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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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Flow and Transport of Edible Oil Emulsions for Enhanced Bioremediation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Truex
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Recent studies have shown that edible oil emulsions, including soybean oil, can be used to enhance the biodegradation of contaminant. Edible oil emulsions are relatively immobile and biodegrade…

Energetics of Non-Covalent Interactions in Biological Systems

Lead Institution
National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator
Amina Woods
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Complex molecular systems typically include aggregates held together by non-covalent bonds that collectively exceed the strength of covalent bonds. Additionally, the important chemical processes of…

Biofilm reactor development and characterization studies

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Haluk Beyenal
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal addresses the development of biofilm-based methods for the economical production of biochemicals and bio-fuels. Biofilms have the potential to solve many of the problems of conventional…

Infiltration, Redistribution, and Dissolution of Ethanol-Blended Gasoline: Intermediate-Scale Flow Cell Experimentation to Develop a Data Base for Numerical Model Testing and Verification.

Lead Institution
University of California, Davis
Principal Investigator
Timothy Ginn
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The practice of blending ethanol into gasoline, either as an additive or a fuel replacement, is rapidly increasing in the U.S. Given the potential large impact of potential blended gasoline spills on…

Analysis of trout sperm nuclear proteins

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Irvin Schultz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We are using a fish model, the rainbow trout, as a human surrogate to investigate the reproductive consequences of xenoestrogen exposure on male reproduction. In previous studies, we documented…

Impurity Segregation and Precipitation in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Scott Dunham
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this work is to apply advanced characterization and modeling techniques to gain a fundamental understanding of segregation and precipitation processes in semiconductors. These issues are…

Imaging of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode

Lead Institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Principal Investigator
Cristina Amon
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Microstructure imaging of a solid oxide fuel cell cathode is a necessary component of a computational modeling effort investigating the reactive transport of chromium species in the porous cathode of…

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…

Functional genomics of the root vascular system.

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Gary Stacey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nitrogen (N) management will be a critical feature for the production of bioenergy crops, which are likely to be grown on sub-optimal soils low in N content. One solution to these issues is to employ…

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…