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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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Determination of the CCR5 and CXCR4 Antagonist and Agonist Binding Site.

Lead Institution
Montana State University
Principal Investigator
Edward Dratz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal focuses on determining the locations of the agonist and antagonist binding pockets for the 7-transmembrane spanning G-Protein coupled receptors (GPCR) CCR5 and CXCR4. G-protein coupled…

Doping inorganic wide-bandgap semiconductors for future energy devices

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Weilin Jiang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Solid-state lighting (SSL) has a significantly higher efficiency of converting electricity to visible light compared to the incandescent (5%) or fluorescent (20%) lighting due to elimination of…

Validation of Whole-Core Determination of Soil Hydraulic Properties

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Fayer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The EMSL Subsurface Flow and Transport Laboratory developed a fully automated Hydraulic Property Apparatus (HPA) that is a significant advance in measurement technology. The HPA uses the multistep…

Ground squirrel proteome: protein modifications through torpor and arousal

Lead Institution
University of Colorado
Principal Investigator
Lois Epperson
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Liver samples from the hibernator, golden-mantled ground squirrel, when separated by 2D gel electrophoresis, demonstrate a quantifiable and as yet undefined physical modification that manifests…

Community Proteomic Analysis of a Near-Shore Anoxic Basin: Saanich Inlet

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Steven Hallam
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs; areas of low dissolved oxygen concentrations) play a major role in biogeochemical cycling within the world's oceans. They are major sinks for nitrogen and sources for…

Molecular Interfaces to Single-crystal Anatase Surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Robert Hamers
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The anatase form of TiO2 is of great interest as a substrate for a variety of photochemical and photoelectrochemical pathways for solar-to-electrical and solar-to-fuel conversion. A number of…

Development of a Microfluidics Flow and Transport Laboratory

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mart Oostrom
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The Environmental Spectroscopy and Biogeochemistry (ESB) Facility, in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, proposes to develop a microfluidics capability to investigate…

13C NMR Investigation of Occluded Carbonate in Aluminum (Oxy)Hydroxides.

Lead Institution
Umea University
Principal Investigator
Jean-Francois Boily
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We outline a plan to monitor the occlusion of carbonate in minerals under well-controlled systems. This study builds upon ongoing work currently funded by the Office of Basic Energy Science,…

chlorinated methane hydrolysis rates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Amonette
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The purpose of the work proposed here is to develop accurate physical chemical data for the hydrolysis rates of carbon tetrachloride (CT) and chloroform (CF) under conditions (temperature, pH,…

Chlorinated Methane Hydrolysis Rates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Amonette
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The purpose of the work proposed here is to develop accurate physical chemical data for the hydrolysis rates of carbon tetrachloride (CT) and chloroform (CF) under conditions (temperature, pH,…

Characterization of amorphous oxide transparent semiconductors

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Gregory Herman
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Recently the field of transparent optoelectronic devices has seen tremendous advances due in part to new inorganic materials developments, processing capabilities, and novel applications. …

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Ozone-Induced Lung Injury

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal for this project is to develop a three-dimensional (3D), geometric database that describes the remodeling of respiratory airways in Rhesus monkeys following ozone challenge.