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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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Characterization of nanostructured ceramics

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Susmita Bose
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nanostructured calcium phosphates, titanium dioxide and lead zirconate titanate ceramics will be characterized using field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). This ceramics were…

Computational Investigation of Acid Base, Surface Complexation, and Oxidation/Reduction Reaction Mechanisms on Iron Oxide and Iron Silicate Surfaces (Felmy Rustad BES, PNNL SCOPE #22130).

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Andrew Felmy
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project is directed at providing a molecular scale understanding of surface complexation reactions occurring at oxide, oxyhydroxide, and silicate mineral surfaces through the use of molecular…

Chalcogenide Surface Science

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Chalcogenide nanowires have been observed to form on soda lime glass and fused quartz substrates. These materials have potential application for analytical and photonic devices. Further research is…

Hydrogenation of pyrolysis oils to create gasoline.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Douglas Elliott
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pyrolysis Oil to Gasoline Introduction In the DOE report "Opportunities for Biorenewables in Oil Refineries," refined pyrolysis oils were shown to have the potential to replace a…

Characterization of Lithium Aluminate Powders

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bradley Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Enriched lithium aluminate powders have been commercially produced for high-yield, high-through-put, dry press preparation of low temperature sintered pellets. These pellets are used for the tritium…

Proteomic Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans Under Oxidative StressIrradiation

Lead Institution
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Principal Investigator
Michael Daly
Project type
Exploratory Research
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive extremely high doses of gamma-radiation and we have recently shown that high intracellular concentrations of Mn(II) facilitate resistance by…

Neuro-Linguistic Progranning History

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this project, I will be providing 3-D animation in support of a video production, that deals with the topic of behavioral linguistic programming.

Deposition of Metal-Doped Oxides for Spintronic Applications

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tiffany Kaspar
Project type
Exploratory Research
For spintronic devices such as spin-FETs, efficient injection of spin-polarized electrons into a semiconductor material is necessary. For devices compatible with current semiconductor technology,…

Deploy Lustre as a global Filesystem on the HPCS2 Supercomputer

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Evan Felix
Project type
Exploratory Research
Inorder to support the need of the HPCS2 Computer system, the Lustre filesystem will be used. To Deploy this system research will need to be done to fully balance the IO throughput rates and system…

Deploy Lustre as a global Filesystem on the HPCS2 Supercomputer

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Evan Felix
Project type
Exploratory Research
Inorder to support the need of the HPCS2 Computer system, the Lustre filesystem will be used. To Deploy this system research will need to be done to fully balance the IO throughput rates and system…

In situ XPS measurements of Reforming Catalysts

Lead Institution
Research Triangle Institute
Principal Investigator
Velu Subramani
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is to perform in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization of some reforming (powder) catalysts. We, at Penn State University, under the supervision of Prof.Chunshan…