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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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Amorphous Semiconductor Analysis using Ion Beam Tools

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this proposal is to develop new materials for high resolution, room temperature gamma radiation detection. We propose to develop high Z, high resistivity, amorphous, semiconductors to be…

Fundamental Studies of Nitrogen Oxide Surface chemistry: A Model System approach

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janos Szanyi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In our proposed research we will employ a model system approach to elucidate the structure-reactivity relationships of base-metal oxide nanostructures supported on planar oxide substrates. The major…

Environmental proteomic analysis of anaerobic methane oxidizing systems

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Steven Hallam
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Prokaryotic microorganisms represent the majority of living things on Earth. In many cases, interdependent constituents of this vast microbial biota play decisive roles in defining biogeochemical…

Post Growth Analysis of GaN and InGaN Grown with MOCVD

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Tai-Chang Chen
Project type
Exploratory Research
InGaN alloy system is appropriate for light detection due to its direct bandgap and high absorption coefficient. The bandgap energies of wurtzite GaN and InGaN are 3.39 and 1.89 eV, respectively. …

Characterization of PZT/PLZT Multilayers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Bahr
Project type
Exploratory Research
Thin ferroelctric films have been grown using solution deposition methods. Films of alternating layers of lead - zironcate - titanate and lead - lanthanum - zironcate - titanate have been grown,…

X-ray Photoemission Study of Graphite

Lead Institution
UCAR Carbon Company Inc.
Principal Investigator
Samina Azad
Project type
Exploratory Research
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 mechanisms of the…

Molecular Recognition at the Electronic Level

Lead Institution
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Principal Investigator
John Stezowski
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal of the proposed research is to develop a new approach to understanding biochemical macromolecular recognition of cofactors and substrate molecules through a graphical display of HOMOs and…

Exploratory Synthesis of Novel Cluster-Based Nanomaterials

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Rolla
Principal Investigator
Massimo Bertino
Project type
Exploratory Research
When materials are reduced in size to the nanometer scale, their physical and chemical properties undergo major changes and become size-dependent, forming the foundation of nanoscience and…

Radionuclide Reduction by Anaeromyxabacter dehalogenans

Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
Frank Loeffler
Project type
Exploratory Research
The genus Anaeromyxobacter was described only recently, and members of this group appear to be major contributors to the biogeochemical cycling of metals. We demonstrated that Anaeromyxobacter…

Mobilities of Ions at High Temperature

Lead Institution
University of Maine
Principal Investigator
Jay Rasaiah
Project type
Exploratory Research
Molecular dynamics simulation is used to study the ion mobilities.

Eignesolver

Lead Institution
IBM
Principal Investigator
Fred Gustavson
Project type
Exploratory Research
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