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As a scientific user facility, 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 user projects, visit EMSL's Science Central.

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Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies on Aerosol Evolution and Aging

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objectives of this project are to characterize the time evolution of aerosol size, density, composition, and mixing state in an aerosol chamber, and b) link experiments to the development and…

Ionic Transport of Hydrogen in Structured Soft Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Cowin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We will explore how the motion of hydrogen in the form of hydronium is controlled in a nanometer-sculpted multilayer composite water/hydrocarbon film, and how the motion of the ion alters the…

Imaging Of Water and Gas Distribution in PEM Fuel Cell Stacks and Cells

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The overall objective of this project is to develop three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for in-situ, real-time monitoring of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell…

Benchmark modeling of aerosol-cloud interactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Konstantin Ovchinnikov
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal requests computing resources from the Molecular Science Computation Facilities (MSCF) to support two projects of the PNNL Aerosol-Climate Initiative: "Benchmark Modeling of the…

Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Amonette
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
One of the approaches to minimizing the possible effects of climate change stemming from the recent increases in atmospheric CO2 levels involves storing C as biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Of…

Studies on 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP) and its derivatives

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Bylaska
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The widespread use of 1,2,3-trichloropropane (1,2,3-TCP) as solvents in paint and varnish removal, cleaning and degreasing, etc. has resulted in it becoming an emerging pollutant in the environment …

Pathogen strain detection based on changes in expressed proteins

Lead Institution
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Principal Investigator
Alvin Fox
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
To demonstrate improvements in real-time recognition of protein sequence changes in intact proteins: a) improved coverage (e.g. using electron capture dissociation (ECD) and/or electron transfer…

Computational Investigation of Metal Clusters on Doped Carbon Supports

Lead Institution
University of Alabama
Principal Investigator
Christoffer Turner
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Many electronic, chemical, and physical properties are known to depend upon system size, especially when the length scale approaches nanometer or sub-nanometer dimensions. With regards to catalysis…

Laser Desorption from Metal Oxides

Lead Institution
University College London
Principal Investigator
Alexander Shlyuger
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #21794. Laser ablation and desorption techniques form the basis of unique methods for producing novel materials, performing…

Subunit structures of Arabidopsis RNA Polymerase IV complexes

Lead Institution
Indiana University - Bloomington
Principal Investigator
Craig Pikaard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
All eukaryotes have three conventional nuclear DNA-dependent RNA polymerases, abbreviated as Pol I, Pol II and Pol III. Pol I transcribe 45S pre-rRNA, pol II transcribes mRNAs and pol III…

Interfacial Excited State Dynamics on TiO2

Lead Institution
Osaka University
Principal Investigator
Katsumi Tanimura
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Interfacial excited state dynamics (ESD) plays an important role in many chemical and biological processes. Specifically, interfacial ESD in TiO2-based materials, is critical to solar energy…

Composition Analysis of Surface-Bound Nanoparticle Monolayers

Lead Institution
University of Oregon
Principal Investigator
James Hutchison
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The unique size-dependent optical and electronic properties of metal nanoparticles have generated significant interest in methods to reliably assemble these materials on surfaces. We have previously…

Non-Thermal Reactions in Thin Aqueous Films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregory Kimmel
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #21797. Energetic processes at surfaces and interfaces are important in fields such as radiation chemistry, radiation biology,…

Non-Thermal Reactions in Water Adsorbed on Anion-Doped TiO2(110)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregory Kimmel
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #18397. Development of new energy sources and alternative fuels, such as hydrogen, are major needs for the 21st century. In the…