Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

About: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory is a facility organization based out in Richland, Washington, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Mass spectrometry & Ion. The organization has 1471 authors who have published 3010 publications receiving 169961 citations.

Controlling the morphology of amorphous solid water

Abstract: The morphology of amorphous solid water grown by vapor deposition was found to depend strongly on the angular distribution of the water molecules incident from the gas phase. Systematic variation of the incident angle during deposition using a collimated beam of water led to the growth of nonporous to highly porous amorphous solid water. The physical and chemical properties of amorphous solid water are of interest because of its presence in astrophysical environments. The ability to control its properties in the laboratory may shed light on some of the outstanding conflicts related to this important material.

Direct in Situ Determination of the Mechanisms Controlling Nanoparticle Nucleation and Growth

Abstract: Although nanocrystal morphology is controllable using conventional colloidal synthesis, multiple characterization techniques are typically needed to determine key properties like the nucleation rate, induction time, growth rate, and the resulting morphology. Recently, researchers have demonstrated growth of nanocrystals by in situ electron beam reduction, offering direct observations of single nanocrystals and eliminating the need for multiple characterization techniques; however, they found nanocrystal morphologies consistent with two different growth mechanisms for the same electron beam parameters. Here we show that the electron beam current plays a role analogous to the concentration of reducing agent in conventional synthesis, by controlling the growth mechanism and final morphology of silver nanocrystals grown via in situ electron beam reduction. We demonstrate that low beam currents encourage reaction limited growth that yield nanocrystals with faceted structures, while higher beam currents encoura...

Dynamic formation of single-atom catalytic active sites on ceria-supported gold nanoparticles

Abstract: Computational investigation of heterogeneous catalytic systems is fundamentally important. Here, the authors show that, under reaction conditions, reactant-induced structural changes in ceria-supported gold nanoparticle catalysts lead to the dynamic formation of single-atom catalytic sites at the interface.

Experimental Investigation of the Interaction of Water and Methanol with Anatase−TiO2(101)

Abstract: The interaction of water and methanol with well-defined (1 × 1) terminated surfaces of anatase-TiO2(101) were investigated with temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). For water, three desorption states were observed in the TPD spectra at 160, 190, and 250 K. The three desorption peaks were assigned to multilayer water, water adsorbed to 2-fold-coordinated O, and water adsorbed to 5-fold-coordinated Ti, respectively. The TPD spectra for methanol were more complicated. For methanol, five desorption peaks were observed in the TPD spectra at 135, 170, 260, 410, and 610 K. The five desorption peaks were assigned to multilayer methanol, methanol adsorbed to 2-fold-coordinated O, methanol adsorbed to 5-fold-coordinated Ti, methoxy adsorbed to 5-fold-coordinated Ti, and methoxy adsorbed to Ti at step edges, respectively. The XPS results indicated that the adsorbed water and methanol were predominantly bound to the surface in a molecular state, with no evidence for diss...