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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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3D Imaging of Organic Nanoparticle Fillers in Organic Matrices

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
John Simonsen
Project type
Exploratory Research
The addition of fillers to polymer matrices is well known to affect their performance, from improving mechanical properties to barrier properties to membrane performance, depending upon the filler…

Growth of Ti-doped Epitaxial alpha-Fe2O3(0001) Thin Films

Lead Institution
Canadian Light Source Inc.
Principal Investigator
Chang-Yong Kim
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to grow epitaxial Ti:alpha-Fe2O3 thin films (200 Å thick) with low Ti concentrations (2% and 4%) and to apply the X-ray standing wave (XSW) imaging method to obtain the atomic…

Mapping of H2O potential in the ice-like medium

Lead Institution
University of Warsaw
Principal Investigator
Joanna Sadlej
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to study the effect of the local environment on the intramolecular properties of water in an ice-like medium. We will use hierarchical descriptions of the intermolecular interactions…

Diffusion Measurements in Polymers and Their Composites

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Lloyd Smith
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Moisture can play a significant role in influencing the mechanical behavior and long-term durability of composites. The current proposal aims to understand the basic concepts of moisture transport in…

Thyroid Hormone and Myocardial Substrate Use with Aging

Lead Institution
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Michael Portman
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Thyroid hormone regulates cardiac function through binding to its nuclear receptors (TRs). Classically, the ligand bound receptors in turn bind to response elements and control transcription of key…

Ferromagnetic study of ZnO based heterojunctions

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Nadarajah Athavan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The search for spintronics materials that combine semiconducting and ferromagnetic properties, dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS), is presently one of the most relevant fields in magnetism…

Chemistry of Aerosols in the North Slope of Alaska: ISDAC 2008 study.

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mary Gilles
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The ISDAC (Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign) field study carried out in the North Slope of Alaska 2008 was a collaborative effort sponsored by the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)…

Tissue distribution and fate of nanoparticles following in vivo exposure

Lead Institution
Procter and Gamble
Principal Investigator
Katherine Sarlo
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The growing commerce in micro- and nanotechnology is expected to increase human exposure to submicrometer and nanoscale engineered particles. Adverse effects of submicrometer and nanoscale particles…

POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Zangar
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and is the second leading cause of death due to cancer. The goal of this study is to use proteomics to identify post-translational modifications …

Effects of the Presence of Helium on Silicon Carbide (EMSL3043)

Lead Institution
University of Arizona
Principal Investigator
L. Corrales
Project type
Exploratory Research
In collaboration between WJ Weber and LR Corrales of PNNL, and C Meis, A Chartier and RM Van Ginhoven of the CEA/Saclay, a study on the interactions of He with SiC crystal forms will be carried out…