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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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Material Interface Optimization in ETA-Photovoltaics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Timothy Droubay
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project aims to provide a fundamental scientific foundation to understand the charge transport in novel oxide-based solar cells, and to tailor the transport by doping and/or interface…

Characterization of Defects in Yttrium Orthovanadate

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Joel LeBret
Project type
Exploratory Research
A proposal is being submitted to use the high resolution transmission electron microscope at the EMSL facility in a study of yttrium orthovanadate (YVO4) crystals. Like yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG)…

Development of catalyst and membrane systems for fuel processing.

Lead Institution
Innovatek, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Patricia Irving
Project type
Exploratory Research
The ultimate goal of InnovaTek?s research program is to develop fuel processing technology that helps make it possible for fuel cells to replace internal combustion engines as the power sources for…

Neutrino Oscillation Illustration and Animation (gvl3353)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
This work will be used to help visually explain what a Oscillating Neutrino from the Sun would look like on it's travel to Earth. The first part of the project will be to create a 3-D…

Membrane rearrangements in dengue virus infected cells

Lead Institution
Purdue University
Principal Investigator
Richard Kuhn
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are requesting Standard Access, Open Call, for this General Access type proposal with Non-Proprietary Status. The objective of this proposal is to use high-resolution mass spectrometry to…

Synthesis and Analysis of Organic Hydroperoxide by PTR-MS

Lead Institution
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Principal Investigator
Thomas Karl
Project type
Exploratory Research
The aim of this proposal is to synthesize a few select organic hydroperoxides relevant to atmospheric chemistry and to measure them in the gas phase by Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry…

Scanning probe microscope observation of anatase TiO2 films

Lead Institution
Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology
Principal Investigator
Hiroshi Onishi
Project type
Exploratory Research
Anatase TiO2 is an important material for photo- and magneto-functional applications. Little is known on the structure and reactivity of its surfaces, whereas another popymorph of TiO2 (rutile) has…

Growth-phase regulation of the proteome of Rhodobacter capsulatus.

Lead Institution
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Principal Investigator
Andrew Lang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The alpha-proteobacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus uses a histidyl-aspartyl signaling system for growth-phase-dependent regulation of expression of some genes. The response regulator protein CtrA is…

Growth of Single Crystal La2CuO(4+delta) films

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steve Heald
Project type
Exploratory Research
Recently La2CuO(4+delta) was found to undergo an interesting light-induced transient phase transition. We propose to use XAFS to look at the local structural changes occurring about the Cu and La…

Single Molecule Studies of Multi-Chromophoric Foldamers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
Folding is a strategy ubiquitously used by nature to accomplish remarkable functions such as molecular recognition and enzymatic chemical catalysis. Since we are unable to design synthetic polymers…