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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.™ 

 

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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…

Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Graphite

Lead Institution
UCAR Carbon Company Inc.
Principal Investigator
Samina Azad
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Majority of the energy requirement of many industrial processes is met through utilization of reactions of carbon and carbonaceous materials with oxygen, steam, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The…

High-resolution interfacial studies of nano-scale oxide films

Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Shriram Ramanathan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Thin film transition metal-oxides are of great interest to a number of areas ranging from nano-electronic devices to alternate energy technologies. We propose to use the unique ion beam facilities at…

Characterization of Novel DNA/Semiconductor Nanoconjugates

Lead Institution
California State University, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
Feimeng Zhou
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposed study is to develop a controllable methodology by which the inorganic compounds can be evenly grown along the DNA template at molecular level and investigate the impact of various…

Post Growth Analysis of compositionally graded InGaN Grown with MOCVD

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Under the seed funding recently obtained from Semiconductor Research Corporation (Research Triangle, NC), we are investigating nitride-based quantum well structures for the development of direct…

Compositionally Graded V2O5 for Improved Thermoelectric Power

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Conversion of waste heat into useful energy in many applications including automobile exhausts has received considerable attention, recently. As such, there is a growing interest in synthesizing…

Amorphous Semiconductor Analysis using Ion Beam Tools

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this proposal is to develop new materials for high resolution, room temperature gamma radiation detection. We propose to develop high Z, high resistivity, amorphous, semiconductors to be…

Fundamental Studies of Nitrogen Oxide Surface chemistry: A Model System approach

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janos Szanyi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In our proposed research we will employ a model system approach to elucidate the structure-reactivity relationships of base-metal oxide nanostructures supported on planar oxide substrates. The major…

Environmental proteomic analysis of anaerobic methane oxidizing systems

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Steven Hallam
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Prokaryotic microorganisms represent the majority of living things on Earth. In many cases, interdependent constituents of this vast microbial biota play decisive roles in defining biogeochemical…

A Proteomic Dissection of the Hg(II) Toxicity Paradox

Lead Institution
University of Georgia
Principal Investigator
Anne Summers
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Mercury (Hg) in all its forms is a contaminant at most DOE sites, especially at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where the spread of spilled Hg and its effects on microbial populations have been…