Projects

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.™

Design of plasmonic probe tips to control light on the nanoscale for imaging and spectroscopy with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution

Lead Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder

Principal Investigator

Bernd Raschke

Project type

Exploratory Research

The optical probing of matter with simultaneous nanometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution has remained a great challenge. Here, using focused ion beam milling we will tune the optical…

Elucidation of Structure-Activity Relationship in Nanoparticle Inhalation Toxicology

Lead Institution

Battelle Columbus

Principal Investigator

Amit Gupta

Project type

Exploratory Research

Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) are of great commercial interest. However, with increasing applications and production capacities of MWCNT, they are coming under intense scrutiny by the…

VEGETATION INFLUENCES ON LONG-TERM CARBON STABILIZATION IN SOILS, VIA PLANT ALLOCATION, TISSUE CHEMISTRY,
AND SOIL DEPTH EFFECTS

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Margaret Torn

Project type

Exploratory Research

Soil organic matter is a major reservoir of carbon within the biosphere and has a fundamental impact on soil properties, and therefore on ecosystem functioning and sustainability. We are proposing to…

Impacts of Pore Scale Heterogeneity on Nanoparticle Motility and Transport: A Micromodel Study

Lead Institution

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Principal Investigator

Changyong Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The increasing production, application and disposal of functionalized nanomaterials will inevitably lead to wide environmental impacts. Motility and transport of nanoparticles in the subsurface…

Pathogen Control for a Sustainable Reuse of Wastewater: Role of Surface Interactions on Transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in Subsurface

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Thanh Nguyen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Transport of pathogens such as Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in subsurface environment is of great concern for water resources protection or drinking water treatment. Groundwater source for drinking…

Monitoring the Global Conformation of SRP During Co-translational Protein Targeting

Lead Institution

California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Vinh Lam

Project type

Exploratory Research

The signal recognition particle (SRP) is the major cellular machinery that mediates co-translational targeting of membrane and secretory proteins to the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane…

Structure-Function Relationships in Nanoscale Electrocatalysis

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Bo Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The goal of this proposal is to investigate the relationship between electrocatalytic activity and geometric characteristics at single metal nanowires. A key aspect of the proposed research is that…

Nanoparticle Characterization for Systems Analysis of Biocompatibility

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Barbara Tarasevich

Project type

Exploratory Research

The goal of this research is to develop an understanding of how the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials influence their ability to interact with cells and stimulate biological responses. The…

Computational Study of Protein-Protein Interaction Dynamics at Single Molecule Level

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Principal Investigator

Jin Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The dynamic process of binding occurs in a wide dynamic range, including millisecond to second timescale range. To be able to connect and compare computational simulation results with the results…

COMBINED EPR, NMR, MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND COMPUTATIONAL DETERMINATION OF RARE EARTH HYPERFINE EFFECTS IN CERAMICS.

Lead Institution

University of Cambridge

Principal Investigator

Ian Farnan

Project type

Exploratory Research

The first successful high-resolution solid-state NMR experiments on plutonium containing ceramics were carried out at EMSL. As these breakthrough experiments are exploited in the radiological NMR…

Xenoestrogen effect on trout histones

Lead Institution

University of Idaho

Principal Investigator

James Nagler

Project type

Exploratory 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. Our previous studies have documented…

Interaction of nickel-based SOFC anode with trace species in coal derived synthesis gas

Lead Institution

National Energy Technology Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirk Gerdes

Project type

Exploratory Research

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) utilizing nickel-based anodes have been widely studied at scales spanning micro (interfaces) to macro (system integration). In particular, SOFC have been investigated in…

Investigation into the Mechanism of Soot Formation from Biomass Combustion

Lead Institution

University of Leeds

Principal Investigator

Maria Romero

Project type

Exploratory Research

Biomass combustion is currently a significant energy source in developing countries and is likely to become more significant to developed countries due to the search for alternatives to fossil fuel…

Regulatory dynamics of microbial communities

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

H Wiley

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This is a proposal to conduct work in EMSL in support of the Foundational Scientific Focus Area (FSFA) research program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This large-scale research program…

Iron mineral and chromium reduction by Cellulomonas spp.

Lead Institution

Montana State University

Principal Investigator

Robin Gerlach

Project type

Exploratory Research

The Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) at Montana State University (MSU) in collaboration with the Center for Multiphase Environmental Research (CMER) at Washington State University (WSU) and the…

Complex Oxide Heteroepitaxial Growth of Novel Electronic and Magnetic Heterostructures

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Scott Chambers

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Complex oxide heteroepitaxial growth of pure and magnetically doped perovskite films will be studied with the dual goals of: (i) enhancing understanding of the details of the growth process, and, (ii…

Developing an Initial Framework for a Regional Earth System Model

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Lai-Yung Ruby Leung

Project type

Exploratory Research

Predicting climate change at the regional scale is critically important for assessing climate change impacts and developing strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Regional climate models (RCMs)…

The Reaction Specificity of Nanoparticles in Solution: Interactions between Iron Nanoparticles, their Coatings, and the Environment

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Donald Baer

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The objective of our research is to obtain fundamental information about the physical and chemical transformations that occur on and within mineral oxide nanoparticulates due to electron transfer…

Evaluating the role of DsrC as a key protein in dissimilatory sulfur metabolism

Lead Institution

Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica

Principal Investigator

Ines Pereira

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The dissimilatory reduction of sulfur compounds is one of the earliest energy metabolisms detected on Earth, at ~3.5 billion years ago. Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) are prominent among sulfur…

Mossbauer Analysis of Microbial Redox Transformations of Fe-bearing Phyllosilicate and Oxide Minerals

Lead Institution

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Principal Investigator

Eric Roden

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Microbial Fe redox transformations have a major impact on the aqueous and solid-phase geochemistry of subsurface environments, as well as on the behavior of various organic and inorganic contaminants…

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