Recent News
Student science poster winners announced
User meeting poster session an opportunity to share research
Released: August 12, 2013
The winners of the EMSL annual meeting student poster competition are: first place-Alyse Hawley, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and second place-Marco Keiluweit, Oregon State University. The poster session was held during EMSL Integration 2013 – The Rhizosphere: Plants, Microbes and Their Interactions.
Scaled up
Predictive models of environmental reaction kinetics made more accurate, scalable
Released: August 08, 2013
Integrated computational and experimental studies show that predictive models of biogeochemical interactions in soils are more accurate and scalable if they consider the reaction chemistry in distinct soil pore structures.
A crystal of a different color
One chemical forms two colors of crystals, sheds insight on agostic bonds
Released: August 02, 2013
Chemists have unexpectedly made two differently colored crystals – one orange, the other blue – from one chemical in the same flask while studying a special kind of molecular connection called an agostic bond. EMSL's supercomputer Chinook was used to perform theoretical calculations on the crystalline structures. The researchers were studying agostic bonds as part of a project to make liquid fuels from carbon dioxide to replace fuels from oil. Read the PNNL news release.
Bhaskaran-Nair receives 2012 M.T. Thomas Award
Honoree presents research findings
Released: August 01, 2013
Kiran Bhaskaran-Nair accepted EMSL’s 2012 M.T. Thomas Award at a recognition ceremony July 31.
Sulfur cleans up
Sulfide and iron work together to reveal a new path for radionuclide sequestration
Released: July 31, 2013
By employing nano zerovalent iron to promote sulfide generation in technetium (Tc)-contaminated groundwater, scientists offer a fundamental geochemical understanding of Tc sequestration and a potential new remediation strategy.
Microbial who-done-it for biofuels
New technique identifies populations within a microbial community responsible for biomass deconstruction
Released: July 31, 2013
A JBEI/JGI/EMSL collaboration has identified microbial species whose enzymes actively deconstruct biomass from switchgrass, a leading potential fuel crop.
EMSL scientist named ACS Fellow
Koppenaal joins the 2013 class of Fellows
Released: July 31, 2013
The American Chemical Society has recognized David Koppenaal, EMSL chief technology officer, as a Fellow of the society for his "outstanding achievements in and contributions to science and the profession of chemistry."
Tunable transfer
Scientists gain first quantitative insights into electron transfer from minerals to microbes
Released: July 30, 2013
Scientists have gained the first quantitative insights into electron transfer from minerals to microbes by studying that transfer in a nature-inspired, protein and iron-based 'tunable' nanoparticle system.
