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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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Current sensing AFM of CdTe quantum dots on GaAs (111)

Lead Institution
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Principal Investigator
Hong Lou
Project type
Exploratory Research
CsTe have demonstrable potential to serve as nanocharge retaining devices on certain semi-conducting surfaces. Potential applications include high density read-write datea storage. Towards that end…

Heavy Ion Damage in Stainless Steel Alloys

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bruce Arey
Project type
Exploratory Research
We plan to do a series of experiments using Nickel ions, with variations in temperature and damage rate. The first year, we have a matrix of three alloys, two temperatures and four damage rate…

Measurements of Hydrogen Absorption in Oxidized Ti using Nuclear Reactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to characterize the absorption of hydrogen in Ti metal as part of our program to study hydrogen absorption in advanced aerospace materials. This study is also intended as a preliminary…

SEM of Soil Goethites

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Ravi Kukkadapu
Project type
Exploratory Research
SEM of soil enriched with Al-goethites before and after microbial reduction.

Microscopy of Sealant Glass Reaction

Lead Institution
Alfred University
Principal Investigator
S Sundaram
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective is to look at the glass-substrate interface and image the features. We are interested in understanding the reactions at the interface. This will be helpful in developing a correlation…

Chemical Characterization of Arrays of TiO2 Nanocolumns

Lead Institution
University of Texas at Austin
Principal Investigator
David Flaherty
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to study thin nano-structured films of titanium oxide, and vanadium- and nitrogen-doped titanium oxide which we will deposit by employing reactive ballistic deposition (RBD). Properly…

Cover Graphic for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology trade journal

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I will design an artistic rendition of work being conducted by Yuehe Lin (Scientist at PNNL) based on Carbon Nanotube-Templated Assembly of Proteins.

Investigation of electron emission from nano-structures

Lead Institution
Nonlinear Ion Dynamics, LLC
Principal Investigator
Rong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Field emission from metal nanotips will be investigated. Nanotips of different material and structures will be fabricated. The electron emission characteristics of different nanotips under AC and DC…

Photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) study of Cu nanoparticles on TiO2(110)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kenneth Beck
Project type
Exploratory Research
The growth of metals on oxide surface is interested in a number of technological applications, including heterogeneous catalysis, electronic devices and gas sensing. Specifically, metal islands…

Electronic structure determination on mineral surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator
Udo Becker
Project type
Exploratory Research
Periodic and cluster electronic structure calculations will be jointly performed on pyrite and galena surfaces to elucidate the energetics of indirect interactions between adsorbates and surface…

tpr & tpo of MoOx capper Ti02

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Elder
Project type
Exploratory Research