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Odeta Qafoku

Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Projects

Soil-like habitats for spatial analysis of microbe-mineral interactions

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Arunima Bhattacharjee
The objective of this study is to develop mineral microfluidics compatible with a suite of optical and chemical imaging capabilities at EMSL, as well as SSRL, for probing microbially relevant…

Molecular-scale controls on heteroepitaxy at mineral-water interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Sebastien Kerisit
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of the proposed research is to elucidate and quantify the molecular-scale mechanisms of heteroepitaxial nucleation and growth at mineral-water interfaces. Despite several examples of…

Mineral Reactivity and Transformations in Adsorbed Water Films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
John Loring
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Transformations of minerals covered in thin films of adsorbed H2O are ubiquitous in nature and occur under unique chemical and physical constraints. But in contrast to bulk aqueous systems,…

300 Area Post-Treatment Uranium Solubility

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Zheming Wang
The objective of this study is to investigate the mobility of uranium after reaction of contaminated sediments with phosphate solutions injected at the 300 Area. Boreholes samples that were collected…

Mechanisms of Fe(II)-Catalyzed Transformation of Fe(III)-(Oxyhydr)oxides

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Rosso
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Interaction of aqueous Fe(II) with major Fe(III)-oxides and oxyhydroxides yields the enigmatic catalytically reactive "sorbed Fe(II)" species and apparent facile recrystallization of even…

Betavoltaics from COTS: Power for Years

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Lance Hubbard
Overwhelmingly, betavoltaics’ (BV) long-lasting power opens a broad range of applications which are not currently available. The birth of very low power electronics has opened up a market for the…