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Projects

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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Profilometry Studies of Printed Electrode Films for Fuel Cell Applications

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Windisch
Project type
Exploratory Research
This study will use profilometry to determine thicknesses of films being deposited on various substrates to be used as electrodes for fuel cell applications. The films are primarily carbon based and…

Proteomics of in stiu Biostimulated Sediments

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Philip Long
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proteomics facility will be used for the detection of peptides/proteins belonging to metal-reducing bacteria in sediment samples from naturally-occurring microbial communities. The bacteria…

Special Projects in Electron Microscopy

Lead Institution
David Heil Associates Corporation
Principal Investigator
James Young
Project type
Exploratory Research
WSU-TriCities course offering for practical training in one or more areas of electron microscopy: TEM, SEM, ultramicrotomy, specimen processing, darkroom procedures and light microscopy. Involves…

Compare thermal signature of air-cooled RX2600 node with SprayCool FX2600 node

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Regimbal
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the DOE NNSA Energy Smart Data Center (ESDC) project, a full rack of HP RX2600 nodes has been retrofitted to replace the Itanium Heat Sync with Evaporative Spray Cooling caps to evaluate…

FTIR Characterization of Fe-films formed on ephemeral pool

Lead Institution
University of Greifswald
Principal Investigator
Georg Grathoff
Project type
Exploratory Research
This investigation is a part of a large nationally funded investigation of determining the origin, hydrology and engineering properties of the large Pleistocene and Holocene dune sheets on the West…

Characterization of synthesised mixed valent natuarlly occuring Fe-films

Lead Institution
University of Greifswald
Principal Investigator
Georg Grathoff
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A new mixed-valent (ferric-ferrous) precursor to ferrihydrite, a floating iron film often misidentified as an oil film, has been identified and preliminarily characterized. This mixed-valent iron…

A proteome for specific cell types in Caenorhabditis elegans

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Donald Moerman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our group is part of an effort to describe the complete transcriptome and eventually proteome for individual cell types during development in the free-living nematode C. elegans. At this point we and…

Characterization of Manganese Cobalt Oxides Using XPS

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Guanguang (Gordon) Xia
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recently, manganese cobalt oxides are found to be promising protective materials to detain Cr migration from the metal interconncet to the cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). With different…

NMR Study of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Z. Gary Yang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In the past two years, PNNL has collaborated with the University of Connecticut with aims to develop nanostructured hydrides and to obtain insights into the hydrogen desorption and sorption of the…

DOE Matrix

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kenneth Roche
Project type
Exploratory Research
A matrix of information and data related to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) science programs and missions will be constructed. A secure web-interface will be developed that will allow this…