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Activity Report 2012

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Table of Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

PREFACE

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Physics and Chemistry of Materials

-	A New Way to Explore 4f-Orbital Orientation in a Heavy Fermion System

-	Behind the Switching Mechanism in Resistive Memory

-	Let the True Colors Shine Through

-	Reducing Carbon Monoxide Contamination in a H₂ Source

Molecular Science

-	New Scheme for Interstellar Chemistry

-	Discovering the Imperfection in Diamonds

Soft Matter

-	Transfer of Chirality in Self-Assembled Chiral Block Copolymers

-	Self-Assembly Nanostructures in Biomimetic Polymeric Materials

-	Lipids Influence the Size-Selective Permeability of Copolymer Vesicles

-	GET Topology to Target Tail-Anchored Proteins

Life Science

-	Pumping Protons against Gradients into a Plant Vacuole

-	Stop Building a Cell Wall

-	The First Step in a Synthesis of Antibiotic Moenomycin

-	Starve Cancer Cells by Cutting the Food Supply

-	To Cut or Not to Cut?

Energy Science

-	Generating Power from Vitamin B12

-	Structure and Device Performance in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

FACILITY STATUS

	Operational Performance of TLS

	EUV Lithography Activities

	Accelerator Design and Construction Progress of TPS Project

	Progress of Design and Construction of Phase-I Beamlines at TPS

FACTS & FIGURES

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