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Activity Report 2015

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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

PREFACE

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Physics and Materials Science

-	A Mixed Pseudocapacitor-Battery Electrode with High Capacity and High Rate Character

-	The Scaring Strontium in a LED

-	Towards Atomically Thick LEGO

-	How the Structure of Metallic or Bimetallic Nanocatalysts Affects the Reactivity of a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

-	Magnetic Mesocrystals of New Types

-	Itinerant Hole Carriers Mediate Local Magnetic Moments

-	New Features of Topological Insulators from Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy

-	Mott Insulating S = 1 Magnet in Quasi-One-Dimensional Vanadium Sublattice

-	Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal

-	Interlayer Coupling Affects the Growth of 2D Stripe Orders

Molecular Science

-	Defeating Air Pollution: Unraveling the Pathogenic Mechanism of PM2.5

-	Synthesis of a New Structure B₂H₄ from B₂H₆

-	Highly Selective Dissociation of Peptide Bonds

Soft Matter

-	Biomimetic of Nature: Stimulus-Responsive Structural Coloration in Polymeric Photonic Crystals

-	Charged Lipid Exchange Between Oppositely Charged Bicelles

-	Developing Piezophototronic Materials for a Lab-on-a-Chip and Wearable Electronic Systems

-	How Do Spinning Processes Affect Nano-Scale Silk Properties in Nutritiously Stressed Spiders?

Life Science

-	Insight into Bridging and Condensing DNA for Chromosome Partitioning

-	Complicated Designs of Dinosaur Teeth: Functions and Protective Mechanisms

-	How Do Pathogenic Bacteria Disable the Host Immune System in Phagocytosis?

-	Predicament of the Cultured Shrimp Industry: An Emergent Bacterial Disease Causes Substantial Economic Losses

-	Structure of the Deadly Grouper Fish Virus is Revealed

-	Discovery of a Bacterial Antigenic Loop and a New Detox Mechanism for Typhoid Treatment

-	Klebsiella pneumoniae Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Transcriptional Regulation by Response Regulator PmrA

Energy Science

-	Cobalt Activates Oxygen Evolution

-	Iron Titanate Kicks Off the Photogenerated Hole

-	Zoom in the Perovskite Solar Cell with X-ray Scattering

FACILITY STATUS

	Status of Taiwan Light Source

	Taiwan Photon Source Towards User Operation

	NEG Coating on Various UHV Chamber Materials

	Insertion Devices in the First Year at Taiwan Photon Source

	Construction and Commissioning of TPS Phase-I Beamlines

	Beamline Plan in Phases II and III at Taiwan Photon Source

FACTS & FIGURES

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