Skip to main content

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.™ 

 

  • Projects beginning at or after given date.
    Projects ending at or before given date.

Aerosol particle generation, collection, and analysis.

Lead Institution
Battelle Columbus
Principal Investigator
Vladimir Mikheev
Project type
Exploratory Research
Particle generation will be achieved via nucleation of supersaturated vapor of different substances (primary interest - alcohols and alkanes) using the laminar flow tube reactor (LFTR), and also by…

Structure and Catalytic Activity of Supported Early Transition Metal Oxide Clusters (Kay's BES/Chemical Physics-Catalysis WBS0502 of Peden's BES-Chemical Transformations at Complex Interfaces, PNNL Scope #47319)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
Current commercial heterogeneous catalysts are structurally and chemically complex and measurements on them can seldom be interpreted with atomic-level precision. This is especially so for supported…

Irradiation Effects in Pyrochlore Ceramics

Lead Institution
Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Org. (ANSTO)
Principal Investigator
Bruce Begg
Project type
Exploratory Research
Irradiate single and multiphase pyrochlore-based ceramics with energetic heavy ions (such as 2 to 8 MeV Au ions). Perform X-ray diffraction of the irradiated surfaces. The proposed work will use the…

Nanoparticle Fluorescence

Lead Institution
The University of Texas at Arlington
Principal Investigator
Wei Chen
Project type
Exploratory Research
Perform spectroscopic measurements on nanoparticle samples.

Nanoparticle Fluorescence

Lead Institution
The University of Texas at Arlington
Principal Investigator
Wei Chen
Project type
Exploratory Research
Perform spectroscopic measurements on nanoparticle samples.

Basic Energy Science

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jeongho Chang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Research at the field of fundamental energy science.

TEM image of mesoporous silica

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Byeongmoon Jeong
Project type
Exploratory Research
The powder of mesoporous silica may have hexagonal or cubic structure. We want to see the structure of silica prepared from our polymers.

Temperature Sensitive Surface from polyN-isopropylacrylamide

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liang Liang
Project type
Exploratory Research
PolyN-isopropylacrylamide was grafted on the surface of glass piece. The change of temperature could change the surface properties, such as from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. The modified surface can…

Sensitive Detection of Protein Phosphorylation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Barinaga
Project type
Exploratory Research
EHSD (FS) LDRDThe objective is to demonstrate the applicability of ICP/MS to the sensitive detection and quantitation of phosphorylation on peptides and proteins. The scope is to develop sufficient…

Thermochemistry of Hydrated Gas Phase Ions

Lead Institution
University of Utah
Principal Investigator
Bob Moision
Project type
Exploratory Research
The study of gas phase ions produced via electrospray ionization (ESI) is proposed. I am specifically interested in the enhancement of the ESI signal using an ion funnel to study low mass (m/z <…

photo-luminescence of nano-oxides

Lead Institution
Motorola
Principal Investigator
Yong Liang
Project type
Exploratory Research
to determine the photo-luminescence property and the lifetime of photo-excited electrons and holes. Need to conduct PL measurements (both regular and time-resolved) on SrTiO3 and Cu2O samples.

Amino acid sequence of reaction center variants

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
J. Beatty
Project type
Exploratory Research
We wish to determine the amino acid sequence of a region of the reaction center H protein from two putative mutants

Zinc oxide: a material for efficient light emission

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Matthew Mccluskey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for a range of applications. A wide-bandgap semiconductor, ZnO emits light in the blue-to-UV region…

Zinc oxide: a material for efficient light emission

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Matthew Mccluskey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for a range of applications. A wide-bandgap semiconductor, ZnO emits light in the blue-to-UV region…

Deep Desulphurization of Hot Coal Gas for Production of Liquid Fuels

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
The production of liquid fuel from coal via gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is one of the few feasible strategies for improving the nation's energy security. The energy efficiency of…

Deep Desulphurization of Hot Coal Gas for Production of Liquid Fuels

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The production of liquid fuel from coal via gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is one of the few feasible strategies for improving the nation's energy security. The energy efficiency of…