Projects

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.™

Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Graphite

Lead Institution

UCAR Carbon Company Inc.

Principal Investigator

Samina Azad

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Majority of the energy requirement of many industrial processes is met through utilization of reactions of carbon and carbonaceous materials with oxygen, steam, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The…

Non-destructive SEM-based analysis of complex functional structures in insects: development of tools for rapid species diagnosis in tropical biodiversity surveys

Lead Institution

University of Idaho

Principal Investigator

N Pellmyr

Project type

Exploratory Research

Primary analysis of high levels of biodiversity requires means to rapidly recognize distinct biological species. This is traditionally done using semi-destructive methods. The proposed project will…

High-resolution interfacial studies of nano-scale oxide films

Lead Institution

Harvard University

Principal Investigator

Shriram Ramanathan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Thin film transition metal-oxides are of great interest to a number of areas ranging from nano-electronic devices to alternate energy technologies. We propose to use the unique ion beam facilities at…

High performance sequence alignment: OMB software effectiveness metric studies for FY06

Lead Institution

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kenneth Roche

Project type

Exploratory Research

ScalaBLAST is a new software extension to the NCBI BLAST distribution enabling very high throughput for biological sequence alignments. ScalaBLAST has been selected by OMB as a test code expected to…

Infrared Spectra of HCN at Low Temperatures

Lead Institution

NASA Langley Research Center

Principal Investigator

Mary Smith

Project type

Exploratory Research

The scientific return from Cassini and other missions to the outer planets will be enhanced by improving fundamental knowledge of the spectroscopic parameters in the 14-&#956;m bands of hydrogen…

Effects of Temperature and Time (130 Years) on Surface Charges and Chemical Properties of Black Carbon

Lead Institution

Cornell University

Principal Investigator

Chih-hsin Cheng

Project type

Exploratory Research

In recent years, geochemical and biological properties of black carbon (BC) have received increasing attention owing to its potential importance in a wide range of biogeochemical processes. BC refers…

Development of Variational Transition State Theory

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Donald Truhlar

Project type

Exploratory Research

Molecular beam scattering measurements on anatase TiO2(001) and
rutile TiO2(110)

Lead Institution

North Dakota State University

Principal Investigator

Uwe Burghaus

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Heterogeneous catalysis is a key industry in our modern technological world. Despite the pertinent economic impact of heterogeneous catalysis, the mechanistic understanding of chemical reaction…

Characterization of Novel DNA/Semiconductor Nanoconjugates

Lead Institution

California State University, Los Angeles

Principal Investigator

Feimeng Zhou

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The proposed study is to develop a controllable methodology by which the inorganic compounds can be evenly grown along the DNA template at molecular level and investigate the impact of various…

Fundamental Investigations of Heterogeneous Catalysis Using Isotopic Transient Kinetic Analysis

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Robert Disselkamp

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This project will apply a unique capability at PNNL for heterogeneous catalysis R&D employing isotopic transient kinetic analysis (ITKA) techniques with mass spectroscopic and in-situ…