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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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FESEM Analysis of Reversible Gels

Lead Institution
Advanced Imaging Technologies
Principal Investigator
Anna Gutowska
Project type
Exploratory Research
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION (PLEASE DO NOT USE ON THE EMSL WEB SITE): We have developed novel polymers based on poly(lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) . These polymers form reversible…

Investigation of Analytical Methods for Trace Analysis of Fluoride Glass

Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mary Cisper
Project type
Exploratory Research
EMSL has several analytical instruments that could be helpful to us in our effort to improve quantification of trace elements such as Fe, Cu, Ni, and Cr (as well as others) in glass samples. To…

Interaction of water and formic acid with oxide surfaces.

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Li-Qiong Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal involves using x-ray photoelectrocn spectroscopy to study the itneraction of water and formic acid with oxide surfacesz. The interaction of formic acid and water with stepped SrTiO3…

Post Growth Analysis of compositionally graded InGaN Grown with MOCVD

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Under the seed funding recently obtained from Semiconductor Research Corporation (Research Triangle, NC), we are investigating nitride-based quantum well structures for the development of direct…

Compositionally Graded V2O5 for Improved Thermoelectric Power

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Conversion of waste heat into useful energy in many applications including automobile exhausts has received considerable attention, recently. As such, there is a growing interest in synthesizing…

Mixed Hamiltoniam Methods

Lead Institution
The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator
Kimihiko Hirao
Project type
Exploratory Research

Developing a Parallel Blochl Code

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Marat Valiev
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will develop a massively parallel version of Bloch's PAW method. PAW is an all-electron method that combines the adaptability of linear augmented plane wave methods with the…

Developing a Parallel Blochl Code

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Marat Valiev
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will develop a massively parallel version of Bloch's PAW method. PAW is an all-electron method that combines the adaptability of linear augmented plane wave methods with the…

Post Growth Analysis of GaN Grown with Low Temperature MOCVD

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
GaN thin films (1-2 microns) have been grown using MOCVD at low temperatures (415-460 C). During growth, disturbances in processing conditions have been purposely introduced to induce changes in…