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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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Structure and Performance of DNA Biosensors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Cindy Bruckner-Lea
Project type
Exploratory Research
Biosensors typically rely on designing a surface that is functionalized with biomolecules that specifically bind analytes of interest. These surfaces often include specific oligonucleotide sequences…

Surface Analysis of IAQ VOC sensors

Lead Institution
AirAdvice Inc.
Principal Investigator
Meindert Kleefstra
Project type
Exploratory Research
IAQ sensors are used to detect low levels of volatile organic compounds in air. The sensors use an meatl oxide semiconductor later with a WO3 catalysts on an alumina substrate. The conductivity of…

Functional genomics of the root vascular system.

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Gary Stacey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nitrogen (N) management will be a critical feature for the production of bioenergy crops, which are likely to be grown on sub-optimal soils low in N content. One solution to these issues is to employ…

Crystallization Behavior of Bulk Amorphous Alloy

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Amit Bandyopadhyay
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are working with Zr-based bulk amorphous alloy composition. The glass transition temperature for these alloys are ~400 C and the melting point is ~900 C. We have heat treated these alloys at…

Kiln Phosphoric Acid

Lead Institution
JDC, Inc
Principal Investigator
Joseph Megy
Project type
Exploratory Research
Determing the reaction temperature and melting temperature of phosphate ore mexture. TGA-DTA measurements will allow proof of concept for chemistry supporting SBIR program in phosphoric acid…

Charcaterization of the Au nano-cluster materials

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Hai-Feng Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
These are some attached information for the EMSL proposal No. 5401 titled "the synthesis of Au nanocluster materials". Once we obtain the nanoclusters materials, we have to use…

Structural characterization of Nanoporous Thin Films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zdenek Dohnalek
Project type
Exploratory Research
The adsorptive/reactive properties of nanoporous thin films of metals and oxides grown via ballistic deposition technique are being studied in our laboratory. We propose to utilize a variety of ex…

Chemical Characterization of Heterogeneous Inclusions in Soot Particles

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Hai Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the work proposed herein is to characterize the heterogeneous inclusions and their influence on the hydroscopic properties of Diesel and laboratory-generated soot. Laboratory soot…

Surface Studies of Electroctalysts in Methanol Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
Neah Power Systems
Principal Investigator
Kwang Kim
Project type
Exploratory Research
Neah Power Systems is developing small methanol fuel cells based upon a silicon architecture for mobile electronics such as laptop computers and PDAs. Neah's silicon architecture is expected to…

Passive Film Stability in Alloy 22

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Exploratory Research
This program activity will involve the testing of Haynes Alloy 22 to determine if a build up of S will lead to the breakdown of a possive film. This is among the most stable alloys known and it is…

Microcharacterization of Engineered Mono-Sodium Titanate

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edgar Buck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mono-sodium titanate (MST) is being developed by the DOE for removal of strontium and plutonium from high salt wastes. This study looks at the chemical behavior of MST in the presence of special…

Acid vapor weathering of Mars analog surface materials

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose an experimental study of weathering by volcanic acid gases under Mars-like atmospheric conditions on terrestrial analogs to Martian minerals and rocks. We intend to characterize acidic…