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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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Characterization of Nanostructured Catalysts and Nanostructured Materials

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Jun Liu
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this proposal is to use EMSL's advanced electron microscopy facility to characterize the compositions and properties of the nanostructured catalysts and nanostructured materials…

SEM study of gold implanted gallium nitride

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Weilin Jiang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor material and has a great potential for applications in optoelectronics and power electronics. Prior to the device fabrication, a fundamental…

Growth and Investigation of Co-doped Anatase Films

Lead Institution
Vienna University of Technology
Principal Investigator
Ulrike Diebold
Project type
Exploratory Research
Spintronics [1] combines the electronic and the magnetic properties materials for designing novel devices such as MRAMs, or even a completely new type of logic [2]. Dilute magnetic semiconductors …

Series Connected Micro-Electro-Chemical Oxygen Sensor

Lead Institution
University of Utah
Principal Investigator
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Micro fabrication and characterization of Series connected potentiometric oxygen sensor. The specific instruments required for this project will include pattern generator (5-10um resolution, mask…

Scanning Electron Microscopy of Granular Iron Metal Exposed to Carbonate

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Paul Tratnyek
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have a data set on the kinetics of reduction of 1,1,1-trichloroethane by granular iron metal that shows dramatic effects of exposure to carbonate buffer. To complete a manuscript on these results,…

Characterization of Covalently Bound Monolayer Via XPS

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Michele Bartlett
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recently, we developed a novel technique for the covalent immobilization of polymer thin films on solid substrates using functionalized perfluorophenylazides (PFPAs). Functionalization of the PFPA…

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. …

SEM analysis of doped lanthanum

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Simner
Project type
Exploratory Research
2-4 lanthanum chromite samples to be analyzed using SEM and EDX

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE), based on direct injection (DI) technology has the best potential to provide very high power density with diesel-like efficiency and very low emissions…

Characterization of Oxides on Granular Iron by Raman Spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Paul Tratnyek
Project type
Exploratory Research
See attached PDF file (There was no indication of a 2000 character limit until after I tried to submit the text, so I have included the text as an attachment)

Development of Procedures for Obtaining Clean, Defect-Free Ge Surfaces

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Eric Altman
Project type
Exploratory Research
It is difficult to obtain clean, defect-free Ge surfaces using either standard UHV techniques such as sputter/annealing or wet chemical methods. The principal difficulty is thought to be removing C…

Selective External Accumulation for FT-ICR-MS

Lead Institution
University of Delaware
Principal Investigator
Thomas Bailey
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed project is to spend some time learning how to do external accumulation of ions for Fourier Transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). The information gathered from…

Interfacing an Electrodynamic Ion Funnel with an Electrospray Ionization, Orthogonal Extraction, Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer for Improved Transmission of Single Stranded DNA Molecules.

Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Michael Westphall
Project type
Exploratory Research
In sequencing the Human Genome, the current technology of choice for separating Sanger DNA sequencing reactions is gel electrophoresis. This technique provides high resolution with single base…