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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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Near Real-time Alkene Sensor for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Monitoring

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Reza Shekarriz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The goal for the proposed project is to be able to take advantage of the current investments made at EMSL for the development of TDS to evaluate the potential for combining the TDS with the current…

Near Real-time Alkene Sensor for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Monitoring

Lead Institution
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Reza Shekarriz
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal for the proposed project is to be able to take advantage of the current investments made at EMSL for the development of TDS to evaluate the potential for combining the TDS with the current…

MeV Ion Irradiation of Galilean Satellite compositional analogues

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will explore the effects that MeV irradaion has on candidate compositional analogues of surface non-ice materials s of the the Galilean satellites Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. The…

Mev He Ion Implantation in Si Wafers

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Fumio Ohuchi
Project type
Exploratory Research
The aim of this proposed work is to probe the inter-defect distribution (IDD) model that relates the phonon correlation length to the ion dose received by a material such as silicon. Previous…

18-Oxygen uptake measurements on Ceramic samples

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Kerstetter
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to measure the 18-oxygen uptake on several ceramic samples (La-Sr-Cr-Fe-O). The uptake of the 18-oxygen will be measured using the nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) at…

Thermal Analysis of Photopolymerized Polyacrylate thin films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Sapochak
Project type
Exploratory Research
Many times photopolymerization of a formulation mixture does not go all the way to completion. Smaller oligomeric components added to the formulation to aid in mechanical, adhesive and/or thermal…

Process images produced by MRM/confocal and CARS/TPC microscopes

Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Gary Holtom
Project type
Exploratory Research
Access to AFS and SDA is required for substantial bodies of data collected in collaboration with MR Imaging and Cell Biology coworkers. Some custom software (Chris Parkinson) will be used but at the…

Surface and Interface Studies of Photochemically Initiated Immobilization

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Mingdi Yan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The ability to precisely control surface and interface properties is of paramount importance in applications ranging from catalysis, adhesion, sensing, to nanoscale devices. Critical to these…

The Thickness Measurement of Electrolyte Cast on Mylar Film.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Sung-tae Hong
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a device converting chemical fuels directly into electrical power. In recent years, considerable advances have been made regarding SOFC technologies. However,…