Projects

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.™

Carbon Tetrachloride Degradation Reaction Mechanisms (Amonette/Bylaska EMSP-CCl4, PNNL Scope #44012)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James Amonette

Project type

Exploratory Research

Characterize the mechanisms and kinetics of competing degradation reactions of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) through laboratory experiments in simple model systems closely coordinated with theoretical…

Surface Structure and Chemistry of Carbonate Minerals (PNNL scope #19165)

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Donald Baer

Project type

Exploratory Research

To gain a fundamental molecular level understanding of carbonate mineral surfaces and their sorption behavior under complex geochemical conditions by executing an integrated experimental and…

Cellular Response to Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Global Quantitative Proteome AMT Tag Measurements of Cellular Protein Expression

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Michael Katze

Project type

Exploratory Research

Approximately 170 million individuals worldwide are infected with HCV and in the United States, there are approximately 4 million infected individuals and over 10,000 HCV associated deaths annually. …

NMR Chemical Shift Calculations for Novel Bioactive Metabolites from an Acid Mine Waste Organism

Lead Institution

Montana Technological University

Principal Investigator

David Hobbs

Project type

Exploratory Research

Metal contaminated mine-waste waters are a western regional problem in the US of major proportions. Remediation cost estimates range from $4-$50 billion dollars, and often remediation/recovery…

First Principles Calculations of Nanostructured Y2O3 Interface with Ferritic Matrix

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Blas Uberuaga

Project type

Exploratory Research

To generate exceedingly high energy throughput to meet our energy needs almost all the advanced nuclear reactor concepts require operations under severe conditions of temperatures and radiation. The…

First-principle Studies for Actinide Materials

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Enrique Batista

Project type

Exploratory Research

Actinide oxides, nitrides, and carbides are of both fundamental and applied interest. However, their physical and chemical complexity make them challenging systems to characterize both experimentally…

Multi-scale modeling of catalytic interfaces based on 2-D sub-nano surface-deposited clusters

Lead Institution

University of California, Los Angeles

Principal Investigator

Anastassia Alexandrova

Project type

Exploratory Research

The ultimate objective of the proposed research is fundamental understanding and design of novel catalytic interfaces based on ultra-small, sub-nano surface-deposited clusters (i-SNSDC), with a…

High Resolution Electron Microscopy Study of Complex Nanostructured Materials and Their Structural Transformations

Lead Institution

Yale University

Principal Investigator

Jun Liu

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of this proposal is to use EMSL's advanced electron microscopy facility to characterize the compositions and properties of the nanostructured catalysts and nanostructured materials…

Liquid Sampling-Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge (LS-APGD) Ionization Source for Elemental Analysis

Lead Institution

Clemson University

Principal Investigator

Richard Marcus

Project type

Exploratory Research

The development of a novel low power, low flow 'elemental' ionization source for applications in the areas of metallomics and transportable mass spectrometry is proposed. The liquid…

Characterization of Model Superacid Catalysts

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Gregory Herman

Project type

Exploratory Research

The isomerization of n-alkanes is of much interest for the formation of branched hydrocarbons for improved quality fuels. Sulfated-zirconia is a promising next generation catalyst for these and…

Developing More Efficient Fuel Cells Using Computational Methods

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Neil Henson

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This project proposes to use a number of state-of-the-art, highly parallelised computational chemistry tools in order to rationalise the fundamental chemical processes occurring at the atomic level…

Pressure Sensor

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Allan Evans

Project type

Exploratory Research

We propose the development and fundamental demonstration of a MEMS pressure sensor technology that will operate in extreme pressures and temperatures. The initial performance target will be less…

Structure-reactivity relations for catalytic surfaces modified with self-assembled monolayers

Lead Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder

Principal Investigator

James Medlin

Project type

Exploratory Research

This Rapid Access proposal is aimed at conducting proof-of-concept studies to explore catalytic chemistry at model interfaces that are of great interest for improving understanding and developing new…

Cooperative Interactions of Marine Macromolecules at the Air-Water Interface

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Philip Rasch

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles formed from bubbles bursting at the ocean surface contain a large fraction of organic matter. The presence of this organic matter is driven by the adsorption of…

Comprehensive chemical composition of Arctic aerosols and formation mechanisms of organosulfates investigated by highly advanced techniques

Lead Institution

Aarhus University

Principal Investigator

Marianne Glasius

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The fundamental insufficiency of scientific knowledge on the sources, formation and properties of aerosols, especially the organic aerosol fraction, hampers our knowledge of the climate system of the…

Understanding Water Splitting on Model Mixed Metal Oxide Photocatalysts

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Michael Henderson

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

There is a need for new fundamental insights into photocatalytic water splitting particularly how to design catalyst systems that extend the catalytic and photocatalytic functionalities of simple…

Multi-scale investigation of the nitrogen fixation mechanism of Mo-dependent nitrogenase

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Simone Raugei

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to use EMSL NMR and supercomputing resources to gain a molecular level understanding of how substrate binding, electron, and proton delivery is controlled by the nitrogenase metalloenzyme…

Insights into peatland carbon cycling derived from integration of Omics with biogeochemical profiling

Lead Institution

Michigan Technological University

Principal Investigator

Evan Kane

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Peatlands are one of the most important ecosystems providing feedbacks to the climate system because they store a large component (>30%) of the world's soil C stocks. Peatlands also are found…

Characterization of the Local Structure and Chemistry of 99Tc in Simulated Nuclear Waste Glasses and its Effect on Chemical Leaching

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

John McCloy

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A priority goal of the United States Department of Energy is to dispose of nuclear wastes accumulated in underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, WA. Incorporation and…

Designing Fuel Cell Catalysts at the Molecular Scale with Ion Soft Landing and Spray Ionization

Lead Institution

Purdue University

Principal Investigator

Robert Cooks

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Structure-reactivity relationships that are derived from molecular-level investigation of the properties of well-defined supported nanoparticles (NPs) are critical to the rational development of…

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