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™.

TEM investigation of Crystalline silicotitanate in the NA20-Cs20-Si02-Ti02-H20

Lead Institution

University of California, Davis

Principal Investigator

Hongwu Xu

Project type

Exploratory Research

Surface Mondification by Graft-Polymerization

Lead Institution

University of California, Berkeley

Principal Investigator

Yoram Cohen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Characterization of Iron Minerals and Complexes

Lead Institution

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Cleveland Dodge

Project type

Exploratory Research

Nanocoating

Lead Institution

Tsinghua University

Principal Investigator

Jun Li

Project type

Exploratory Research

Au Irradiations

Lead Institution

Savannah River Technology Center

Principal Investigator

Savannah River Technical Ctr.

Project type

Exploratory Research

Laser Ablation Sampling of Mars Analog Minerals

Lead Institution

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Maggie Taylor

Project type

Exploratory Research

Characterization of GaN/InGaN/GaN thin film structures

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Fumio Ohuchi

Project type

Exploratory 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 Co and Cr doped TiO2 rutile for Optimum Thermoelectric Power

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Fumio Ohuchi

Project type

Exploratory 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…

The interaction between uranium(VI) and magnetite surfaces: a combined STM and electron transfer calculation approach

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Frances Skomurski

Project type

Exploratory Research

The interaction between iron-oxide mineral surfaces and uranium(VI) in solution is of interest because of the potential for reducing radionuclide mobility by sorption and/or reduction. The reduction…

Surface investigation on Smart membranes

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xiangdong Feng

Project type

Exploratory Research

Novel biosensor based on nanomaterials (Scope # 45409)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Guodong Liu

Project type

Exploratory Research

Carbon nanotube and polypyrrole will be used to prepare novel enzyme and immunosensor. The structure of electrode surface will be studied using SEM, TEM.

Surface analysis of functional carbons

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yongsoon Shin

Project type

Exploratory Research

Study spontaneous structural formation processes in nanocomposite materials that involve molecular-level mixing, biological templating, or nanoscale organization that occur in solutions, polymers,…

Ion-Beam Synthesis of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Weilin Jiang

Project type

Exploratory Research

Energetic ion beams will be used for synthesis of novel materials for hydrogen storage. Ion-beam analysis, including RBS, ERDA and NRA, will be performed at varied temperatures to study hydrogen…

in situ FTIR Studies of Alumina in a Hydrogen Environment: a Study of Hydrogen Chemistry within Ceramics.

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ashley Stowe

Project type

Exploratory Research

Ceramic coatings have been used for some time to reduce the permeation of hydrogen through metals in nuclear reactor facilities. Alumina has primarily been used as the coating and many permeation…

Steam Reforming of Bio-mass

Lead Institution

Yonsei University

Principal Investigator

Hyun-seog Roh

Project type

Exploratory Research

EtOH steam reforming was done over supported Rh catalysts. XPS analyses will be done to characterize surface properties of the catalysts.

Development of High Throughput Global Metabolomics Approaches based upon Mass Spectrometry

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Thomas Metz

Project type

Exploratory Research

The term 'metabolome' refers to the entire complement of all small molecular weight metabolites and related species at a given time for a system of interest. Quantitative metabolomic…

Advanced Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Thomas Metz

Project type

Exploratory Research

In this four year two phase (R21/R33) project we will apply advanced proteomic and metabolomic nanoflow liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry technologies…

Development of Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Thomas Metz

Project type

Exploratory Research

Metabolomics is a holistic approach to the study of a biological system’s metabolite complement (often generalized to include essentially all small molecules), and its practice is anticipated to…