warming. The injection of CO2 as a…

Computational Studies of "Covalent Hydration" Reactions Involving Non-innocent 2-2'-bipyridine Ligands Within Ru Water Oxidation Catalysts

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Aurora Clark

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The notion that bipyridine ligands in catalysts such as [Ru(bpy)3]3+ and the "blue dimer" [(bpy)2Ru(OH2)]2O4+ might participate in water oxidation through formation of OH-substituted…

Integrating intact protein proteomics with ChIP-Seq for identification and functional characterization of epigenetic histone modifications

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

David Stenoien

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Biological systems are exceedingly more complex than defined by the genome due to differential protein expression and degradation, altered mRNA splicing, and the presence of multiple post…

In-Situ Pore-Scale Measurement of Multi-Fluid Distributions, Configurations, and Mobilization in Multiphase Porous Media Systems

Lead Institution

University of Arizona

Principal Investigator

Mark Brusseau

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Multi-fluid flow and contaminant fate and transport in the environment are controlled at a fundamental level by pore-scale properties such as immiscible-fluid distribution and morphology. Though…

Fe oxide and organic carbon interactions: implications for global carbon sequestration

Lead Institution

Colorado State University

Principal Investigator

Thomas Borch

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Iron (Fe) minerals can have large specific surface areas and reactive functional groups, which make them strong sorbents for soil nutrients, contaminants, and organic matter (OM), therefore,…

Solid State NMR Characterization of SOC in a Subalpine Forest Wetland to Determine Mobility

Lead Institution

Colorado State University

Principal Investigator

Thomas Borch

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The influence of wetland soils on the global carbon cycle is greatly underestimated. As hydrological regimes are predicted to change with a warming global environment, understanding the impact of…

Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Defect Chemistry of LaFeO3 (010) Surfaces

Lead Institution

University of Florida

Principal Investigator

Susan Sinnott

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

LaFeO3 is the base material of La(1-x)SrxCoyFe(1-y)O3, which is a potential candidate for solid oxide fuel cell cathode. The proposed work aims to investigate the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on…

Quantifying the Reactive Surface Area of Environmental Materials

Lead Institution

University of California, Merced

Principal Investigator

Peggy O'Day

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A large number of natural and anthropogenic processes in our environment are dominated by chemical reactions at the interface between solid and aqueous phases. These reactions include the adsorption…

Molecular-Scale Assessment of Technetium and Iodine Phase Chemistry in Fluidized Bed Steam Reformer Waste Form

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James Amonette

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Technetium (99Tc) and radioactive iodine (129I) are long-lived fission products found in nuclear waste. Their abundance coupled with their long half-lives and aqueous mobility, make them the two…

Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes by Multidimensional High-Field Magic-Angle Spinning NMR

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Chad Rienstra

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We aim to explore the limits of performance for high-field (900 MHz) magic-angle spinning NMR studies of non-crystalline solid proteins, in order to solve high-resolution structures of macromolecular…

Quantify cellular and sub-cellular nanoparticle dose for developing predictive models to support accurate dose-response assessments

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Justin Teeguarden

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Nanomaterials represent a new class of materials with unique physical and chemical properties with the now widely acknowledged potential to enable new technological advancements in multiple…

NMR-based metabolomics of the enteropathogens Salmonella and Yersinia

Lead Institution

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Principal Investigator

Kathleen McAteer

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The goal of this research is to analyze and reconstruct intercellular and intracellular networks in Salmonella and Yersinia using multiple types of -omics data. Although we hope to gain a more…

Influence of Conformal Coatings on the Mechanisms of Nucleation and Growth of Sn Whiskers, and Potential Impact on Mitigation

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Indranath Dutta

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The worldwide acceptance of the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances act (RoHS), meant to reduce Pb contamination in the environment, has resulted in reemergence of the of…

First-principle Studies for Correlated Materials

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Enrique Batista

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This proposal is to request computational resources in the Chinook cluster for the coming three fiscal years. Our intention is to continue studies on actinide materials that we started with an open…

Decomposition Pathways of Glycerol on Titania-supported Pt and Cu Nanocatalysts

Lead Institution

Baylor University

Principal Investigator

Zhenrong Zhang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Understanding the reaction mechanism is a key issue in the development of catalysts that can effectively convert glycerol, a top listed biomass-derived feedstock, to value-added chemicals. The…

Detection of low levels of organic compounds associated with microbially influenced minerals

Lead Institution

University of Montana

Principal Investigator

Nancy Hinman

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

One of the challenges facing subsurface science is detection of paired information about microbial communities and associated minerals. One way to map microbial communities is through detection of…

Influence of Phase-Changing Medium on Surface-Enhanced Electromagnetic Fields and Coherence Lifetime of Active Plasmonic Nanostructures

Lead Institution

Vanderbilt University

Principal Investigator

Richard Haglund

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The miniaturization of photonic circuits is critical to 21st century data processing and telecommunication technologies. Plasmonics, based on the optical properties of metallic nanostructures, holds…

Sorption of aqueous organic molecules and amino acids on mineral surfaces: determination of binding geometry, local water structure and topological interactions

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Glenn Waychunas

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A large frontier in geochemistry is the interaction of organic species with mineral surfaces. Compared to inorganic sorbates which form covalent and hydrogen bonds, organic structures may have…

Integration of multiple 'omics data sets into a predictive model of biofuel production in E. coli and S. cerevisiae

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Hector Garcia Martin

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to integrate transcriptomics, proteomic, metabolomic and 13C labeling data to create a multi-scale model of cellular metabolism able to predict quantitatively the amount of biofuel flux…

Probing surface hydroxyls of iron oxides by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

Lead Institution

Umea University

Principal Investigator

Jean-Francois Boily

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This work was devised to contribute to a new basis of understanding of mineral surface reactivity using Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) spectroscopy. As it is primordially focused on iron oxide…