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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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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…

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…

Characterization of synthesised mixed valent natuarlly occuring Fe-films

Lead Institution
University of Greifswald
Principal Investigator
Georg Grathoff
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A new mixed-valent (ferric-ferrous) precursor to ferrihydrite, a floating iron film often misidentified as an oil film, has been identified and preliminarily characterized. This mixed-valent iron…

NMR Study of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Z. Gary Yang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In the past two years, PNNL has collaborated with the University of Connecticut with aims to develop nanostructured hydrides and to obtain insights into the hydrogen desorption and sorption of the…

Host Cell Interactions with Human Infectious Diseases, Straub

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Timothy Straub
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Pathogenesis is a complex biological process between the human host and the infectious disease agent. In our previous successful collaboration with EMSL scientists (EMSL Project 16297), which lead…

Propane Reforming Process Development

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Dagle
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposed project is to investigate the conversion of propane to a hydrogen-rich reformate stream for commercially-deployed portable fuel cell applications. Most of these applications occur in…

Maria Salazar-villalpando's Proposal

Lead Institution
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Maria Salazar-villalpando
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Understanding the reaction mechanism of carbon formation is required in order to find solutions to avoid catalyst deactivation during the partial oxidation methane for syngas (H2 and CO) generation,…

Calculation of Oxygen Surface Diffusion on Bulk Oxygen
Ion Conductors

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Fritz Prinz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Fuel cell activation losses are directly related to the area of the Triple Phase Boundary, the electrochemically active area. In a solid oxide fuel cell, oxygen atoms adsorbed on the electrolyte…

Mossbauer and XPS Characterization of Fe-Based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts

Lead Institution
Research Triangle Institute
Principal Investigator
Velu Subramani
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal seeks to characterize fresh and used Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalysts prepared at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) using combined Mossbauer and X-ray…