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Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (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 EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Pixel Offset Voltage on a CMOS Liquid Crystal on Silicon Microdisplay

Lead Institution
Three Five Systems, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Michael Cagle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Background: Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Microdisplays have the potential to displace CRT based HDTV units in the marketplace due to their high resolution and low cost achieved from leveraging…

Random Automobile Selection System

Lead Institution
Energy Northwest
Principal Investigator
Randy Stevens
Project type
Exploratory Research
Development of a system to randomly select a fraction of vehicles entering the Energy Northwest Nuclear facility. The selected vehicles will be searched and the system will allow the security…

Electronic Transfer Calculations for the Hemes of Flavocytochrome c3

Lead Institution
Intel Corporation
Principal Investigator
Dayle Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the DOE Office of Science Program Notice 01-21 for Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems, we have received funding for development of new large-scale electron transfer…

Identification of a novel biomolecule in deep-sea clams

Lead Institution
Whitman College
Principal Investigator
Paul Yancey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Marine invertebrates are osmoconformers and must match their intracellular osmotic pressure to the high osmotic pressure of seawater. Compatible organic osmolytes that do not disrupt proteins are…

Confirmation of Si-C bonds in Grafted Monolayer Through XPS.

Lead Institution
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Principal Investigator
Cory Struckman
Project type
Exploratory Research
My graduate research involves the grafting of monomolecular layers such as undecene onto SiO2 surfaces. The monolayer has been shown to remain on the surface after repeated washing with solvents. …

Plasma Mechanisms for the Deactivation of Bacterial Spores

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Joseph Birmingham
Project type
Exploratory Research
Objective: Use SEM Micrographs to determine effect of ionized gases on bacterial spore coats. The bacterial spores used are nonhazardous mutant spores that have unique spore coat characteristics. …

Molecular Modeling of Phospholamban

Lead Institution
University of Kansas
Principal Investigator
Krzysztof Kuczera
Project type
Exploratory Research
The primary aim of this project is to use molecular modeling to gain a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of phospholamban (PLB). Phospholamban is a transmembrane protein of 52 amino…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Metyl Nitrite

Lead Institution
Idaho State University
Principal Investigator
Lisa Goss
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will synthesize methyl nitrite at PNNL/EMSL and record its fundamental vibrational bands using the high resolution infrared spectrometer located at PNNL/EMSL.

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Metyl Nitrite

Lead Institution
Idaho State University
Principal Investigator
Lisa Goss
Project type
Exploratory Research
We will synthesize methyl nitrite at PNNL/EMSL and record its fundamental vibrational bands using the high resolution infrared spectrometer located at PNNL/EMSL.

Benchmarking Atmospheric Models on BTC/Opus Itanium Cluster

Lead Institution
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Principal Investigator
Rory Kelly
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to benchmark atmospheric models used at the National Center for Atmospheric Research on the PNNL Itanium Linux cluster. The initial effort will concentrate on…

Benchmarking Climate and Waether Modeling Codes on the PNNL Cluster.(emsl2642)

Lead Institution
Hewlett-Packard Company
Principal Investigator
Loganathan (logan) Sankaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
Early indications of benchmarking several Weather and Climate modeling codes on Itanium2 serevrs are very encouraging. However, for any meaningful simulations of many large weather problems, we need…

Benchmarking Climate and Waether Modeling Codes on the PNNL Cluster.(emsl2642)

Lead Institution
Hewlett-Packard Company
Principal Investigator
Loganathan (logan) Sankaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
Early indications of benchmarking several Weather and Climate modeling codes on Itanium2 serevrs are very encouraging. However, for any meaningful simulations of many large weather problems, we need…

Structural Characterizations of Biogenic Germanium Oxide Nanospheres

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Chih-hung Chang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Background Marine organisms are inspirational sources of nanomaterials. It is well known that many marine organisms intricately incorporate inorganic elements such as calcium and silicon into…

Benchmarking of IA-64 (EMSL2648)

Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Harvey Wasserman
Project type
Exploratory Research
To determine performance of IA-64 systems on codes of interest to Los Alamos and DOE.

GLAD coating microstructure

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dean Matson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the proposed project is to study unique microstructure of sputtered and evaporated coatings produced using glancing angle deposition (GLAD) methods. This will be accomplished using…

Determination of the Bonding of Various Surfactants onto ZrW2O8

Lead Institution
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Principal Investigator
Eric Swanson
Project type
Exploratory Research
My graduate research involves adsorbing fatty acids and alkyl silanes onto ZrW2O8 powders. While there is some evidence through infrared spectroscopy that chemisorption of surfactants to the…