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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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Profilometry Studies of Printed Electrode Films for Fuel Cell Applications

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Windisch
Project type
Exploratory Research
This study will use profilometry to determine thicknesses of films being deposited on various substrates to be used as electrodes for fuel cell applications. The films are primarily carbon based and…

Proteomics of in stiu Biostimulated Sediments

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Philip Long
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proteomics facility will be used for the detection of peptides/proteins belonging to metal-reducing bacteria in sediment samples from naturally-occurring microbial communities. The bacteria…

Special Projects in Electron Microscopy

Lead Institution
David Heil Associates Corporation
Principal Investigator
James Young
Project type
Exploratory Research
WSU-TriCities course offering for practical training in one or more areas of electron microscopy: TEM, SEM, ultramicrotomy, specimen processing, darkroom procedures and light microscopy. Involves…

Compare thermal signature of air-cooled RX2600 node with SprayCool FX2600 node

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Regimbal
Project type
Exploratory Research
As part of the DOE NNSA Energy Smart Data Center (ESDC) project, a full rack of HP RX2600 nodes has been retrofitted to replace the Itanium Heat Sync with Evaporative Spray Cooling caps to evaluate…

nickel coating of polmer microbeads

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Ozanich
Project type
Exploratory Research
I would like to coat pure nickel on 20-30 micron diameter spherical polymer beads (polystyrene/divinylbenzene). Layer thickness and uniformity are not critical, but desire thin (< few microns)…

Nanostructured Catalysts for Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
University of Alabama
Principal Investigator
Christoffer Turner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Our goal is to understand, at a fundamental level, the interactions in a platinum/graphite catalyst used as an anode of a PEM fuel cell and its influence on CO and H2 oxidation reactions. The metal…

Electron energy loss in radiation detection

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bret Cannon
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will develop the capability at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to measure processes by which high energy electrons lose energy in solids and how that lost energy is…

Infrared Spectra of Nitric Acid

Lead Institution
NASA Ames Research Center
Principal Investigator
Charles Chackerian
Project type
Exploratory Research
High resolution spectra will be recorded of nitric acid in the 5-8 micron spectral range. The spectra will be used to obtain absolute rovibrational line intensities for a number of vibrational bands…

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Acetaldehyde

Lead Institution
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Principal Investigator
Jon Hougen
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have recorded the nu10 torsional band of acetaldehyde at 509 wavenumbers using the pulsed slit-jet, tunable diode laser spectrometer at the EMSL located at the Pacific Northwest National…

Application of Tunable, Ultrafast Lasers to Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry

Lead Institution
Vanderbilt University
Principal Investigator
Richard Haglund
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to use ion-trap mass spectrometry, capitalizing on the asymmetric trap design developed by Dr. Alexander, to study ion and neutral atom and molecule emission under laser irradiation in the…

Gas phase Halogen detection in ambient air

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Robert Disselkamp
Project type
Exploratory Research
Experiments are underway to examine halogen formation in aqueous NaCl/NaBr/HNO3/O3 solutions. Air containing ozone is sent through an aqueous solution and chemistry occurs whereby the effluent gas…

Investigations of ZrO2 and NaNO3 Interfaces using HREELM

Lead Institution
Istituto de Struttura della Materia del CNR, Frascati, Rome
Principal Investigator
Ernesto Paparazzo
Project type
Exploratory Research
We have been involved in several joint projects which investigate the role of surface excitations in low-energy electron- and photon-stimulated desorption phenomena. Thus far, we have examined the…

Remote photoluminescence characterization of subsurface contamination

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Exploratory Research
Characterization of subsurface contamination on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is expensive because of sample collection for offsite analysis, which itself is unacceptably slow. Excavation…

The Preparation and Characterization of Functional Nanocomposite Films by Laser Ablation

Lead Institution
National Institute of Material and Chemical Research, Agency for Industrial Science and Technology
Principal Investigator
N. Koshizaki
Project type
Exploratory Research
An important aspect this project is the investigation of ultraviolet laser ablation techniques in the deposition process. At these shorter wavelengths the absorptivity of the raw composite…