Projects

Flow and Transport of Edible Oil Emulsions for Enhanced Bioremediation

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Michael Truex

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Recent studies have shown that edible oil emulsions, including soybean oil, can be used to enhance the biodegradation of contaminant. Edible oil emulsions are relatively immobile and biodegrade…

Energetics of Non-Covalent Interactions in Biological Systems

Lead Institution

National Institutes of Health

Principal Investigator

Amina Woods

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Complex molecular systems typically include aggregates held together by non-covalent bonds that collectively exceed the strength of covalent bonds. Additionally, the important chemical processes of…

Biofilm reactor development and characterization studies

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Haluk Beyenal

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This proposal addresses the development of biofilm-based methods for the economical production of biochemicals and bio-fuels. Biofilms have the potential to solve many of the problems of conventional…

Development of Tunable Highly Efficient THz Sources using Focused Ion Beam (FIB)-Based Lithography

Lead Institution

Alfred University

Principal Investigator

S Sundaram

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The present proposal addresses this specific problem of availability of narrow line width cw source by designing, creating, and testing novel structures on semiconductor material surfaces for…

Infiltration, Redistribution, and Dissolution of Ethanol-Blended Gasoline: Intermediate-Scale Flow Cell Experimentation to Develop a Data Base for Numerical Model Testing and Verification.

Lead Institution

University of California, Davis

Principal Investigator

Timothy Ginn

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The practice of blending ethanol into gasoline, either as an additive or a fuel replacement, is rapidly increasing in the U.S. Given the potential large impact of potential blended gasoline spills on…

Development of the Novel Hybrid Nanowire-based Solar Cell on a Flexible Substrate

Lead Institution

University of Idaho

Principal Investigator

Daniel Choi

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Since the worlds oil and other fuel resources are finite and depleting, great interests have been focused towards finding alternative energy sources. Among the contenders competing to replace fossil…

Kinetic study of heterogeneous reaction of palladium nanoparticles with O2 and OH

Lead Institution

Stanford University

Principal Investigator

Hai Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The proposed research will examine the reaction kinetics and mechanism of palladium nanoparticle oxidation in molecular oxygen and by the hydroxyl radical. We will use the substrate deposited…

Physicochemical determinants of distribution and fate of nanoparticles following in vivo exposure

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Justin Teeguarden

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The risks associated with the use of nanomaterials have been recently under investigation (1) as increasingly more nanosized products are developed and commercialized. The advent of nanotoxicology as…

Experimental investigation and theoretical validation of growth, morphology, and chemistry of cuprous oxide nanoclusters on STO (100) substrate

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Charles Henager

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Growth of electronic materials as single crystals for a variety of uses can be limited by the lack of fundamental understanding of the nucleation, growth, and coalescence regime at the initial stages…

Studies of Nanomaterials for Removal of Perchlorate in Water

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jun Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

this proposal is to study the conducting polymer/carbon nanotube nanocomposite for removal of perchlorate in water.

Understanding the influence of radiation exposure on ceria nanoparticle surface chemistry

Lead Institution

University of Central Florida

Principal Investigator

Sudipta Seal

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Primary focus of this work is to study the effect of radiation exposure on the surface chemistry of cerium oxide. High quality, single and polycrystalline thin films of ceria will be synthesized…

Characterization of Unknown Biogenic Organic Compounds During Dissimilatory Metal Reduction

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

David Kennedy

Project type

Exploratory Research

Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, can generate energy by transferring electrons to insoluble Fe(III) oxides. They localize multi-heme cytochromes to…

Analysis of trout sperm nuclear proteins

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Irvin Schultz

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We are using a fish model, the rainbow trout, as a human surrogate to investigate the reproductive consequences of xenoestrogen exposure on male reproduction. In previous studies, we documented…

Impurity Segregation and Precipitation in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Scott Dunham

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The goal of this work is to apply advanced characterization and modeling techniques to gain a fundamental understanding of segregation and precipitation processes in semiconductors. These issues are…

Benchmark non-Born--Oppenheimer calculations on small molecules

Lead Institution

University of Arizona

Principal Investigator

Ludwik Adamowicz

Project type

Exploratory Research

The proposed research addresses the development and tests theoretical methods that allow very accurate variational calculations of atomic and molecular systems without using the Born--Oppenheimer…

TEM study of interfacial layers in Nb-clad stainless steel

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jung-pyung Choi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Nb-clad 304L stainless steel manufactured by cold rolling is currently under consideration for use as a bipolar plate material in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell stacks. To make the…

High Resolution TEM of Doped Ceria System

Lead Institution

University of Florida

Principal Investigator

Juan Nino

Project type

Exploratory Research

Higher ionic conductive solid oxide electrolyte is critical for the realization of portable device based on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Doped ceria materials show promise owing to their higher…

Oxygen isotope fractionation in phosphate during iron oxide-phosphate interaction

Lead Institution

University of Delaware

Principal Investigator

Deb Jaisi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Measurements of 18O/16O ratio of organic and inorganic PO4 in laboratory experiments have found that microbial metabolism of PO4 is accompanied by specific oxygen isotope fractionations. More…

Hydrolytic Stability and Susceptibility of Transition Metal Diolate Complexes and Applications to Green Oxidation

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Kevin Gable

Project type

Exploratory Research

A series of LReO3 complexes will be prepared and reductively cyclized with vicinal diola. The hydrolysis of these compounds will be examined by NMR and UV spectroscopies under a variety of pH…

Characterization of Aerosol Organics by LC-MSn

Lead Institution

Desert Research Institute

Principal Investigator

Barbara Zielinska

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

In summer, 2009, a comprehensive field study is planned to characterize the effect of organics on the water activity of atmospheric particles under sub- and supersaturated conditions at the Desert…