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Projects

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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Determination of the Catalytic Properties of Metal Coated Nanowires

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Aaron Lalonde
Project type
Exploratory Research
Coating of nanowires is being investigated to broaden potential uses for future applications. Coatings of Ni and Pt nanoparticles have been synthesized on silicon carbide nanowires by plasma enhanced…

Fast-OS PetaScale Linux

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
R Studham
Project type
Exploratory Research
Peta-scale computers with thousands of times more computational power will be available to scientists by the end of this decade. The research and development of these next generation computing…

Electrochemical detection of lead in saliva

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Wassana Yantasee
Project type
Exploratory Research
Saliva samples containing trace amount of lead will be subjected into an electrochemical flow cell to determine the concentration of lead

Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Strontium Cobaltite

Lead Institution
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Principal Investigator
Alan Anderson
Project type
Exploratory Research
There has been increasing interest in oxygen-deficient perovskite structures for use in solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen separation membranes. Strontium Cobaltite (SrCoO3) typically exists in the…

Trace metal composition of Cobalt

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Cliff
Project type
Exploratory Research
I would just like to ust the TOF-SIMS to identify trace metal constituents in Cobalt samples