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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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Computational Molecular Modeling of Microbial Iron Reduction

Lead Institution
University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Investigator
James Kubicki
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The remediation of contaminated soil and water systems is an $8 billion annual industry in the U.S. The development of accurate contaminant transportation models and effective bioremediation systems…

Overall warn syngas cleanup

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Gasification of biomass to syngas followed by catalytic synthesis of hydrocarbons or oxygenates provides a feasible strategy to meet the increasing demand for transportation fuels. This syngas has…

Fundamental Studies of Heterogeneous Photocatalysis on Model TiO2 Surfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Henderson
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of this project is to provide the field of heterogeneous photocatalysis with unique insights into the molecular-level properties of photocatalytic transformations through joint…

Controlled Doping of TiO2 for Visible Light Photoactivity

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Henderson
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The ambition of supplementing the nation's energy needs through solar photocatalytic water splitting is a far from being realized with current photocatalytic materials. TiO2-based materials …

Formation and Decomposition of Cerium-Based Nitrate Species

Lead Institution
University of Waterloo
Principal Investigator
William Epling
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose to study the effects of CO2 and H2O, two key diesel exhaust components, on the stability of nitrates bound to ceria on a Pt/Ce/Al2O3 catalyst. Commercial NOX storage/reduction (NSR)…

High-Throughput Structure Determination of Proteins and Protein Complexes

Lead Institution
Rutgers University
Principal Investigator
Gaetano Montelione
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESGC, www.nesg.org) is one of four large protein structure production centers supported by the NIH Protein Structure Initiative II (the PSI II). The…

Metal-blacks for plasmonic enhancement of solar-cell efficiency

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Metal-blacks are nano-structured porous metal films that have potential to enhance the efficiency of thin film solar cells via transverse scattering and concentration of the incident electromagnetic…

Study of Catalytic Properties of Atomic Gold in Polyaniline

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Miraslawa Josowicz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Study of Catalytic Properties of Atomic Gold in Polyaniline Project Lead: Mira Josowicz, Ph.D Project Lead Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Research Corporation Abstract…

Surface-Induced Dissociation of Large Molecules in Mass Spectrometry

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Julia Laskin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The general objective of our research is to achieve a fundamental understanding of the reaction kinetics and dynamics of activating and dissociating complex molecular ions, develop molecular level…

Assembly of the mRNA 3'-end processing machinery

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Gabriele Varani
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose to use NMR to study the structural basis for the assembly of the protein complex responsible for the formation of mature 3'-ends of mRNAs by cleavage and polyadenylation, and the…