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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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electron induced low-dose hypersensetivity

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Michael Joiner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Following very low acute radiation exposures, an increase in radiosensitivity has been detected at doses below 1 Gy in a number of cell lines in vitro. This phenomenon is termed ?low-dose hyper…

Developing high-performance parallel languages on the SGI Altix

Lead Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator
Dan Bonachea
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our group is working on developing high-performance parallel languages (specifically UPC and Titanium) for modern supercomputers. We'd like to port our implementation of GASNet (a unified, high…

1H AND 13C NMR STUDY OF BRODIFACOUM STEREOCHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURE

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cort
Project type
Exploratory Research
Brodifacoum is a lipid-soluble warfarin derivative that inhibits vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR) and exhibits potent anticoagulant activity. Because of its chemical stability and use in numerous…

Solid State NMR Characterization of Hydrogenase

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Wendy Shaw
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hydrogenase is a naturally occurring enzyme that efficiently converts H2->2H+ + 2e- and is reversible. Producing synthetic catalysts with these properties is highly desirable, but current analogs…

Isolation of Isotopically-Labeled Nucleic Acids

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Kathleen McAteer
Project type
Exploratory Research
The primary goal of this project is to develop and implement new approaches for using isotopic labels in NMR-based DNA structure determination. 13C and 15N-labeled RNA and DNA will be isolated from…

Metal Ion Binding and Substrate Specificity in Hydroquinone Dioxygenases

Lead Institution
Whitman College
Principal Investigator
Timothy Machonkin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Bacterial pathways for the catabolism of aromatic hydrocarbons are of interest for use in bioremediation of pollutants such as chlorinated arenes. The oxidative ring cleavage step is often the major…

Advanced IMPROVE Studies

Lead Institution
Desert Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Douglas Lowenthal
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed collaboration with Dr. Lizabeth Alexander of PNNL will enable continuous measurement of size-resolved aerosol chemical composition using the EMSL high resolution time-of-flight Aerosol…

Fluorescence Microscopy of Cells and Particles.

Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Gary Holtom
Project type
Exploratory Research
Response of live cells to particles will be studied by analyzing images taken with the fluorescence microscope.

Gold - Acounting and Allocation Management

Lead Institution
Cluster Resources, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Scott Jackson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Gold is an accounting and allocation manager being developed as part of the Scalable Systems Software SciDAC project. Gold is a next generation application which is slated as a replacement to the…

Photovoltaics Projects

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glen Fryxell
Project type
Exploratory Research
The project is working to develop novel synthetic methodologies to synthesize and characterize nanostructured organic-inorganic semiconductor (NOIS) hybrid thin films, creating a new laboratory…

Development of data analysis and visualization software - SpectraMiner

Lead Institution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Principal Investigator
Peter Imrich
Project type
Exploratory Research
Single Mass Spectrometers (SPMS) are capable of producing huge amounts of data in a short time, making data mining a daunting task. Analysis of SPMS data is particularly difficult because of their…

XPS characterization of diesel soot materials

Lead Institution
Seoul National University
Principal Investigator
Do Heui Kim
Project type
Exploratory Research
The soot material from diesel engine is the primary concern environmentally. The researchers are trying to reduce the soot emission by using the "Diesel particulate filter" or soot…

Holographic Imaging Radar Measurement System

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
Engineers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a state-of-the art portable stealth tester that would provide unprecedented characterization of radar…

Electrochemical and AFM/STM Study of TiO2 (Anatase) Film on SrTiO3 Substrate

Lead Institution
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
Principal Investigator
Ladislav Kavan
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to carry out electrochemical and AFM/STM microscopic investigation of highly organized TiO2 (anatase) layer deposited on conductive SrTiO3 substrate. With reference to our informal…