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.™

Open Ocean Ship-Board Study of Atmospheric Aerosols at the Equatorial Pacific: Characterizing Iron in Marine Aerosol

Lead Institution

Central Washington University

Principal Investigator

Anne Johansen

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Iron is a growth-limiting nutrient to phytoplankton in the open ocean, but its sources, chemistry and physical forms are largely unknown. Since phytoplankton control global climate by producing ~50%…

Crystal Perfection in Cadmium Zinc Telluride Radiation Detectors

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mary Bliss

Project type

Exploratory Research

This effort is to collect high resolution x-ray diffraction data to correlate with thermally stimulated current measurements. The samples are cadmium zinc telluride which have the potential to be…

Multilevel High Performance Models of Hydrobiogeochemistry for a NABIR Field Research Center

Lead Institution

Advanced Imaging Technologies

Principal Investigator

Anna Gutowska

Project type

Exploratory Research

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Photochemical studies on N-doped TiO2 single crystals - Fundamental Investigations of Water Splitting on Model TiO2 (Mike Henderson's BES Project - 48526)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Michael Henderson

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Development of new energy sources is a major need for the 21st century. Hydrogen has considerable potential as an alternative fuel. The discovery by Fujishima and coworkers in 1969 that water could…

Biomineralology and ultrastructure of neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria

Lead Institution

University of Delaware

Principal Investigator

Clara Chan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The purpose of the proposed research is to investigate the spatial relationships between iron-oxidizing microbial cells, extracellular polymers, and biogenic iron minerals. The main microbes of…

Study of Thermal decomposition of Polyester Fibers Treated with Phosphorus Flame Retardants

Lead Institution

University of California, Davis

Principal Investigator

Sabyasachi Gaan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Polyester fibers are one of the most widely used polymer in manufacturing of textiles and films. They are made flame retardant by application phosphorus based flame retardants. The mode of action of…

Enhanced ionic conductivity of samaria doped ceria thin films through tailoring the dopant concentration and microstructures

Lead Institution

Nanjing Normal University

Principal Investigator

Zhongqing Yu

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Development of electrolyte materials that possess high oxygen ion conductance at relatively low temperatures is essential to increase the efficiency and lifetime of electrochemical devices such as…

Biocompatible, Engineered Surfaces of Mixed Chemistry

Lead Institution

University of Utah

Principal Investigator

Vladimir Hlady

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

High resolution in situ spatial imaging is critical to visualizing how molecules adsorb and arrange themselves on surfaces. In order to image proteins or organic molecules on surfaces, scanning probe…

Development of an integrated atomic force / fluorescence microscope at EMSL

Lead Institution

The Ohio State University

Principal Investigator

Brian Lower

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to develop a new spectroscopic/microscopic capability at EMSL that combines atomic force microscopy (AFM) with fluorescence microscopy allowing for simultaneous force and fluorescence…

Specificity of Shewanella oneidensis outer membrane cytochromes
OmcA and OmcB towards iron- and manganese-oxide surfaces

Lead Institution

The Ohio State University

Principal Investigator

Brian Lower

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Metal-reducing bacteria have a unique ability to reduce solid-phase iron- and manganese- oxides in anaerobic environments. Unlike oxygen, Fe and Mn oxides, in a solid form, cannot diffuse across the…

The Formation and Structure of Tropical Organic/Water Aerosols

Lead Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder

Principal Investigator

Gayfree Ellison

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Atmospheric aerosols are widely recognized as key elements in many environmental issues ranging from global climate change and visibility to adverse effects on peoples health. Aerosols affect climate…

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

Large-Scale EMSL 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…

Design Criteria for Organic Charge Transporting Materials through Computational Modeling

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Linda Sapochak

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

ABSTRACT We propose to use EMSL computational facilities for developing predictive models which will guide the design of new organic charge transporting materials for thin film energy conversion…

Clusters of Damage in Irradiated DNA

Lead Institution

Colorado State University

Principal Investigator

John Zimbrick

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This EMSL project will increase our knowledge of the spatial characteristics of the free radical damage at the interface between the physical deposition of energy in DNA from gamma irradiation and…

The Impact of Carbonate on Surface Protonation, Electron Transfer and Crystallization Reactions in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Colloids

Lead Institution

University of Alabama

Principal Investigator

David Dixon

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

In this proposal we outline a plan to address three key issues of importance in the geochemical behavior of iron oxides and in the geochemical cycling of iron, specifically the influence of…

Column and flow cell experiments to study influence of wetting and mass transfer properties of organic chemical mixtures in vadose zone materials.

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Albert Valocchi

Project type

Exploratory Research

The project “Influence of wetting and mass transfer properties of organic chemical mixtures in vadose zone materials on groundwater contamination by nonaqeous pahse liquids” has recently been funded…

Investigations of a water doser for UHV ice studies

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Jason Donev

Project type

Exploratory Research

We want to look at ice in a UHV system. We have designed and built a water vapour transport system for ultra high vacuum. We need to test the ice that is deposited on a substrate with our…

Gold Implantation and subsequent formation of Gold Nano-clusters on Glass samples

Lead Institution

Alfred University

Principal Investigator

S Sundaram

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of this research is to determine if gold implantation on selected glass samples can change their optical properties. We will implant 2 MeV gold with different doses on glass samples…

Evaluation of SGI VRML Java bean and Cosmo development environment

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

David Thurman

Project type

Exploratory Research

In support of the Computational Science and Engineering Initiative, we are developing a prototype collaborative environment to support multi-step finite element analysis processes. This effort is…

Analysis of chemical biosignatures in rock

Lead Institution

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Pamela Conrad

Project type

Exploratory Research

We are developing strategy and methods for non-Earthcentric life detection. We define biosignatures as measurable chemistry and structures found over several scales of observation. We are presently…

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