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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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Electronic Properties of the Metal and Thin Film Oxide Insulator Junction

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kenneth Beck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Modern solid state devices are based on conjoining prefentially doped seimconductor materials. One species may be doped as an electron donor ("N"), while a complementary species in an…

Innovative Aerosol Collector (Alexander's SBIR, PNNL Scope #48595)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
Develop an innovative aerosol collector for on-line analysis of individual particulate species using Proton Transfer Reaction Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ITMS).

Modeling of Heterogenous Atmospheric Processes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nels Laulainen
Project type
Exploratory Research
Development of a fundamental understanding of nucleation in multicomponent systems.

Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Graphite

Lead Institution
UCAR Carbon Company Inc.
Principal Investigator
Samina Azad
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Majority of the energy requirement of many industrial processes is met through utilization of reactions of carbon and carbonaceous materials with oxygen, steam, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The…

High-resolution interfacial studies of nano-scale oxide films

Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Shriram Ramanathan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Thin film transition metal-oxides are of great interest to a number of areas ranging from nano-electronic devices to alternate energy technologies. We propose to use the unique ion beam facilities at…

Infrared Spectra of HCN at Low Temperatures

Lead Institution
NASA Langley Research Center
Principal Investigator
Mary Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
The scientific return from Cassini and other missions to the outer planets will be enhanced by improving fundamental knowledge of the spectroscopic parameters in the 14-μm bands of hydrogen…

Characterization of Novel DNA/Semiconductor Nanoconjugates

Lead Institution
California State University, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
Feimeng Zhou
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The proposed study is to develop a controllable methodology by which the inorganic compounds can be evenly grown along the DNA template at molecular level and investigate the impact of various…

Mesh Generation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Harold Trease
Project type
Exploratory Research