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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. 

Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Advances in Understanding Electron Transfer Kinetics at Environmental Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Rosso
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This EMSL user proposal requests a continuation of EMSL access for a BER funded Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute (EMSI) project led by Dr. Rosso at PNNL. This project constitutes the PNNL…

Development of Time-Dependent Quantum Reaction Dynamics for Surface Reactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Bylaska
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose to develop multi-dimensional, state-of-the-art time-dependent quantum dynamics (TDQD) computational methods for catalytic surface reactions. Our aim is to obtain accurate initial-state…

Development of 1st principles dynamics with exact exchange and spin-orbit ZORA

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Bylaska
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
1st principles methods of dynamical simulation will be developed that can treat the complex chemistry of actinide elements. In developing new solvers, emphasis will be placed on methods that will…

On Improving Current Colloid Filtration Theory Models

Lead Institution
University of California, Davis
Principal Investigator
Timothy Ginn
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project uses trajectory simulations of colloidal particles in saturated porous media to obtain theoretical predictions of particle transport and deposition. The trajectory simulations provide a…

Laboratory Spectroscopy of CO2 for Earth Observations

Lead Institution
NASA Langley Research Center
Principal Investigator
Mary Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
For several instruments on the AURA and AQUA satellites, retrievals of atmospheric temperature profiles are based on observed radiances in infrared spectral regions where emission from atmospheric…

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Reaction Pathways for the Breakdown of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Molecules by Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles(including PNNL Scope # 42184/44076, Baer/Amonette/Tratnyek Nano-Fe BES/EMSP project)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Amonette
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles have been shown to have high reactivity towards a variety of chemical species, including chlorinated hydrocarbons and reducible oxyanions that frequently…

Cooperation on Nanocomposite Materials Using PNNL/EMSL User Facilities

Lead Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
Kuiyang Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanotechnology is leading to unprecedented understanding and control over the basic building blocks and properties of natural and man-made materials. We propose here to establish a cooperation with…

Protein complexes altered by oxidative stress and determined by FTICR-MS

Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
Heather Smallwood
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
To clarify the dynamics of radical mediated modifications, originating from reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by macrophages, we analyzed modifications to calmodulin (CaM) using immunoblotting…

Spectroscopi Infrared Properties of Hydrogen Cyanide

Lead Institution
College of William and Mary
Principal Investigator
Malathy Venkataraman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Using the EMSL high resolution Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, study the self, nitrogen and air broadeing of hydrogen cyanide. This will involve taking high resolution FTS spectra of HCN…

Evaluation of Municipal Incinerator Contribution to Spokane PM

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Dennis Finn
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed project is designed to evaluate the what, if any contributions are made to particulate matter loading in Spokane, Washington due to emissions from the municipal waster incinerator west…

Innovative Aerosol Collector (Alexander's SBIR, PNNL Scope #48595)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #18198. Develop an innovative aerosol collector for on-line analysis of individual particulate species using Proton Transfer…

Solid Phase Characterization/Speciation of U in 300 Area Sediments-Hanford

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
R. Serne
Project type
Exploratory Research
A new EMSL-refined, fluorescence line-narrowing technique performed in cryostat at liquid He-temperature will be used to determine U(VI) speciation in contaminated sediments. The technique provides…

Identification of covalent modification of SecA

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Linda Randall
Project type
Exploratory Research
SecA is the peripherally membrane-bound ATPase that is part of the translocon that mediates the export of proteins from the bacterial cytoplasm and outer membrane. In vivo 50% of the SecA is found…