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Mark Engelhard

Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
ORCID
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Projects

Toward a Catalyst Digital Twin

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nicholas Nelson
Project type
Contracted Time
The chemical potential of atomically dispersed transition metal atoms (adatoms) is well known to determine catalyst structure and mediate its structural evolution during reaction through the…

Biological Templates f or Synthesis of Ordered Ceramic Nanostructures

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yongsoon Shin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The synthesis of nano-architectured materials continues to be an evolving research area in nanoscience and nanotechnology because structural complexity enables often unexpected physical and chemical…

Accelerated Fuel-Cladding Interaction Study using Surrogate Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Exploratory Research
A Lab-level LDRD study on acceleration of fuel-cladding science is developing a miniature specimen test capability using HT-9 cladding material and ZrO2 with and without Ga doping as nuclear fuel…

Develop fundamental surface science characterization data for use in improving mixed alcohol synthesis catalysts via Computational Investigation of Ethanol Synthesis from Biomass-derived Syngas Using Rh-based Catalysts

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Shawn Kathmann
Project type
Exploratory Research
Novel catalyst design is essential and combined experimental and theoretical/computational catalysis can provide the essential mechanisms, influence of promoters, energetics, selectivity, and…

Functional Materials for Separation and Sensing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jay Grate
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A large number of mission areas of the US. DOE demand functional materials that will meet the operational requirements of targeted applications. Indeed, innovative solutions to pressing national…

Characterization of the bio-oil hydrotreating catalysts

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mark Engelhard
PNNL is working on an EERE international collaboration project to exchange scientific and technical information on biomass feedstock production and conversion to biofuels with China and additionally…

Field emission SEM of anode supported YSZ fuel cells poisoned by Cr

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Simner
Project type
Exploratory Research
Cr voltatilization from SOFC alloy interconnects causes rapid degradation of SOFC catrhodes. We have purposefully doped cathodes with different Cr-containing compounds (relevant to SOFCs) to…

Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials and Cluster-Assembled Materials

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Lai-Sheng Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This proposal is a continuation of research under EMSL User Proposal #21790. This program is focused on exploratory syntheses of anionic metal clusters based on our gas-phase studies. A long…

XPS Surface Analysis of Metal Coupons

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jerome Birnbaum
A series of metal coupons will undergo heat treatments under varying conditons in a separate PNNL laboratory from EMSL. Following the treatment the coupons will be delivered to Mark Engelhard to…

Advanced electrode concepts for CdZnTe radiation detectors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Carolyn Seifert
Project type
Exploratory Research
Radiation detector devices manufactured from CdZnTe can be used at ambient temperature. However, spectroscopy using CdZnTe detectors requires some sophisticated approaches to signal generation and/or…

Ceria Nanomonitors for Trace Oxygen Monitoring in Portable Energy Systems

Lead Institution
University of Texas at Dallas
Principal Investigator
Shalini Prasad
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The overarching research objective is development of a portable electrical sensor for rapid detection of trace gases with enhanced sensitivity and specificity. This pilot project seeks to use EMSL…

Microscopy Investigation on Nanostructured Electrodes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jiguang Zhang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of this proposal is to use EMSLs advanced electron microscopy facility to characterize the compositions and properties of the nanostructured electrode and nanostructured materials and…

Designing Nanomaterials for Fuel Cells Electrocatalysts

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Yuehe Lin
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Fuel cells are very important in addressing the issues with environment and global climate change. The main challenges for developing fuel cells are the prohibitive production cost and poor…

Kinetic Study of Heterogeneous Reaction of Soot with Reactive Oxidants

Lead Institution
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Hai Wang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Heterogeneous reactions occurring between aerosol particles and reactive gaseous species in the atmosphere have significant impacts on atmospheric composition and chemistry, global radiative forcing,…

Mechanistic Understanding of Glass-Water Reaction

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Eric Pierce
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The construction of valid rate models, such as the Transition State Theory Kinetic Rate Equation, to describe the dissolution of rock-forming minerals, the evolution of soils, and the corrosion…

MgO-based double salt absorbent for warm temperature CO2 capture

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David King
CO2 absorbent development has gained great attention as a part of syngas clean up from fossil fuel gasification power plants, as well as other industrial applications which produce a highly…

Adhesion of Polymer Spheres to Modified Natural Fibers

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Holbery
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The technical motivation of the research is to advance current capabilities in natural fiber surface chemistry to develop modification processes that simultaneously displace water within the fiber…

Optical and structural properties of doped ZnO nanocrystals

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Matthew Mccluskey
Project type
Exploratory Research
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconductor that has attracted resurgent interest as an electronic material for energy applications. With a direct gap of 3.4 eV at room temperature, ZnO is a wide band gap…

Synthesis with Atomic Scale Control for Highly Selective Catalysts

Lead Institution
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator
Ayman Karim
The proposed work is focused on catalyst design for the conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. Specifically, we propose a rational design methodology aimed at controlling the catalyst…

Determination of Interstitial and Interface components of chrome coatings

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mark Engelhard
Interfacial and interstitial components can be introduced into electrochemical deposited chrome plate, either intentionally or as a side effect of contamination. We are interested in determining the…

Characterization of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes after exposure

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Olga Marina
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The purpose of this project is to gain understanding how the fuel electrode chemistry and microstructure is affected by exposure to coal gas contaminants. This is of importance to operating solid…

Evaluation of Ni-Plated Zircaloy Getter Surface Characteristics

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mark Engelhard
The Tritium Target Program (TTP) uses getter tubes made of nickel-plated Zircaloy (NPZ) to contain tritium as it is generated in burnable absorber rods. The NPZ getters meet the applicable…

Addressing Challenges in Nanoscale Characterization

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Daniel Gaspar
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Nanoscale materials offer the promise of significant advances in fields as diverse as the production, storage and efficient use of energy, sensing and environmental remediation. The characterization…