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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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XPS of SAMs and Miomimetic Coatings

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Allison Campbell
Project type
Exploratory Research
conduct XPS of SAM surfaces, mineralized surfaces and ions adsorbed onto SAM surfaces.

Characterizing the Surface Structure of Nucleic Acid Microarrays

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Douglas Call
Project type
Exploratory Research
Designing nucleic acid based microarrays for detection of bacterial pathogens and bacteria, important for bioremediation. Procedure involves coating a glass slide with a self-assembled monolayer …

Surface Analysis of Carbide Catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dean Matson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metalized carbon nanotubes are proposed as catalyst materials for hydrocarbon processing. Activity and selectivity of these materials is dependent on the distribution and nature of the metals on the…

Investigations of Organic Light Emitting Diode Materials

Lead Institution
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Principal Investigator
Allen Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
This goal of this investigation is to study the characteristics of proposed organic light emitting diode (OLED) materials. A number of metal quinolates with be studied to determine the effects of…

Characterization of tungsten carbide synthesized by controlled template method

Lead Institution
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Principal Investigator
Ja Hun Kwak
Project type
Exploratory Research
High purity tungsten carbide materials with high surface area and porosity can provide technically and economically attractive alternates for platinum in an electrocatalysis. We are developing novel…

Study of the ferromagnetic activation in ZnO diluted magnetic semiconductors

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Daniel Gamelin
Project type
Exploratory Research
We wish to study the in situ activation of ferromagnetic ordering in Mn2+:ZnO using vibrating sample magnetometry. We have previously shown that decomposition of amines activated ferromagnetism, but…

Scanning Electron Microscopy of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Lead Institution
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth
Principal Investigator
Hideaki Yukawa
Project type
Exploratory Research
The purpose of this brief proposal is to obtain high quality scanning electron microscopy images of Corynebacterium glutamicum. One of these images may be selected for inclusion of the cover of…

Optical Properties of Ag Nanoparticles Embedded in Polymer Matrices

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Tyler Pounds
Project type
Exploratory Research
Broadband plasmonic absorption has been exhibited in thin film Teflon AF matrices with embedded Ag nanoparticles. Plasmonic excitation occurs at a specific resonance wavelength for each embedded…

Controlling Field Emission from HV Structures

Lead Institution
College of William and Mary
Principal Investigator
Brian Holloway
Project type
Exploratory Research
High-purity, hydrogen-free silicon oxynitride films were successfully created using two techniques, plasma immersion ion implantation/deposition (PIII/D) and reactive sputtering. Our previous work…