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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. 

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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Molecular Interactions and Dynamics at Solid Electrolyte Interfaces

Lead Institution
State University of New York at Binghamton
Principal Investigator
Howard Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We will carry out a systematic study on molecular interactions and dynamics at solid electrolyte interfaces (SEIs) of Li-ion batteries using primarily in situ quantitative nonlinear optical…

Phosphoproteomics of Nuclear Pore Disassembly and Reassembly during Mitosis

Lead Institution
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Stephen Osmani
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Eukaryotic cells segregate DNA equally to daughter cells during mitosis. Although mitosis is well characterized, its regulation is still poorly understood. The most extensive and least understood…

Modeling Conduction in Organic Solar Cells

Lead Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
Daniel Neuhauser
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to model conduction in organic solar cells. Organic solar cells have promise in the manufacturing of efficient, inexpensive solar devices, which are essential to our energy future. A…

Extending Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Technology Into the Future

Lead Institution
Northwestern University
Principal Investigator
David Seidman
Project type
Exploratory Research
With the continuous scaling of microelectronic device dimensions, the variability in MOSFET characteristics, primarily due to the discrete distribution of dopant atoms is a major challenge facing the…

Phenotypic characterization of TCE and PCE degrading Dehalococcoides

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Martin Fisk
Project type
Exploratory Research
We presently have in our laboratory several anaerobic mixed cultures, enriched from contaminated aquifer soils, capable of reductively dechlorinating TCE or PCE fully to ethene in the presence of…

Mass spectrometric analysis of eukaryotic proteosome

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Maxwell
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is catalyzed by the 26S proteasome, a dynamic complex of 32 different proteins whose mode of assembly and mechanism of action is poorly understood. The 26S proteasome…

Degradation of Oxalate Containing Compounds by Soil Microbes

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
David Myrold
Project type
Exploratory Research
Ectomycorrihizal mats are macroscopic structures occurring on the forest floor of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. They can cover up to 25% of the surface area of…

Adsorption of highly functional oxygenates on metal surfaces

Lead Institution
University of Colorado at Boulder
Principal Investigator
James Medlin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is aimed at conducting computational studies to investigate the surface chemistry of functional alcohols on Pd(111) and related surfaces. Such alcohols are key intermediates in the…

W-band pulsed EPR: a) probing 17O ligands in the Mo(V) site of sulfite oxidases; b) ascertaining the long distance limit in Pulse Dipolar Spectroscopy of Gd(III) labeled macrobiomolecules.

Lead Institution
University of Arizona
Principal Investigator
John Enemark
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Abstract W-band pulsed EPR: a) probing 17O ligands in the Mo(V) site of sulfite oxidases; b) ascertaining the long distance limit in Pulse Dipolar Spectroscopy of Gd(III) labeled macrobiomolecules…