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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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Surface Characterization of Calcium Phosphates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Heterogeneous nucleation is important in the development of biominerals such as bone, teeth and mollusk shells, but often, initial nucleation events are not understood at a mechanistic level(1). It…

Structure-function correlations of proteins in enamel formation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Heterogeneous nucleation is important in the development of biominerals such as bone, teeth and mollusk shells, but often, initial nucleation events are not understood at a mechanistic level. It is…

Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy on Radioactive Samples with Microcoils

Lead Institution
CEA Saclay
Principal Investigator
Dimitris Sakellariou
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The first phase of this project will be concerned with the development of a novel NMR detector based on the microcoil designs of the CEA-Saclay solid-state NMR group. The successful implementation…

Mixed Oxide Films for gas sensing and photo-catalytic applications

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Karur Padmanabhan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposed research is a joint effort between WSU and EMSL laboratory at PNNL to study mixing between specific oxide-oxide systems and understand the mixing mechanisms under 2 different…

Local structure in zirconia-based nuclear fuels and transmutation targets

Lead Institution
University of Cambridge
Principal Investigator
Ian Farnan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A programme of work is proposed to understand local ordering in inert matrix nuclear fuels based on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). This information is unobtainable using diffraction techniques…

Study of Pattern Formation on the Surface of NiO films

Lead Institution
University of Connecticut
Principal Investigator
Boris Sinkovic
Project type
Exploratory Research
Understanding of the surface structure and morphology of NiO surfaces is becoming increasingly important because of their use in spin-valve geometry of GMR sensors. Thick NiO films (500 Å) have been…

Structure Determination of Cyclic Siloxane

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Nelson
Project type
Exploratory Research
A presumed cyclic siloxane has been observed after the synthesis of specific aromatic co-polymers prepared by hydrosilylation techniques. Some synthetic procedures produce up to 50% of the cyclic…

Molecular Squares

Lead Institution
University of Minnesota
Principal Investigator
Larry Miller
Project type
Exploratory Research
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Nerve Agent Detection Using Enzyme-Coated Nanowires

Lead Institution
Pennsylvania State University
Principal Investigator
Seong Kim
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose a research program to prepare, characterize, and apply enzyme-coated nanowires to the detection of nerve agents. The substrate specificity of enzymatic reactions renders a great potential…

Soft-Landing of Complex Ions on Surfaces

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Robert Cooks
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Interaction of ions with surfaces is an area of active fundamental research in surface science relevant to a broad range of other scientific disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science such as…

Substrate-specific binding of Staphylococcus adhesins to solid surfaces

Lead Institution
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Steven Lower
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A nearly universal trait of bacteria is their ability to attach to solid surfaces. Attached cells often form biofilms that are implicated in a significant amount of human infections and have been…

Quorum Sensing in a Dissimilatory Metal Reducing Bacterium

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Hochella
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Quorum sensing is a versatile regulatory mechanism exhibited by several members of Bacteria. Even though this area of research is a rapidly growing field with clear environmental applications, it…