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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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Electronic structure determination on mineral surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator
Udo Becker
Project type
Exploratory Research
Periodic and cluster electronic structure calculations will be jointly performed on pyrite and galena surfaces to elucidate the energetics of indirect interactions between adsorbates and surface…

tpr & tpo of MoOx capper Ti02

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Elder
Project type
Exploratory Research

Development of High Q Head

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
James Bruce
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are currently in the process of designing and constructing a high performance Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. One of the necessary components of the instrument is a…

FTIR and SEM characterization of desert varnished rocks

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
We intend to characterize the spectral, polarization, and microscopic morphology of desert varnished rock samples using FTIR polarization and SEM analyses. This work supports the efforts of the PI…