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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.™ 

 

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Develop fundamental surface science characterization data for use in improving mixed alcohol synthesis catalysts via Computational Investigation of Ethanol Synthesis from Biomass-derived Syngas Using Rh-based Catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Shawn Kathmann
Project type
Exploratory Research
Novel catalyst design is essential and combined experimental and theoretical/computational catalysis can provide the essential mechanisms, influence of promoters, energetics, selectivity, and…

Cluster Model Studies of Condensed Phase Phenomena at Well-Defined Conditions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Xuebin Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This program is aimed at obtaining a microscopic understanding of solution chemistry and condensed phase phenomena using gas phase clusters as model systems.Our current focus is on the microsolvation…

Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Microbial Communities

Lead Institution
University of California, San Diego
Principal Investigator
Pieter Dorrestein
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Despite our significant technological advancements, the solutions to many of humanities lingering problems such as bioremediation of toxic heavy metal environmental contaminants, creation of…

Bioinspired Electrocatalysts for Energy Storage and Production Reactions.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electrocatalysts can convert electrical energy into chemical bonds in fuels, such as H2. In the reverse reaction, electrocatalysts can use the fuel to generate electrical energy on demand. This…

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Porous Media: A Real Time Microscopic Investigation

Lead Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal Investigator
Thanh Nguyen
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Horizontal gene transfer is widespread among bacteria and is an important component of microbial evolution and trait dispersal. Specifically, gene transfer can create new metabolic capabilities, e.g…

Excitation and Desorption of Nano-crystalline ZrO2

Lead Institution
University College London
Principal Investigator
Alexander Shlyuger
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project is focused on integrated theoretical and experimental studies of the interaction of light with nanoscale oxide materials of fundamental interest to the fields of photo-catalysis,…

Atomic and electronic structures of interfaces of complex oxides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Petr Sushko
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Oxide interfaces, superlattices and solid solutions provide opportunities for generating materials with novel properties, providing the atomic structures of the interface and near interface regions…

Soybean Proteomics

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Gary Stacey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The USA is the world's largest producer of soybean (Glycine max) according to the UN food and agriculture organization with a production of 83.9 million metric tons per year. Soybean is an…

Microstructures and Their Stability of Ion-implanted Energy and Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Weilin Jiang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Two parallel studies, respectively funded by Office of Basic Energy Sciences and Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, will be performed under this user proposal. The objectives of the…

Interfacial Phenomena in Nanostructured Materials under Irradiation

Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
William Weber
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nanostructured materials provide the opportunity for tailoring physical, electronic, optical, and biological properties for a variety of technological applications, including novel catalysis, sensors…

Rational Design of Ceramic Interfaces for Environmental Technologies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ram Devanathan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The aim of this research proposal is to advance the fundamental science needed to safely immobilize nuclear waste in durable ceramic matrices. Crystalline ceramics, including polyphase materials,…