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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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Low angle x-ray characterization of catalyst porosity

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Xiaohong Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to improve the scientific and technical understanding of plasma-assisted catalysis (PAC) aftertreatment for heavy-duty diesel engines to meet the proposed EPA…

Infrared Spectra of the Fundamental Bands of 34SO2

Lead Institution
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Principal Investigator
Walter Lafferty
Project type
Exploratory Research
Thanks to advances in technology the abundance of sulfur dioxide in urban air has been greatly reduced during the last several decades. The infrared spectrum of the bands of the most abundant …

Phagocytosis of carbon black aerosols with benzo-a-pyrene

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Terence Risby
Project type
Exploratory Research
Provide images of cells in culture, demonstrating uptake of carbon black by phagocytosis and if possible, fate of benzo-a-pyrene

Enhancing C Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Linking C and N cycling in soils (Part of Center for Research on Carbon Sequestration in the Terrestrial...., PNNL SCOPE # 30929).

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vanessa Bailey
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research was to determine how N can control the C cycle in soils. We incubated soils from 5 different ecotypes with varying amounts of N and a fixed amount of C. At…

Use of SEM/TEM for analysis of MR-1 biofilms grown for EMSL NMR micrscopy

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Brian Wood
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are proposing for some SEM/TEM time to image biofilms of S. putrefaciens MR-1 grown on a porous media as part of a separate EMSL user proposal (Use of NMR Microscopy to examine the dynamic sub…

Gold Hollow Nanostructures: Synthesis and Optical Properties

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Younan Xia
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanostructures of noble metals have received considerable attention in recent years due to their wide range of applications, including catalysis, optics, biological imaging, and surface-enhanced…