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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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Modeling Conduction in Organic-Fullerene and Titania-Fullerene Solar Cells

Lead Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
Daniel Neuhauser
Project type
Exploratory Research
Organic solar cells have recently attracted much research attention, though little is known about the specific electron transfer mechanism in these cells, and due to the size of the systems,…

Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases --Year V

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to apply genome-scale approaches in solving…

Mineralogic Residence and Desorption Rates of Sorbed 90Sr in Contaminated Subsurface Sediments: Implications to Future Behavior and In-Ground Stability
(Zachara EMSP-Sr, PNNL Scope #40896)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Zachara
Project type
Exploratory Research
Define the mineralogic residence and intraparticle distribution of 137Cs in sediments contaminated with two different high-level waste (HLW) types, and to define the relationships of residence and…

Ongoing Study of Catalytic Properties of Atomic Metals in Polyaniline

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Miraslawa Josowicz
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ongoing Study of Catalytic Properties of Atomic Metals in Polyaniline Project Lead: Mira Josowicz, Ph.D Project Lead Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Research Corporation…

Fungal and bacterial weathering of apatite and wollastonite in forest soils

Lead Institution
Eastern Washington University
Principal Investigator
Carmen Nezat
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mineral weathering is an important process in biogeochemical cycling because it releases nutrients from less labile pools (e.g., rocks) to the food chain, affects the porosity of earth materials, and…

Remediation & Closure Science Project/ Subsurface Science Tasks (Zachara/Freshly, EM-closure, PNNL Scope #47040). [was aka S & T Road Mapping for Needs From All Sources (PNNL Scope #30998)].

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Zachara
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hanford Remediation and Closure Science Project The Hanford Site Groundwater Protection Program, formerly the Groundwater/ Vadose Zone Integration Project, was established in 1997 to develop the…

Exploring the Radiation Damage Resistance of Nanoscale Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Kurtz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to rigorously test the hypothesis that internal interfaces can be manipulated at the nanoscale to enhance recombination of radiation-produced defects to dramatically…

Hybrid Electrode Materials for High Energy Supercapacitors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Satish Nune
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanostructured carbon materials have gained significant attention in recent years due to their potential applications including energy storage. Although various types of carbon based materials have…