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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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Biological Templates f or Synthesis of Ordered Ceramic Nanostructures

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The synthesis of nano-architectured materials continues to be an evolving research area in nanoscience and nanotechnology because structural complexity enables often unexpected physical and chemical…

Nanoscale Enzyme Reactors (NERs) for Biofuel Cells

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Su Ha
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Enzyme-based biofuel cells use immobilized enzymes on electrodes for the conversion of chemical energy of biofuels (such as glucose, ethanol, or oil) to the electrical energy (Figure 1a). One of the…

Desiccation of Porous Media to Limit Contaminant Migration

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Jacob Dane
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The primary attribute of soil desiccation is the removal of excess moisture from the subsurface, thereby reducing potential downward migration of water and contaminant solutes within the vadose zone…

Fundamental Studies on Biomolecule Ions Desorbed from Open-Air Surfaces

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Facundo Fernandez
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The mechanisms by which biologically-relevant molecules can be transformed into gas-phase ions is an area of active fundamental research in mass spectrometry (MS), which is relevant to a broad range…

Course in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This activity involves use of selected EMSL capabilities as one component in a course on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The course is to be held in EMSL where 50% of the time is devoted to lectures…

From Gas Phase Clusters to Nanomaterials

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #3226a. Gas phase clusters remain to be an attractive and exciting field of study for several reasons. First of all, clusters…

Phosphoproteome determination of LPA treated osteocytes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Norman Karin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Osteocytes arise from bone-forming osteoblasts that become surrounded by mineralized matrix and comprise greater than 90% of all bone cells. Osteocytes form a junctionally-connected sensory network…

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Nitrate Photochemistry

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in the troposphere are a major component of particulate matter and hence of interest with respect to health effects, visibility and radiative forcing. However, their…

MITOTIC REGULATION OF THE NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEIN INTERACTION NETWORK

Lead Institution
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Stephen Osmani
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Eukaryotic cells segregate DNA equally to daughter cells during mitosis. Although mitosis is well characterized, it is poorly understood at the molecular level. The most extensive and least…

A proteomic investigation of changes in lipid droplet-bound proteins

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Steven Gross
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Lipid droplets are the body's major location for storing fat to be later used as energy. As such, understanding the regulated function of these droplets is an essential part of understanding…

Nanomaterials for Chelation Therapies and Sensing Applications

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Wassana Yantasee
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The self-assembled monolayer on mesoporous support (SAMMS) materials, functionalized magnetic nanoparticles, and carbon nanotubes are three emerging important nanomaterials that have many promising…

Platelet proteome for normal and type-2 diabetics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Springer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Abstract Our proposal entitled "Platelet proteome for normal and type-2 diabetics" is funded by NIH through an R21 grant. The research is designed to characterize the proteome from human…