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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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Clusters of Damage in Irradiated DNA

Lead Institution
Colorado State University
Principal Investigator
John Zimbrick
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This EMSL project will increase our knowledge of the spatial characteristics of the free radical damage at the interface between the physical deposition of energy in DNA from gamma irradiation and…

Refroming of Hydrocarbons on Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Strohm
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The work to be performed is to characterize materials used during reforming of methane and other hydrocarbons. Nickel-based anodes (of powder and plate form) used in solid oxide fuel cells and/or…

Response of Radiation Detector Materials to Ions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Brian Milbrath
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project will provide a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that control the response of materials to ion energy deposition. The goal is to develop fast screening techniques to…

Transparent Circuits

Lead Institution
Clarkson University
Principal Investigator
Feng Hua
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose to apply nanomaterials and nanofabrication to the production of transparent circuits in large area on both rigid and flexible substrates. The project starts from the fabrication of an N…

Zinc oxide: a material for efficient light emission

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Matthew Mccluskey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for a range of applications. A wide-bandgap semiconductor, ZnO emits light in the blue-to-UV region…

Deep Desulphurization of Hot Coal Gas for Production of Liquid Fuels

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The production of liquid fuel from coal via gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is one of the few feasible strategies for improving the nation's energy security. The energy efficiency of…

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE), based on direct injection (DI) technology has the best potential to provide very high power density with diesel-like efficiency and very low emissions…

Model oxide defects with vicinally stepped NiO(100) substrates

Lead Institution
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Principal Investigator
Marjorie Langell
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose atomic force microscopy (AFM) studies of vicinally-stepped NiO(001) substrates designed to present periodic surface atomic edge sites and narrow terraces of constant atomic width. The…

Directed Self-Assembly of Metal Oxide Island Nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Virginia
Principal Investigator
James Groves
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Nanocrystalline Oxide Film Structures Proposal focuses on oxide Quantum Dots (QDs). Interface controlled, self-assembled oxide quantum dots (QDs) are…