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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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Elucidating aromatic catabolic pathways in white-rot fungi

Lead Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Davinia Salvachua Rodriguez
Project type
Exploratory Research
Lignin is a heterogeneous aromatic polymer found in the cell walls of terrestrial plants and accounts for 30% of the organic carbon in the biosphere. White-rot fungi (WRF) are unquestionably the most…

Proteomics of Membrane Protein Complexes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Diana Bigelow
Project type
Exploratory Research
A comprehensive understanding of the effects of cellular stress on calcium signaling requires correlated measurements of intracellular calcium transients and global proteomic analysis of both calcium…

Computational study of protein-protein interaction dynamics

Lead Institution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Principal Investigator
Jin Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Protein-protein interactions are extremely important and complex in living cells. Studying the dynamical processes of protein-protein interactions is crucial for uncovering the fundamental…

Development of a Soldier-Portable Power System

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Daniel Palo
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ongoing work in support of a joint Army/Navy funded project to develop a hydrocarbon-fueled fuel cell power system. Work includes catalyst development, device fabrication and demonstration, and…

SEM Characterization of Proposed Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Larry Thomas
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Leo 982 field-emission SEM at EMSL will be used for microscopic and elemental characterization of sodium-aluminate alanate or similar material being studied for as a hydrogen storage medium. An…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

XPS analysis of fuel cell components

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Request use of Quantum 2000 (Mark Engelhard) to examine some fuel cell separator plates. I am interested in compositional changes as well as gradients in oxidation states of some transition metal…

Investigation of elemental contamination in solid oxide fuel cell materials.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vincent Sprenkle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Goal of this work is to investigate the role of contaminants in fuel cell materials through high resolution XPS. This fuel cell development program is part of the DOE-FE Solid State Energy…

Using the approaches of mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics and small interfering RNA (siRNA)-induced gene silencing to identify new insulin receptor signaling components in cultured adipocytes.

Lead Institution
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Principal Investigator
Zhen Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Insulin is a hormone that plays key roles in the regulation of fuel (glucose, fatty acid and protein) metabolisms and gene expression in the human body. Impaired insulin signaling and actions lead…

Analysis of catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
use EMSL capabilities in imaging and analysis to better understand catalyst structures

Growth of vanadium oxides on anatase TiO2 (001)

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Weiwei Gao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Anatase TiO2 (001) has been grown on LaAlO3 (001) by using oxygen plasma assisted MBE. About 30nm vanadium oxide was also deposited on anatase TiO2 (001) surface in O2 plasma environment. XPS/UPS…