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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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Molecular dysfunction in alcoholic liver disease.

Lead Institution
Wayne State University
Principal Investigator
Amit Banerjee
Project type
Exploratory Research
Mice transgenic for the human Cytochrome P450 2E1 (primary metabolizer of alcohols in the liver) were fed alcohol intra-gastrically for a month. Upon examination of the liver microscopically,…

Engineering Device Surfaces That Instruct Cell Behavior

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Allison Golden
Project type
Exploratory Research
The development of material interfaces that control cell behavior is a central challenge for the fields of diagnostics, drug screening, biomaterials, biosensors, and tissue engineering. The…

Characterization of Natural Gas Methane Hydrate Rich Sediment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Herbert Schaef
Project type
Exploratory Research
Synthetic and natural gas hydrate samples (NGHP-01, Mt Elbert) will be characterized by FIB-SEM equipped with a cryo stage and residual gas analyzer. Gas hydrate dissociation profiles collected on…

Characterization of Regenerable CO2 Sorbents

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Feng Zheng
Project type
Exploratory Research
Several modified mesoporous silica and activated carbon sorbents were developed at PNNL for CO2 removal. Initial tests show that these sorbents have high adsorption capacity for CO2. The work…

Chemical Processing of Terpene Emissions from Forests

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Paul Doskey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Evaluations of NMOC emission inventories developed for rural and urban areas (which contain large uncertainties) necessitate direct measurement of landscape-scale fluxes. The main objectives of this…

The characterization of the SiC/SiO2/C composite

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Hai-Feng Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have developed an approach to synthesize the nano-crysatlline composite materials of SiC/SiO2/C, TGA and FTIR are very efficient tools for determining the ratio of the componens in the composite…

Fuel-Neutral Studies of Particulate Matter Transportation Emissions

Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
David Foster
Project type
Exploratory Research
Customers and governments are demanding greater fuel efficiency in light duty engine applications. Since the majority of light duty engines in North America are fueled by gasoline, gasoline engine…

Adsorption of highly functional oxygenates on metal surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Colorado at Boulder
Principal Investigator
James Medlin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is aimed at conducting computational studies to investigate the surface chemistry of functional alcohols on Pd(111) and related surfaces. Such alcohols are key intermediates in the…

W-band pulsed EPR: a) probing 17O ligands in the Mo(V) site of sulfite oxidases; b) ascertaining the long distance limit in Pulse Dipolar Spectroscopy of Gd(III) labeled macrobiomolecules.

Lead Institution
University of Arizona
Principal Investigator
John Enemark
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Abstract W-band pulsed EPR: a) probing 17O ligands in the Mo(V) site of sulfite oxidases; b) ascertaining the long distance limit in Pulse Dipolar Spectroscopy of Gd(III) labeled macrobiomolecules…