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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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Imaging Respiratory Structure and Function In Laboratory Animals

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal for this NIH-funded project is to develop Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging for visualizing - 1) airway architecture, 2) lung mechanics, 3) gas flow, and 4) particulate deposition in live…

MRI of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Proposed work will be performed using normal rats and emphysematous counterparts. The specific aims are to - 1) quantify regional alveolar airway destruction in vivo using 19F gas MRI techniques…

COMBINED NMR/OPTICAL MICROSCOPY OF BIOFILM PHYSIOLOGY STUDIES

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Paul Majors
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Bacterial biofilms are found nearly everywhere in nature. Microbial metabolism and phenotype vary rapidly within a biofilm - this is at least partly responsible for their metabolic diversity and…

Bradley Tebo's Proposal

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Bradley Tebo
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Mn oxides are important mineral phases in a variety of environments and have potential application in solar energy capture and conversion and contaminant remediation technologies. In nature,…

Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies on Aerosol Evolution and Aging

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objectives of this project are to characterize the time evolution of aerosol size, density, composition, and mixing state in an aerosol chamber, and b) link experiments to the development and…

Ionic Transport of Hydrogen in Structured Soft Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Cowin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We will explore how the motion of hydrogen in the form of hydronium is controlled in a nanometer-sculpted multilayer composite water/hydrocarbon film, and how the motion of the ion alters the…

Imaging Of Water and Gas Distribution in PEM Fuel Cell Stacks and Cells

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The overall objective of this project is to develop three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for in-situ, real-time monitoring of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell…

Benchmark modeling of aerosol-cloud interactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Konstantin Ovchinnikov
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal requests computing resources from the Molecular Science Computation Facilities (MSCF) to support two projects of the PNNL Aerosol-Climate Initiative: "Benchmark Modeling of the…

Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Amonette
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
One of the approaches to minimizing the possible effects of climate change stemming from the recent increases in atmospheric CO2 levels involves storing C as biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Of…

Studies on 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP) and its derivatives

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Bylaska
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The widespread use of 1,2,3-trichloropropane (1,2,3-TCP) as solvents in paint and varnish removal, cleaning and degreasing, etc. has resulted in it becoming an emerging pollutant in the environment …

Pathogen strain detection based on changes in expressed proteins

Lead Institution
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Principal Investigator
Alvin Fox
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
To demonstrate improvements in real-time recognition of protein sequence changes in intact proteins: a) improved coverage (e.g. using electron capture dissociation (ECD) and/or electron transfer…

Computational Investigation of Metal Clusters on Doped Carbon Supports

Lead Institution
University of Alabama
Principal Investigator
Christoffer Turner
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Many electronic, chemical, and physical properties are known to depend upon system size, especially when the length scale approaches nanometer or sub-nanometer dimensions. With regards to catalysis…