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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. 

Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Study of secretory and membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Wenzhong Xiao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous Gram-negative bacterium isolated from soil, water, as well as host systems including plants, insects and vertebrates. It is one of the top three causes of…

Stable isotopes to study nutrient cycling in soils.

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cliff
Project type
Exploratory Research
Studying nutrient cycling in soils is important from economic and environmental perspectives. Our research has focused on the use of stable C and N isotopes to trace soil chemical processes and…

Sea Urchin Biomineralization: A Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy(SIMS) Analysis

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jong Seto
Project type
Exploratory Research
The purpose of this proposal is to obtain access to the facilities and equipment at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), Pacific Northwest Laboratory to further the understanding…

Kinetics in ices with complex compositions

Lead Institution
Concordia University
Principal Investigator
Patrick Ayotte
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our description of the role played by ice particles in altering the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere is currently undermined by our poor understanding of the interaction of…

The Surface Chemistry of Iron Metal in Environmental Remediation Applications

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Paul Tratnyek
Project type
Exploratory Research
This collaboration began during my sabbatical at EMSL during the period of 10/00-06/01. The overall goal was to determine how the surface morphology of iron metal affects its reactivity with aqueous…

Mossbauer and XPS Characterization of Fe-Based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts

Lead Institution
Research Triangle Institute
Principal Investigator
Velu Subramani
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal seeks to characterize fresh and used Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalysts prepared at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) using combined Mossbauer and X-ray…

Mossbauer and XPS Characterization of Fe-Based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts

Lead Institution
Research Triangle Institute
Principal Investigator
Velu Subramani
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal seeks to characterize fresh and used Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalysts prepared at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) using combined Mossbauer and X-ray…

Biqing Liang's Proposal

Lead Institution
Cornell University
Principal Investigator
Biqing Liang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Black carbon (BC) can play a key role in a wide range of biogeochemical processes. Enrichment of stable forms of BC was found leading to higher soil cation exchange capacity and nutrient retention in…

Propane Reforming Process Development

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Dagle
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposed project is to investigate the conversion of propane to a hydrogen-rich reformate stream for commercially-deployed portable fuel cell applications. Most of these applications occur in…

Blanca Lupiani's Proposal

Lead Institution
Texas A&M University
Principal Investigator
Blanca Lupiani
Project type
Exploratory Research
Avian influenza (AI) is a major respiratory disease of poultry that has the potential to cause catastrophic losses to the commercial poultry industry worldwide. In addition, AI viruses can be…

Semi-Rigid Block Copolymer

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this project, we explore new concepts in nanoscience and nanotechnology: self-organization of semi-rigid block copolymers. Our hypothesis is that properly designed polymers can self-organize into…

Proteomic Analysis of the Filamentous Fungus: Aspergillus fumigatus

Lead Institution
Tulane University
Principal Investigator
Joan Bennett
Project type
Exploratory Research
Fungi, with the possible exception of yeast, are less well studied than other microbes. One objective of this proposal is to generate a unique proteome database for a filamentous fungus directly…

Single Particle Studies of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry

Lead Institution
University of Iowa
Principal Investigator
Vicki Grassian
Project type
Exploratory Research
It is becoming increasingly clear that heterogeneous processes involving particulate matter in the atmosphere can greatly perturb the chemical composition of both the troposphere and the stratosphere…

Maria Salazar-villalpando's Proposal

Lead Institution
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Maria Salazar-villalpando
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Understanding the reaction mechanism of carbon formation is required in order to find solutions to avoid catalyst deactivation during the partial oxidation methane for syngas (H2 and CO) generation,…