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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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EM analysis of bacterial co-cultures

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Fred Brockman
Project type
Exploratory Research
A co-culture of a sulfur-reducing bacteria sp. Desulfovibrio and methanogenic bacteria sp. Methanosarcina could show synthropic existence of these species. A morphological study on electron…

(gvl3425)Intrusion Detection Video

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I will be creating animation clips for a video that deals with protecting our nations plutonium production and storage facities from unwanted intrusion. The video focuses on current weeknesses at at…

(gvl3425)Intrusion Detection Video

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I will be creating animation clips for a video that deals with protecting our nations plutonium production and storage facities from unwanted intrusion. The video focuses on current weeknesses at at…

(gvl3426)PNNL Past and Future Grounds Projects

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I will be building a 3-D model depicting past and future projects of PNNL grounds. This model will be used to render various images and interactive media to be put on a web site and kiosk. Also the…

On-Line Determination of Selected Vapor-Phase Hoffmann List Compounds by PTR-MS

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Gregory Anderson
Project type
Exploratory Research
Few consumer products have undergone the scrutiny applied to tobacco cigarettes. Selected carcinogenic components found in tobacco smoke are compiled in the Hoffmann List, which presently contains…

Probing the Dynamics of a Protein Hydrophobic Core at Low Temperatures

Lead Institution
University of Alaska at Anchorage
Principal Investigator
Liliya Vugmeyster
Project type
Exploratory Research
Hydrophobic cores are found in the interior of globular proteins and are essential for the formation of the folded state. The core represents a complex dynamical medium reflecting the existence of a…

material modification by dense electronic excitations

Lead Institution
CNRS
Principal Investigator
Marcel Toulemonde
Project type
Exploratory Research
Material modifications by dense electronic excitations Proposal 34315 by M. Toulemonde from CIMAP-GANIL, Caen, France. EMSL User Proposal Motivation: When penetrating a solid, energetic ions…

High-k oxides and their mixed oxide systems

Lead Institution
University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Investigator
Chintalapalle Ramana
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The miniaturization of silicon (Si) electronic devices is forcing silicon oxide (SiO2), the conventional gate dielectric, to face its size-limits where its leakage current and reliability are of…

Characterization of Mercury Reduction by Fe(II) Minerals

Lead Institution
Rutgers University
Principal Investigator
Nathan Yee
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Mercury is a key contaminant of concern found in Department of Energy sites. Because the chemical form of Hg strongly affects its toxicity and subsurface transport, there is significant interest in…

Functional Materials for Separation and Sensing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jay Grate
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A large number of mission areas of the US. DOE demand functional materials that will meet the operational requirements of targeted applications. Indeed, innovative solutions to pressing national…

DNA methylation-dependent patterns of histone post-translational modification

Lead Institution
Indiana University - Bloomington
Principal Investigator
Craig Pikaard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In eukaryotes, chromosomal DNA does not exist as a naked molecule, but is complexed with proteins to form chromatin. As a first step in chromatin formation, 167 bp of DNA is wrapped around a histone…