Intermediate Scale Flow Cells
EMSL builds custom flow cells for pore and intermediate scale experiments to study multiphase flow and transport phenomena in saturated and undersaturated subsurface conditions. For pore scale…
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Soil Hydraulic Property Measurements
Soil hydraulic properties determine the rate at which water and other fluids move through soils. It also determines their water holding capacity, microbial activity, and biogeochemical processes…
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TerraForms
TerraForms is a group of platforms of custom-designed synthetic environments, microfluidics technologies, and in-house instrumentation to simulate soil properties and visualize soil microbial and plant community dynamics.
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TerraForms: Pore-Scale Micromodels
Pore-scale micromodels simulate soil porosity and aggregate size distribution on a microfluidic platform.
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TerraForms: RhizoChip
RhizoChip provides a microscale soil environment that retains the physical structure of natural soils and can be used to map the molecular environment of roots.
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TerraForms: SubTap Microbial and RhizoTap Rhizosphere Platforms
The SubTap and RhizoTap platforms are for rapid analysis of metabolites resulting from plant–microbe and microbe–microbe interactions.
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TerraForms: 3D Bioprinted Synthetic Soil Aggregates
EMSL's three-dimensional bioprinted habitat mimics natural soil and provides a chemically defined, translucent alternative for studying microorganisms.
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TerraForms: Pore2Chip
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Labatory's Pore2Chip creates field representative micromodels and RhizoChips.
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