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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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Cooperation on Nanocomposite Materials Using PNNL/EMSL User Facilities

Lead Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
Kuiyang Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanotechnology is leading to unprecedented understanding and control over the basic building blocks and properties of natural and man-made materials. We propose here to establish a cooperation with…

Protein complexes altered by oxidative stress and determined by FTICR-MS

Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
Heather Smallwood
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
To clarify the dynamics of radical mediated modifications, originating from reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by macrophages, we analyzed modifications to calmodulin (CaM) using immunoblotting…

Chemical State Image Analysis of Biologically Relevant Patterned Surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Bronwyn Wickes
Project type
Exploratory Research
Static ToF-SIMS imaging enables the spatial analysis of multiple surface species. ToF-SIMS images can be challenging to analyze because of their size, complexity and signal to noise. Images of…

Magnetics Nanoparticles Characterization

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Yuping Bao
Project type
Exploratory Research
Using TEM to chracterize the magnetic nanoparticles shape size , orientation.

XPS characterization of hydroquinone-treated hematite

Lead Institution
University of Wyoming
Principal Investigator
Carrick Eggleston
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are studying the adsorption and reaction of hydroquinone with hematite mineral surfaces in connection with questions regarding biological electron transport for iron reducing bacteria. Our…

Identification of proteins differentially expressed in response IR.

Lead Institution
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Matthew Coleman
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our laboratory has used cDNA microarray studies to identify ionizing radiation (IR) modulation transcripts for genes such as transcription factors, oncogenes, intercellular signaling factors and…

Plastic film near-infrared signatures

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
Measure an assortment of plastic film samples having different polymer thin-layer coatings to determine if their near-infrared spectrum can be used to identify the particular samples. Objectives are…

SEM image acquisition, X-ray elemental analysis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
Acquire images and determine elemental composition of 200-300 nm nanoparticles.

Long Term Monitoring of Permeable Reactive Barriers

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wiwat Kamolpornwijit
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objectives are to evaluate the long-termperformance of PRBs (Fe0) and develope a proper monitoring plan. The reseacrh work include the investigation on numbers of existing PRBs (Fe0) and…

Irradiation Induced Nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator
Lumin Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The ion beam technique has been proven to be a very effective tool for the fabrication of nanostructures of various kinds. The two general types of these nanostructures are those consist of…

Non-empirical simulations of nuclear fuel materials

Lead Institution
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Principal Investigator
Paul Van Uffelen
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Using DFT computer simulation methods implemented in VASP4.6 and NWChem codes we will study the atomic, electronic and magnetic structure of nuclear fuel materials (UO2 and UN) investigating what…

High Resolution Electron Microscopy Study of Nanostructured Materials

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Jun Liu
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of this proposal is to use EMSLs advanced electron microscopy facility to characterize the compositions and properties of the nanostructured catalysts and nanostructured materials and…

THE CHARACTERIZATION OF ADSORBED FE(II) AND ITS REACTIVITY WITH NITRITE

Lead Institution
University of Kentucky
Principal Investigator
Christopher Matocha
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nitrate-dependent, iron(II) oxidation is an important process in the inhibition of soil iron(III) reduction. One important reaction that contributes to this process is chemical reoxidation of…