Science Highlights
EMSL’s Chinook provides a new angle for validating pore-scale flow simulations
Go with the flow
Released: May 16, 2013
Scientifically, simply “going with the flow” can have great implications. In natural porous media, such as soils, subsoil vadose zones, and aquifer systems, accurately simulating detailed flow velocity fields can elucidate a multitude of macroscopic phenomena.
EMSL tools reveal morphology, growth mechanisms of precipitates from scCO2 storage
Rods and rosettes
Released: April 16, 2013
A study that revealed new details about the geochemistry of scCO2 underground storage, made possible with EMSL’s helium ion microscope, is featured on the April 2013 cover of Microscopy and Microanalysis.
Theory models, EMSL capabilities illuminate how particles grow in the atmosphere
From clusters to clouds
Released: April 09, 2013
With EMSL’s mass spectrometry capabilities, scientists examined and modeled kinetics and energetics of clusters that may serve as precursors to atmospheric new particle formation. Their discoveries may improve the accuracy of existing atmospheric models.
Micromodels redefine how bubbles characterize CO2 gas flow
Breaking down the bubbly
Released: March 20, 2013
EMSL's Microfabrication and Subsurface Flow and Transport capabilities helped scientists model how mobile bubbles in reservoir storage conditions create a flow barrier from exsolved carbon dioxide, which shows promise for future geological sequestration.
Nanoclusters in steel add strength, stability under irradiated conditions
A steel trap
Released: March 05, 2013
Scientists using various analysis tools at EMSL to examine and quantify complex nanoclusters within oxide dispersion strengthened steels have a new view of how these metal materials display resistance and stability under a range of irradiation conditions.
Theory builds on experiment, points way toward better fuel systems
Burst of energy
Released: February 27, 2013
New atomic-level details about how butanol burns, found with the help of EMSL’s supercomputer Chinook, are making combustion chemistry models more accurate and helping design fuel systems that burn more efficiently and cleanly.
New protein probes find enzymes for biofuel production
Protein probes
Released: February 05, 2013
New protein probes and proteomics tools at EMSL are helping scientists find the best biomass-to-biofuel production enzymes that nature has to offer.
Biochemical studies provide insight into an RNA silencing pathway
The great repression
Released: January 29, 2013
New studies using Arabidopsis thaliana and mass spectrometry tools at EMSL are offering insight about genetic and biochemical processes that govern gene regulation and development in plants—an understanding relevant to biomass-to-biofuel production.
