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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. 

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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SEM/EDS of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell seal materials

Lead Institution
US Department of Energy, Washington, DC
Principal Investigator
John Vetrano
Project type
Exploratory Research
The purpose of proposal is to examine the surface topography and composition of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) seal assemblies. These assemblies have been produced and then tested. We want to…

Demonstration of the Capability of Mobility-Controlled-Flooding Technology to Overcome Heterogeneity Induced Bypassing in Subsurface Remediation (PNNL LDRD #90001
Overcoming Heterogeneity Induced Bypassing)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Lirong Zhong
Project type
Exploratory Research
Introduction Heterogeneity induces bypassing of low-permeability zones in subsurface fluid flooding operations for remediation purposes. The contaminant in the bypassed areas is therefore…

Animation for Morphing Catalysis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I would like to build an animation depicting research that Chuck Peden is conducting in the area of morphing catalysis.

MOCVD Growth of CaP Films

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Hongbo Lu
Project type
Exploratory Research

Structural Analysis of Kinetically Stabilized Core-Shell Nanoparticles

Lead Institution
University of Maryland, College Park
Principal Investigator
Bryan Eichhorn
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to collaborate with PNNL researchers to perform high resolution TEM structural and compositional analysis (EDX, EELS) of new types of core-shell particles (e.g. Pd@Cu and Cu@Pd) to gain a…

Time-Revolved Laser Spectroscopy of Europium Adsorbed on Gibbsite and Silica

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Gregory Korshin
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is to continue and expand exploration of adsorbate-substrate interactions in environmentally-relevant systems using state-of-the-art spectroscopic methods. The previous phase of this…

Foldable Polymers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
We introduce a new class of foldable oligomers consisting of alternating rigid and flexible regions. The rigid segments overlap to give ?-stacked folded conformers whose formation is driven mostly by…

Analysis of nanoparticulates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Hoppe
Project type
Exploratory Research
Perform analysis of the suspected carbon nanoparticle samples to identify the morphology and chemical composition via SEM-EDS, TEM, Auger ES, SIMS. This effort is high priority and extremely urgent…

SEM Analysis of Rotating Drum Impactor Filter strips for biological species

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
The samples to be analyzed are time-resolved filter samples taken as part of a DHS study on biologocal backgrounds at the SFP airport. These samples will be analyzed by SEM for times corresponding…