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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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Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials and Cluster-Assembled Materials

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #21790. This program is focused on exploratory syntheses of anionic metal clusters based on our gas-phase studies. A long…

Cluster Model Studies of Condensed Phase Phenomena

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #8592. This program is aimed at obtaining a microscopic understanding of solution chemistry and solvation of negatively charged…

Ultrafast Laser Interactions with Wide Bandgap Materials

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
J. Dickinson
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Laser interactions with nominally transparent (wide bandgap) materials are playing increasingly important roles in several technologies and applications, including chemical analysis, semiconductor…

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…

TEM use for analysis of base glasses and doped glasses

Lead Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Lara Rogers
Project type
Exploratory Research
Prepare samples of glass for TEM analysis. Use TEM to look for microdroplet phase separation or micro crystal structure in boro-sodium glass and boro-sodium glass doped with CuO. Take pictures with…

Texture, morphology, and stress in PZT thin films

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Bahr
Project type
Exploratory Research
WSU is developing the P3 microengine, a MEMS device that utilizes a composite flexing membrane to generate power by converting mechanical energy to electrical energy. The membrane is made by lead-…

Scanning Mass Spectroscopy of Aerosols

Lead Institution
Monmouth College
Principal Investigator
George Nieman
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project involves attaching a quadrapole mass spectrometer to an existing Enviromental Scanning Electron Microscope. This will allow for the identification of molecular (organic) species attached…

Protein Signatures of Leukemic Cells

Lead Institution
University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator
Katherine Williams
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to determine whether differences in protein expression in acute promyelocytic leukemia with a t(15;17) segregate with treatment outcome. The strategy to identify…

Uranium(VI) sorption onto hematite surfaces

Lead Institution
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Nuclear Waste Management
Principal Investigator
Dirk Bosbach
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sorption processes on mineral surfaces are relevant for assessing the performance of deep geological nuclear waste deposit sites. Knowledge of basic sorption interactions on a molecular scale is…