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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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Near Real-time Alkene Sensor for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Monitoring

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Reza Shekarriz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL 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…

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…

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…

The Study of Atomic Gold Clusters in Polyaniline

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Miraslawa Josowicz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Previous reserch done in our Group in collaboration with the PNNL scientists, Don Baer and Mark Engelhard, has shown that polyaniline (PANI) can be used as a matrix for formation of Au clusters. By a…

TEM Study on SOFC Interconnects and Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Z. Gary Yang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In recent years, progress in materials and fabrication techniques have allowed for a reduction in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) operating temperatures to a range (e.g., 650-800ºC) where oxidation…

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…