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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. 

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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Biotemplated nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Yuehe Lin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of this project is to develop new approaches to prepare encoded bimetallic nanoparticles in protein cages for biosensing and imaging. The unique optical and electrochemical signals of…

Flow and Transport of Edible Oil Emulsions for Enhanced Bioremediation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Truex
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Recent studies have shown that edible oil emulsions, including soybean oil, can be used to enhance the biodegradation of contaminant. Edible oil emulsions are relatively immobile and biodegrade…

Energetics of Non-Covalent Interactions in Biological Systems

Lead Institution
National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator
Amina Woods
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Complex molecular systems typically include aggregates held together by non-covalent bonds that collectively exceed the strength of covalent bonds. Additionally, the important chemical processes of…

Biofilm reactor development and characterization studies

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Haluk Beyenal
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal addresses the development of biofilm-based methods for the economical production of biochemicals and bio-fuels. Biofilms have the potential to solve many of the problems of conventional…

Infiltration, Redistribution, and Dissolution of Ethanol-Blended Gasoline: Intermediate-Scale Flow Cell Experimentation to Develop a Data Base for Numerical Model Testing and Verification.

Lead Institution
University of California, Davis
Principal Investigator
Timothy Ginn
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The practice of blending ethanol into gasoline, either as an additive or a fuel replacement, is rapidly increasing in the U.S. Given the potential large impact of potential blended gasoline spills on…

Analysis of trout sperm nuclear proteins

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Irvin Schultz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We are using a fish model, the rainbow trout, as a human surrogate to investigate the reproductive consequences of xenoestrogen exposure on male reproduction. In previous studies, we documented…

Impurity Segregation and Precipitation in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Scott Dunham
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this work is to apply advanced characterization and modeling techniques to gain a fundamental understanding of segregation and precipitation processes in semiconductors. These issues are…

High-k oxides and their mixed oxide systems

Lead Institution
University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Investigator
Chintalapalle Ramana
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The miniaturization of silicon (Si) electronic devices is forcing silicon oxide (SiO2), the conventional gate dielectric, to face its size-limits where its leakage current and reliability are of…

Characterization of Mercury Reduction by Fe(II) Minerals

Lead Institution
Rutgers University
Principal Investigator
Nathan Yee
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Mercury is a key contaminant of concern found in Department of Energy sites. Because the chemical form of Hg strongly affects its toxicity and subsurface transport, there is significant interest in…

Functional Materials for Separation and Sensing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jay Grate
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A large number of mission areas of the US. DOE demand functional materials that will meet the operational requirements of targeted applications. Indeed, innovative solutions to pressing national…