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Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. 

Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Laser Ablation/Ionization Characterization of Solids

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
J. Dickinson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Deep UV optical materials are required by the semiconductor industry. These generally crystalline and amorphous materials must be resistant to laser-induced damage from high power nanosecond excimer…

Nuclear Reaction Analysis of Biotite Minerals

Lead Institution
University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Investigator
Chintalapalle Ramana
Project type
Exploratory Research
Understanding the chemical processes, crystal chemistry, and elemental composition evolution in minerals is highly important in geochemical, environmental, and geophysical sciences. Biotite, K(Fe2+…

The unoccupied electronic structure of surface adsorbates

Lead Institution
University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator
Hrvoje Petek
Project type
Exploratory Research
I. Solvated electron at surfaces and interfaces Our study based on 2PP and DFT of H2O/CH3OH on TiO2 rutile (110) surface shows that the interfacial solvated electron is very important…

Probing the Electronic Structure of Metal Clusters

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Photoelectron spectroscopy is used to probe the electronic structure of size-selected atomic clusters produced using laser vaporization. In this proposal, we will focus on our studies on small boron…