EMSL Capabilities

EMSL offers—at one location—a comprehensive array of cutting-edge resources that are available to its users. To meet their specific needs, users may employ any combination of equipment and capabilities from the six facilities housed within EMSL. The facilities cover an array of topics.

• Fundamental research on the chemistry and physics of complex systems determines molecular information about processes occurring at the surface and interface of liquids, solids, and gases.
• Minerals and microbe surfaces are examined using environmental spectroscopy and biogeochemistry analysis and modeling.
• Structural biology, solid-state materials and catalysis, and imaging studies are the focus of EMSL's high-field magnetic resonance resources, which include spectrometers ranging from 300 to 900 MHz.
• Proteomics research by high-throughput techniques is carried out using high-performance mass spectrometers.
• The interfacial and nanoscale science of materials are determined by material synthesis, characterization, and microanalytical separations and sensing.
• Computational studies of physical, chemical, and biological processes are performed out using molecular science computing hardware, software, and visualization resources.