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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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Application Optical Spectroscopy to Interfacial Processes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Calvin Ainsworth
Project type
Exploratory Research
Use of laser induced time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to study Surface Reactions of Salicylate on Al2O3, as well as, Europium uptake and partioning in oat roots.

Novel biosensor based on nanomaterials (Scope # 45409)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Guodong Liu
Project type
Exploratory Research
Carbon nanotube and polypyrrole will be used to prepare novel enzyme and immunosensor. The structure of electrode surface will be studied using SEM, TEM.

Surface analysis of functional carbons

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Study spontaneous structural formation processes in nanocomposite materials that involve molecular-level mixing, biological templating, or nanoscale organization that occur in solutions, polymers,…

Ion-Beam Synthesis of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Weilin Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Energetic ion beams will be used for synthesis of novel materials for hydrogen storage. Ion-beam analysis, including RBS, ERDA and NRA, will be performed at varied temperatures to study hydrogen…

Steam Reforming of Bio-mass

Lead Institution
Yonsei University
Principal Investigator
Hyun-seog Roh
Project type
Exploratory Research
EtOH steam reforming was done over supported Rh catalysts. XPS analyses will be done to characterize surface properties of the catalysts.

Advanced Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this four year two phase (R21/R33) project we will apply advanced proteomic and metabolomic nanoflow liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry technologies…

Development of Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metabolomics is a holistic approach to the study of a biological system’s metabolite complement (often generalized to include essentially all small molecules), and its practice is anticipated to…