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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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structure and composition of electrochemically active mixed metal oxides

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Larry Pederson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The High Temperature Electrochemistry Center is conducting research on high temperature electronic ceramics, with possible applications in fuel cells, electrolysis, thermoelectrics, and energy…

Response of Radiation Detector Materials to Ions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Brian Milbrath
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will provide a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that control the response of materials to ion energy deposition. The goal is to develop fast screening techniques to…

Response of Radiation Detector Materials to Ions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Brian Milbrath
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project will provide a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that control the response of materials to ion energy deposition. The goal is to develop fast screening techniques to…

An Investigation of Oriented Matroids Associated with a Petri Net

Lead Institution
Victoria University of Wellington
Principal Investigator
Colin Bailey
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the Silicon Cell project (LDRD:Enabling the Silicon Cell: Development of Models of Cell-Signaling Pathways and Networks.) we have associated a Petri net with a reaction sequence. Petri…

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Rahul Zaveri
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to simultaneously characterize the time evolution of hydrocarbon precursor gases as well as the chemical and physical properties of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) using an existing 8-m3…

High Resolution Infrared and Coherent Raman Studies of Propellane

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Joseph Nibler
Project type
Exploratory Research
Propellane is one of the most exotic of all cyclic hydrocarbon, representing a case of extreme ring strain and the only known molecule with the bridgehead carbon atoms forming four bonds in the same…

ESEM analysis of a bacterial biofilm on plastic

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steve Bradley
Project type
Exploratory Research
The authors would like to use an ESEM instrument to search for evidence of biofilm formation on the walls of a plastic column used in microbial transport studies. We hope to analyze a section of the…

Temperature Programmed Reaction of Nitrogen Dioxide Catylysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Craig Habeger
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to improve the scientific and technical understanding of plasma-assisted catalysis (PAC) aftertreatment for heavy-duty diesel engines to meet the proposed EPA…

XRD Analysis of Cr(VI) Products from Waste Sites

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Edward Thornton
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hexavalent chromium is an important environmental contaminant at Hanford and numerous other federal and private waste sites. Identification of any solid Cr(VI) product associated with waste site…