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As a scientific user facility, 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 user projects, visit EMSL's Science Central.

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Enabling PVFS2 Support over Quadrics for MPP2 cluster

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Weikuan Yu
Project type
Exploratory Research
This is to propose to develop and evaluate a prototype implementation of PVFS2 over Qaudrics in order to accomplish a beta-quality code base that is usable at PNNL. Evan Felix and David Brown…

Enabling PVFS2 Support over Quadrics for MPP2 cluster

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Weikuan Yu
Project type
Exploratory Research
NOTE: This proposal is an extension of a proposal you reviewed last year. He wants to be able to use MPP2-Quadrics Elan4 as long as MPP2 is still up and running. This is to propose to further…

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…

Growth-phase regulation of the proteome of Rhodobacter capsulatus.

Lead Institution
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Principal Investigator
Andrew Lang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The alpha-proteobacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus uses a histidyl-aspartyl signaling system for growth-phase-dependent regulation of expression of some genes. The response regulator protein CtrA is…

Growth of Single Crystal La2CuO(4+delta) films

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steve Heald
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recently La2CuO(4+delta) was found to undergo an interesting light-induced transient phase transition. We propose to use XAFS to look at the local structural changes occurring about the Cu and La…

Computer Simulation of Defects and Interfaces in Nuclear Fuel Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ram Devanathan
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this proposal is to simulate the synergistic effects of radiation damage, elevated temperature and stress on microstructural evolution and fission gas bubble evolution in nuclear…

Investigating Post-translational modifications of kinesin

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Steven Gross
Project type
Exploratory Research
Molecular motor-based transport is essential for numerous cellular functions, and much of it is carried out by the molecular motor kinesin. Impaired or altered kinesin function is implicated in many…

Structure and Bonding in Actinide Oxides

Lead Institution
SOLEIL Synchrotron
Principal Investigator
Steven Conradson
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are studying structure and bonding in actinide oxides, which are critical materials in nuclear fuels, actinide corrosion, actinide waste forms and storage, actinide environmental chemistry, and…

Self-assembly and phase transitions in nanofibers and liposomes

Lead Institution
Northwestern University
Principal Investigator
George Schatz
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanoscale organic and biological materials are of increasing interest for a variety of purposes, from organic electronics to drug delivery, but their structures and self-organization patterns are not…

Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) is a consortium of four institutions (Seattle Biomedical Research Institue (SBRI), deCODE biostructures, University of…

Spin valve with perpendicular anisotropy for spin torque experiments

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Kannan Krishnan
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose a research project directed at the study of spin torque effects in multilayer spin valves with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for magnetic random access memory applications. The spin…

Imaging of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode

Lead Institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Principal Investigator
Cristina Amon
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Microstructure imaging of a solid oxide fuel cell cathode is a necessary component of a computational modeling effort investigating the reactive transport of chromium species in the porous cathode of…