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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
Exploratory Research
This research is focused on the development and application of unique tools and methods to study the fundamental properties and processes that govern the chemistry and microphysics of particles at…

Structure and reactivity of thin aqueous films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregory Kimmel
Project type
Exploratory Research
Energetic processes at surfaces and interfaces are important in fields such as radiation chemistry, radiation biology, waste processing, and advanced materials synthesis. Low-energy electrons (&lt…

Radiation-induced Property Changes in Magnetic Materials

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
John McCloy
Project type
Exploratory Research
The execution of this proposal will advance the state of science regarding the effects of ionizing radiation on the magnetic structure of nanoparticle, granular nanocluster film, and spin glass…

Template Synthesis of Ordered Nanostructured Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Exploratory Research
Both porous and anisotropic nanoarchitectures are generated using an array of solution templated growth and post growth modification approaches that invoke chemical control of molecular self-assembly…

Atomistic Mechanisms of Radiation Interaction with Nanostructured Ceramics

Lead Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
Jie Lian
Project type
Exploratory Research
This EMSL user proposal aims to elucidate atomistic mechanisms of radiation interaction at the nanoscale in order to achieve a scientific understanding of the synergistic effects of temperature and…

Identify Morphology of Initial LIGO Core Optics Scatter Sites: Year 2

Lead Institution
California Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Cheryl Vorvick
Project type
Exploratory Research
The core optics in the Initial LIGO project all show numerous scatter points when illuminated by the interferometer beam. The scatter points are a source of loss in the interferometer, and thus are a…

Atomistic Modeling of Corrosion Accelerants in the Petroleum Industry

Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christopher Taylor
Project type
Exploratory Research
Materials selection is critical to petroleum refining operations, due to the frequently aggressive chemical, flow and thermal conditions encountered by structural components such as pipelines and…

A Systems Biology Approach to Infectious Diseases Research

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Joshua Adkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
We describe an integrated program for coupling advanced capabilities in high-throughput transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics with a comprehensive informatics infrastructure and a…

Exploring the Radiation Damage Resistance of Nanoscale Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Kurtz
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to rigorously test the hypothesis that internal interfaces can be manipulated at the nanoscale to enhance recombination of radiation-produced defects to dramatically…

The role of U(V) during heterogeneous reduction of aqueous U(VI) to U(IV).

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eugene Ilton
Project type
Exploratory Research
This proposal is being submitted in response to the Science theme call: Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science, understanding the chemistry of radionuclides in the subsurface. It directly relates to…

WSU Tri-Cities Electron Microscopy Course

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edgar Buck
Project type
Exploratory Research
Electron Microscopy (EM) has long been an important experimental tool in materials science, biological sciences, and geosciences. At PNNL, electron microscopes, both SEM and TEM, are used in nearly…

Europium Uptake in Various SAM Coated Mesoporous Silica

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Bays
Project type
Exploratory Research
A variety of self assembled monolayers (SAM) may be applied to mesoporous silica substrates. These SAMs may bind europium or other lanthanides from solution. It is important to quantify the…