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Insights of Titania Proportion

Computational capabilities at EMSL offer scientists insight about the catalytic mechanism of titania, a material with potential alternative energy and environmental remediation applications
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Tiny Particle, Big Problem?

Scientists use EMSL resources to weigh the risks of nanoparticles by studying how cells from the alveoli in the lungs respond to them
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Sapphires & Sunscreen

Deposition and characterization tools at EMSL help scientists understand how sapphire substrate orientation affects zinc oxide thin film formation, knowledge needed to design thin films for specific functions
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Quick Change Artist

EMSL's photoelectron emission microscope reveals details about the morphology of In2Se3, a potential material for high-density, high-speed, phase-change data storage and memory devices
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Let There Be Light Yield

EMSL users demonstrate scintillation analysis technique that will aid discovery of new radiation detection materials
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What Are the Chances?

Novel experimental approach developed at EMSL to measure gas-to-particle reaction probabilities
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Complex Uranium

Using experiment and computation, EMSL researchers obtain fundamental insight into the formation of uranium oxide complexes
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On the Surface

Using EMSL resources to understand the common catalyst, TiO2, increases fundamental understanding of elementary surface reactions and may lead to improvements and new applications in heterogeneous catalysis
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Give your research the benefit of the unique and state-of-the-art equipment and leading experts associated with EMSL. Researchers may use EMSL's resources at no cost if results are shared in the open literature.

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