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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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Thermal Analysis of Photopolymerized Polyacrylate thin films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Linda Sapochak
Project type
Exploratory Research
Many times photopolymerization of a formulation mixture does not go all the way to completion. Smaller oligomeric components added to the formulation to aid in mechanical, adhesive and/or thermal…

Process images produced by MRM/confocal and CARS/TPC microscopes

Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Gary Holtom
Project type
Exploratory Research
Access to AFS and SDA is required for substantial bodies of data collected in collaboration with MR Imaging and Cell Biology coworkers. Some custom software (Chris Parkinson) will be used but at the…

Surface and Interface Studies of Photochemically Initiated Immobilization

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
Mingdi Yan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The ability to precisely control surface and interface properties is of paramount importance in applications ranging from catalysis, adhesion, sensing, to nanoscale devices. Critical to these…

The Thickness Measurement of Electrolyte Cast on Mylar Film.

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Sung-tae Hong
Project type
Exploratory Research
The Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a device converting chemical fuels directly into electrical power. In recent years, considerable advances have been made regarding SOFC technologies. However,…

Investigations of a water doser for UHV ice studies

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Jason Donev
Project type
Exploratory Research
We want to look at ice in a UHV system. We have designed and built a water vapour transport system for ultra high vacuum. We need to test the ice that is deposited on a substrate with our…

Evaluation of SGI VRML Java bean and Cosmo development environment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Thurman
Project type
Exploratory Research
In support of the Computational Science and Engineering Initiative, we are developing a prototype collaborative environment to support multi-step finite element analysis processes. This effort is…

Analysis of chemical biosignatures in rock

Lead Institution
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pamela Conrad
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are developing strategy and methods for non-Earthcentric life detection. We define biosignatures as measurable chemistry and structures found over several scales of observation. We are presently…

Nano polyaniline prepared by electrochemical polymerization

Lead Institution
Tsinghua University
Principal Investigator
Jun Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
We proposal to prepare the nanopolyaniline, one of conductive polymer on the surface of platinum plate by electrochemical polymerization. By changing the reaction conditions, the desired morphology…

Isotopic Labelling in the Dry Reforming of Methane

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
William Thomson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the experiment is to determine the degree to which the carbon in a fresh carbide catalyst participates in the dry reforming of methane. This will be accomplished by utilizing C13…