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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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Non-stoichiometric precipitation of phase-pure hydrotalcite-like compounds

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ravi Kukkadapu
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hydrotalcite-like compounds (HTLCs), brucite-like materials, are used as gaseous adsorbents (e.g., CO2, NOx, SOx, etc.), anion exchangers, catalyst precursors, and catalyst supports. The general…

The Location of M(IV) Dopants in Hematite

Lead Institution
Lewis and Clark College
Principal Investigator
Barbara Balko
Project type
Exploratory Research
Redox reactions that occur on iron oxides are critical in biogeochemical cycles and are potentially important in controlling corrosion at iron surfaces and for degrading organic pollutants. The…

Characterization of Secondary Phases forming from Weathering of Waste Glasses

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Shas Mattigod
Project type
Exploratory Research
A performance assessment is underway to evaluate the suitability of the unsaturated sediments at the Hanford Site for long-term disposal of vitrified low-activity waste. Previous analyses show…

XPS of SAMs and Miomimetic Coatings

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Allison Campbell
Project type
Exploratory Research
conduct XPS of SAM surfaces, mineralized surfaces and ions adsorbed onto SAM surfaces.

Characterizing the Surface Structure of Nucleic Acid Microarrays

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Douglas Call
Project type
Exploratory Research
Designing nucleic acid based microarrays for detection of bacterial pathogens and bacteria, important for bioremediation. Procedure involves coating a glass slide with a self-assembled monolayer …

Characterization of Synthetic Mixed Valence U Compounds

Lead Institution
The George Washington University
Principal Investigator
Christopher Cahill
Project type
Exploratory Research
The efforts proposed herein will explore the synthetic reaction conditions necessary to produce and stabilize pentavalent uranium oxide species under hydrothermal conditions. U(V) is a fleeting…

Evaporative Co-deposition of Fluoride Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dean Matson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron-beam evaporation will be used to co-deposit calcium fluoride and europium fluoride in varying proportions for application in the formation of scintillator films. The project will involve…

Tapping mode AFM for real-time analysis of DNA hybridization on microarrays

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eileen Jutras
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recent advances in AFM make visualization of surface/DNA and DNA/protein interactions possible. Presently, we are designing nucleic acid based microarrays for the detection of bacterial pathogens…

Mapping of the contaminants in soil thin sections

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Oleg Povetko
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dynamic models of the transport and fate of radionuclides in ecosystems include many parameters that can not be easily estimated and often their estimates vary by many orders of magnitude. This…

Plasma Coating for Surface Passivation of Silica-coated Wafers

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Suresh Baskaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
he surface of silica coating prepared by Sol-gel process contains large amount of adsorbed water molecules. The presence of these polar molecules adversely affect the properties of the Silica…

Roughness Measurements of Microchannel Surfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Pfund
Project type
Exploratory Research
Surface roughness may influence the heat transfer coefficients in microchannel heat exchangers, particularly in cases of boiling. Roughness may also influence flow regimes in two-phase flow. We…

Microscopic analysis of carbon-based nanomaterials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are synthesizing nanostructured carbon-based materials from different carbohydrate precursors, such as glucose, fructose, and their derivatives. Functional carbon spheres with core-shell…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the 360 cm-1 Band of Acetonitrile

Lead Institution
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Brown
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will record and analyze the high resolution infrared spectrum of the 360 cm-1 band of acetonitrile. The purpose of this work is to determine the line shapes and positions of the rovibrational…