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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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Enamel biomineralization: Solution- and solid-state NMR

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
Dental enamel, the layer of elongated carbonated hydroxyapatite on the outer layer of the tooth, is the hardest tissue in the human body. It needs to be strong because it cannot repair itself nor can…

Multi-Resolution Structure and Reactivity of Kinetically
Roughened Oxide Surfaces: Nanometric Scaling Behavior
and Molecular-Scale Controls (Rosso BES,PNNL Scope #43862. Rosso BES)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Rosso
Project type
Exploratory Research
Surfaces of Fe oxides, Mn oxides and Si oxides (quartz) minerals in natural settings exhibit a significant degree of morphological heterogeneity on scales from 1-1000 nm. Surface roughness and its…

Exploring the processes that control uranyl reduction by magnetite and the growth of nanoparticulate surface precipitates by X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Glenn Waychunas
Project type
Exploratory Research
Uranium (U) has been released into the environment through mining operations, nuclear testing, and accidental spills, and is a contaminant in soils, sediments and groundwater at 70% of the Department…

A Systems Biology Approach to Infectious Diseases Research

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Joshua Adkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
We describe an integrated program for coupling advanced capabilities in high-throughput transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics with a comprehensive informatics infrastructure and a…

High Resolution 1H NMR Metabolomics Using Slow and Fast Magic Angle Spinning

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jian-zhi Hu
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to develop both slow and fast magic angle sample spinning NMR methods that is capable of high resolution and high sensitivity metabolic profiling on biological samples, in particular…

Chemistry and Microphysics of Small Particles

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Alla Zelenyuk-Imre
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research is focused on the development and application of unique tools and methods to study the fundamental properties and processes that govern the chemistry and microphysics of particles at…

Structure and reactivity of thin aqueous films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregory Kimmel
Project type
Exploratory Research
Energetic processes at surfaces and interfaces are important in fields such as radiation chemistry, radiation biology, waste processing, and advanced materials synthesis. Low-energy electrons (&lt…

Radiation-induced Property Changes in Magnetic Materials

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
John McCloy
Project type
Exploratory Research
The execution of this proposal will advance the state of science regarding the effects of ionizing radiation on the magnetic structure of nanoparticle, granular nanocluster film, and spin glass…

Template Synthesis of Ordered Nanostructured Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Both porous and anisotropic nanoarchitectures are generated using an array of solution templated growth and post growth modification approaches that invoke chemical control of molecular self-assembly…

Atomistic Mechanisms of Radiation Interaction with Nanostructured Ceramics

Lead Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
Jie Lian
Project type
Exploratory Research
This EMSL user proposal aims to elucidate atomistic mechanisms of radiation interaction at the nanoscale in order to achieve a scientific understanding of the synergistic effects of temperature and…