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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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Local structure in zirconia-based nuclear fuels and transmutation targets

Lead Institution
University of Cambridge
Principal Investigator
Ian Farnan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A programme of work is proposed to understand local ordering in inert matrix nuclear fuels based on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). This information is unobtainable using diffraction techniques…

Nerve Agent Detection Using Enzyme-Coated Nanowires

Lead Institution
Pennsylvania State University
Principal Investigator
Seong Kim
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose a research program to prepare, characterize, and apply enzyme-coated nanowires to the detection of nerve agents. The substrate specificity of enzymatic reactions renders a great potential…

Soft-Landing of Complex Ions on Surfaces

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Robert Cooks
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Interaction of ions with surfaces is an area of active fundamental research in surface science relevant to a broad range of other scientific disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science such as…

Substrate-specific binding of Staphylococcus adhesins to solid surfaces

Lead Institution
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Steven Lower
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A nearly universal trait of bacteria is their ability to attach to solid surfaces. Attached cells often form biofilms that are implicated in a significant amount of human infections and have been…

Quorum Sensing in a Dissimilatory Metal Reducing Bacterium

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Hochella
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Quorum sensing is a versatile regulatory mechanism exhibited by several members of Bacteria. Even though this area of research is a rapidly growing field with clear environmental applications, it…

Raman Capability for EMSL Users

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nancy Hess
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Currently users of the EMSL facility do not have access to a to a dedicated Raman system. The objective of this proposal is to establish a usage agreement between the Environmental Spectroscopy…

Molecular Level Construction of Functional Surfaces

Lead Institution
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Sergiu Gorun
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of the proposed work is to develop procedures for molecular level construction of layers of hybrid organic inorganic composites exhibiting divergent, but useful properties. Examples of…

Chemistry of Aerosols in Mexico City: MILAGRO 2006 study.

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mary Gilles
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations) Campaign in Mexico City 2006 was a collaborative effort with the DOE Atmospheric Science Program, the NSF MIRAGE-Mex field…

Chemical and Physical Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosol

Lead Institution
Colorado State University
Principal Investigator
Jenny Hand
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Biomass burning is one of the most important single sources of carbonaceous particles emitted into atmosphere mostly as a result of wilderness fires. Biomass burning aerosols (BBA) have dramatic…

Selective Heterogeneous Catalysis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
(Abstract from PNNL Lab Fellows LDRD proposal) [In this project we will create a "single site" catalysis capability at PNNL by robustly tethering catalytic centers to surfaces . The …

Ion Beam Analysis of Components for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
Montana State University
Principal Investigator
Richard Smith
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of the proposed research is to develop components for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that will withstand the corrosive operating environment of the cell (800 oC, atmosphere of hydrogen,…