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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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Biomarkers of malaria infection

Lead Institution
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Michal Fried
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This application is for the continuation and expansion of proposal 8211 "Membrane proteins of placental parasites". P. falciparum causes severe syndromes by adhering to endothelium and…

Image polystyrene microparticles

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
obtain SEM images of 1-10 micron polystyrene microspheres to examine surface features

CONTROLLED DEFECT GENERATION IN POROUS SILICON

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanoporous silicon surface has been subject to considerable study because of its photoemmsion properties and possible opto-chemical, gas and bio sensing applications. The ability to get controlled…

ATM, ISO and other standard and metrology measurements for surface analysis

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
This activity involves extended that state of the art in surface analysis by expanding the understanding of equipment capability, testing new approaches to instrument calibration and operation, and…

Ion Channeling Studies of Epitaxial Oxide Films and Gas-Solid interfaces.

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Karur Padmanabhan
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposal addresses two important research areas using the on RBS, ion channeling and nuclear reaction analysis. EMSL ion accelerator facility will be used for both projects. The first involves…

Ion Channeling Studies of Epitaxial Oxide Films and Gas-Solid interfaces.

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Karur Padmanabhan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposal addresses two important research areas using the on RBS, ion channeling and nuclear reaction analysis. EMSL ion accelerator facility will be used for both projects. The first involves…

Conductivity of bacterial nanowires

Lead Institution
J. Craig Venter Institute
Principal Investigator
Yuri Gorby
Project type
Exploratory Research
Scanning tunneling microscopy will be used to image and characterize bacterial appendages produced by iron reducing bacteria that are believed to be involved with the extracellular reduction of iron…

A combined approach for protein structure prediction

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Silvia Crivelli
Project type
Exploratory Research
The protein structure prediction is one of the grand challenges in modern science. The problem consists of determining the tertiary structure of a protein given its primary sequence of amino acids…

A combined approach for protein structure prediction and protein-protein docking

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Silvia Crivelli
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mapping the network of protein interactions in the cells of living organisms is an intriguing puzzle that we are just beginning to understand with the knowledge of completed genomes. Predicting the…

Soft Lithography for Optics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Dunham
Project type
Exploratory Research
The method of soft lithography will be applied to fabrication of absorptive optical filters.

Nanomaterial toxicology

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
The immense excitement created by the developing ability to manipulate many physical and chemical properties of nanoscale objects also raises question of nanomaterial toxicity. In contrast to well…

Phosphorous poisoning of automotive catalysts

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bruce Bunting
Project type
Exploratory Research
Phosphorous is contained in lube oil in the form of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate. Although progress has been made in reducing the total phosphorous in lube oil, it appears that it can not be…