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As a scientific user facility, 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 user projects, visit EMSL's Science Central.

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Nondestructive Carbon Nanotube Modification of Tailored Functionality

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of JIN Award 2002, wll be working with Chris Aardahl to develop new materials that harness the qualities of carbon nanotubes. Actuator devices based on these materials will be constructed as…

Nondestructive Carbon Nanotube Modification of Tailored Functionality

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Leonard Fifield
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of JIN Award 2002, wll be working with Chris Aardahl to develop new materials that harness the qualities of carbon nanotubes. Actuator devices based on these materials will be constructed as…

White Layer Characterization

Lead Institution
Portland State University
Principal Investigator
William Wood
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metallurgists have widely reported a thin, featureless layer on the surface of sliding components in many industrires. It has been called white layer due to its resistance to chemical etching. The…

Dilute magnetic semiconducting oxide thin films and nanostructures

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Kannan Krishnan
Project type
Exploratory Research
As JIN Award 2002, we propose to investigate the growth, magnetic properties and spin-dependent transport in the recently discovered Co-doped anatase ferromagnetic semiconductor thin films. Emphasis…

Characterization of Sn Whiskers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
M. Norton
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sn whiskers have for long been known as a failure mechanism in electronic components. This study seeks to determine the origin of Sn whiskers and their growth mechanism. In this collaboration with…

TEM use for analysis of base glasses and doped glasses

Lead Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Lara Rogers
Project type
Exploratory Research
Prepare samples of glass for TEM analysis. Use TEM to look for microdroplet phase separation or micro crystal structure in boro-sodium glass and boro-sodium glass doped with CuO. Take pictures with…

Texture, morphology, and stress in PZT thin films

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Bahr
Project type
Exploratory Research
WSU is developing the P3 microengine, a MEMS device that utilizes a composite flexing membrane to generate power by converting mechanical energy to electrical energy. The membrane is made by lead-…

Scanning Mass Spectroscopy of Aerosols

Lead Institution
Monmouth College
Principal Investigator
George Nieman
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project involves attaching a quadrapole mass spectrometer to an existing Enviromental Scanning Electron Microscope. This will allow for the identification of molecular (organic) species attached…

Protein Signatures of Leukemic Cells

Lead Institution
University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator
Katherine Williams
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this project is to determine whether differences in protein expression in acute promyelocytic leukemia with a t(15;17) segregate with treatment outcome. The strategy to identify…

Uranium(VI) sorption onto hematite surfaces

Lead Institution
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Nuclear Waste Management
Principal Investigator
Dirk Bosbach
Project type
Exploratory Research
Sorption processes on mineral surfaces are relevant for assessing the performance of deep geological nuclear waste deposit sites. Knowledge of basic sorption interactions on a molecular scale is…

Pixel Offset Voltage on a CMOS Liquid Crystal on Silicon Microdisplay

Lead Institution
Three Five Systems, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Michael Cagle
Project type
Exploratory Research
Background: Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Microdisplays have the potential to displace CRT based HDTV units in the marketplace due to their high resolution and low cost achieved from leveraging…

Random Automobile Selection System

Lead Institution
Energy Northwest
Principal Investigator
Randy Stevens
Project type
Exploratory Research
Development of a system to randomly select a fraction of vehicles entering the Energy Northwest Nuclear facility. The selected vehicles will be searched and the system will allow the security…

Electronic Transfer Calculations for the Hemes of Flavocytochrome c3

Lead Institution
Intel Corporation
Principal Investigator
Dayle Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the DOE Office of Science Program Notice 01-21 for Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems, we have received funding for development of new large-scale electron transfer…

Identification of a novel biomolecule in deep-sea clams

Lead Institution
Whitman College
Principal Investigator
Paul Yancey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Marine invertebrates are osmoconformers and must match their intracellular osmotic pressure to the high osmotic pressure of seawater. Compatible organic osmolytes that do not disrupt proteins are…