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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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Chemistry and Microphysics of Small Particles

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Alla Zelenyuk-Imre
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #17498. Atmospheric aerosol particles impact the global climate by scattering solar radiation to space and in their role as cloud…

Gregory Szulczewski's Proposal

Lead Institution
University of Alabama
Principal Investigator
Gregory Szulczewski
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Hydrogenation of 1-nitro-1-cyclohexene on an Au/TiO2 model catalyst Titanium dioxide is a well-known material for metal-supported catalysis and photocatalysis. In particular, the use of Au…

Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosol Organics

Lead Institution
Desert Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Douglas Lowenthal
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
While organics constitute a large fraction of ambient aerosol mass, their role and effect on particle hygroscopic growth and cloud nucleation remains unclear. Organics are most often present in…

Desiccation of Porous Media to Limit Contaminant Migration

Lead Institution
Auburn University
Principal Investigator
Jacob Dane
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The primary attribute of soil desiccation is the removal of excess moisture from the subsurface, thereby reducing potential downward migration of water and contaminant solutes within the vadose zone…

Fundamental Studies on Biomolecule Ions Desorbed from Open-Air Surfaces

Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Facundo Fernandez
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The mechanisms by which biologically-relevant molecules can be transformed into gas-phase ions is an area of active fundamental research in mass spectrometry (MS), which is relevant to a broad range…

Course in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Donald Baer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This activity involves use of selected EMSL capabilities as one component in a course on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The course is to be held in EMSL where 50% of the time is devoted to lectures…

How Desert Varnish Forms

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Randall Perry
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective is to see if desert varnish is microbially mediated or an organic process. Desert varnish has not been investigated on a micro scale. Careful characterization of varnish structure,…

MeV Ion Irradiation of Non-ice Solar System Analogue Materials

Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
Charles Hibbitts
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will irradiate select non-ice materials with MeV ions of oxyen, sulfur, and carbon. This experiment is to simulate the irradiation of non-ice materials on the surfaces of of the…

Processing of the cysteine protease aleurain

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
John Rogers
Project type
Exploratory Research
This is a project funded by my DOE grant (DE-FG03-97ER20277) from the Office of Energy Biosciences. We are purifying a protease that is localized in a specific prevacuolar compartment in plant cells…

Characterization of nanocomposites using electrochemistry, XPS, TEM and SEM

Lead Institution
University of California, San Diego
Principal Investigator
Xiang-Rong Ye
Project type
Exploratory Research
To investigate the structures and electrochemical properties of carbon nanotubes/catalysts nanocomposites. Nanocomposites will be synthesized at the University of Idaho and characterization will be…

Exchange bias in Fe/MnPd bilayers

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Goran Blomqvist
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are investigating the magnetic exchange bias in Fe/MnPd bilayers. The Fe layers are ferromagnetic whereas the MnPd layers are antiferromagnetic. SQUID, VSM, XMCD and neutron scattering will be…

DEVELOPMENT OF A CAPABILITY TO QUANTIFY ARSENIC IN AN ADSORBENT

Lead Institution
University of Western Sydney, Nepean Australia
Principal Investigator
Saravanamuthu Maheswaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
Arsenic in ground water and surface water is one of the major issues associated with drinking water since arsenic is a toxic metal that has serious effects on human health and the environment. USEPA…