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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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Nature of Natural Organic Matter Interactions with Mineral Surfaces

Lead Institution
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Principal Investigator
Geoffrey Bowers
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The interactions of organic- and bio-molecules with minerals play a central role in controlling soil biogeochemistry; plant nutrition; chemical processes in sediments, soils, sedimentary rocks and…

Visualizing Uranium Atom Exchange in UO2 Driven by Biogeochemical Processes

Lead Institution
Washington University in St. Louis
Principal Investigator
Daniel Giammar
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Redox-driven recrystallization of metal oxides is an exciting environmental phenomenon that can influence biogeochemical cycles of both nutrients and contaminants. This phenomena occurs in systems…

Functional characterization of a defined Panicum rhizobiome

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Esther Singer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nitrogen limitation is a global challenge for biofuel crop resilience and hence bioenergy security. Plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) can help to mitigate plant stress by forming symbiotic…

Manganese biomineralization by the bacterial protein complex Mnx

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Bradley Tebo
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Manganese-oxide mineral formation by bacterial oxidation of dissolved Mn(II) is an important process in aquatic and soil environments and is a key part of the global Mn cycle. The Mn bio-oxides…

Mechanisms of Nitrogen Fixation by Endophytes of Populus

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Sharon Doty
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Native poplar (Populus) plants have a diverse microbiota including endophytes, microorganisms that live within plants, some of which can fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into forms of nitrogen (N)…

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…

Surface Migration of Additives in Polymers

Lead Institution
Cornell University
Principal Investigator
Lynden Archer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Field-induced migration of oligomers dispersed in a host polymer is a promising method for modifying the host polymer's surface to improve properties such as paintability, biocompatibility, and…

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…

NMR for Catalyst Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Peden
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A detailed understanding of the mechanisms involved in a catalytic reaction requires that we identify the nature of the active sites and of reaction intermediates, and that we probe dynamic processes…

Multifunctional Nanostructures for Nano-Biotechnology Applications

Lead Institution
Boise State University
Principal Investigator
Alex Punnoose
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Our group at Boise State University is preparing powder and thin film samples of metla and metal oxide nanoparticles in pure and transition - metal - doped forms. We are also interested in preparing…

Biomarkers of malaria infection

Lead Institution
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Michal Fried
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This application is for the continuation and expansion of proposal 8211 "Membrane proteins of placental parasites". P. falciparum causes severe syndromes by adhering to endothelium and…

Ion Channeling Studies of Epitaxial Oxide Films and Gas-Solid interfaces.

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Karur Padmanabhan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposal addresses two important research areas using the on RBS, ion channeling and nuclear reaction analysis. EMSL ion accelerator facility will be used for both projects. The first involves…