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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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Fundamental Studies of Implantation Defects in 4H-SiC

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Brian Milbrath
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the accumulation and recovery of ion-implantation defects on both the Si and C sublattices in 4H-SiC. The 4H-SiC single-crystal samples will be…

Effects of Polymer Processing Techniques on Free Radical Concentration

Lead Institution
United Technologies Research Center
Principal Investigator
Wayde Schmidt
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposed project will support a currently funded DOE contract to UTRC on Polymer Dispersed Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage. The objective for the proposed collaborative study will be to…

Inelastic Electron Scattering Cross Section Measurements in Liquid Water

Lead Institution
Wadsworth Center
Principal Investigator
Craig Brown
Project type
Exploratory Research
An understanding of electron-initiated processes in aqueous systems is significant not only in fundamental research but also in such diverse fields as waste remediation and environmental cleanup,…

Analysis of Composite Sheet Forming Using PAM-Stamp.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nicholas Klymyshyn
Project type
Exploratory Research
A composite sheet (woven carbon fiber and nylon) forming process will be modelled in PAM-Stamp. This project requires an account on Jupiter.

Thermal/Fluids Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Operation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kurtis Recknagle
Project type
Exploratory Research
PNNL is dedicated to design and develop a 5 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) stack which has the capability to startup rapidly and operate under dynamic loading conditions for extended periods of time…

An Investigation of Oriented Matroids Associated with a Petri Net

Lead Institution
Victoria University of Wellington
Principal Investigator
Colin Bailey
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the Silicon Cell project (LDRD:Enabling the Silicon Cell: Development of Models of Cell-Signaling Pathways and Networks.) we have associated a Petri net with a reaction sequence. Petri…

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to simultaneously characterize the time evolution of hydrocarbon precursor gases as well as the chemical and physical properties of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) using an existing 8-m3…

High Resolution Infrared and Coherent Raman Studies of Propellane

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Joseph Nibler
Project type
Exploratory Research
Propellane is one of the most exotic of all cyclic hydrocarbon, representing a case of extreme ring strain and the only known molecule with the bridgehead carbon atoms forming four bonds in the same…

ESEM analysis of a bacterial biofilm on plastic

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steve Bradley
Project type
Exploratory Research
The authors would like to use an ESEM instrument to search for evidence of biofilm formation on the walls of a plastic column used in microbial transport studies. We hope to analyze a section of the…

Temperature Programmed Reaction of Nitrogen Dioxide Catylysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Craig Habeger
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to improve the scientific and technical understanding of plasma-assisted catalysis (PAC) aftertreatment for heavy-duty diesel engines to meet the proposed EPA…