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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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Exploring the Radiation Damage Resistance of Nanoscale Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Kurtz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to rigorously test the hypothesis that internal interfaces can be manipulated at the nanoscale to enhance recombination of radiation-produced defects to dramatically…

The role of U(V) during heterogeneous reduction of aqueous U(VI) to U(IV).

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eugene Ilton
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is being submitted in response to the Science theme call: Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science, understanding the chemistry of radionuclides in the subsurface. It directly relates to…

WSU Tri-Cities Electron Microscopy Course

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edgar Buck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron Microscopy (EM) has long been an important experimental tool in materials science, biological sciences, and geosciences. At PNNL, electron microscopes, both SEM and TEM, are used in nearly…

Europium Uptake in Various SAM Coated Mesoporous Silica

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Bays
Project type
Exploratory Research
A variety of self assembled monolayers (SAM) may be applied to mesoporous silica substrates. These SAMs may bind europium or other lanthanides from solution. It is important to quantify the…

TRLIF Studies of Eu(III) Sorption to Quartz and Uranophane

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Aurora Clark
Project type
Exploratory Research
To complement and provide much needed experimental benchmarks to ongoing computational studies at the EMSL supercomputing facility, we propose to use four weeks of time at the facilities at EMSL to…

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kyle Alvine
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to use the world-class ion scattering facilities at EMSL to advance the understanding of the effects of high-pressure hydrogen on nanolaminate low friction coatings and piezoelectric…

Electron Transfer Mechanisms in Biofilms

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Haluk Beyenal
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Although interactions of microorganisms with electrodes have been studied in the literature, the mechanisms of electron transfer are still poorly understood. The goal of this proposal is to…

Immunodominance hierarchies in influenza specific CD8+ T cell responses

Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
Heather Smallwood
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The phenomenon of immunodominance has been observed in B cell, CD4+ T cell and CD8+ T cell antigen-specific responses in virtually all types of infection and in tumor immunity model. It is still…

electron induced low-dose hypersensetivity

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Michael Joiner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Following very low acute radiation exposures, an increase in radiosensitivity has been detected at doses below 1 Gy in a number of cell lines in vitro. This phenomenon is termed ?low-dose hyper…

Electron Induced Genomic Instability

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
William Morgan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron induced genomic instability will be investigated using the PNNL microbeam and cho transfected gfp reporter constructs.

Regional Scale Atmospheric Modeling

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jerome Fast
Project type
Exploratory Research
To study metrological and atmospheric chemistry modeling for DOE-BER atmospheric science projects including DOE atmospheric chemistry program and vertical transport and mixing program. Test and…

Triplet Decay Pathways of the Electrically Conducting Polymer Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene]

Lead Institution
Central Washington University
Principal Investigator
David Laman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) is an electrically conductive polymer that is under active investigation for use as a photoinduced electron transfer donor in…

Development of Noble Metal Phosphide Hydrotreating Catalysts

Lead Institution
Western Washington University
Principal Investigator
Mark Bussell
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
High impurity levels in heavy and unconventional crude oils present major challenges to the petroleum industry at a time that environmental regulations in the United States, Japan and in many…