National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

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Activity Report 2014

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Table of Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR (433KB)

PREFACE (1.98MB)

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS (5.08MB)

Physics and Chemistry

-	Soft is Good, but Beware the Interfaces

-	Expecting the Realization of a Spintronic Semiconductor

-	How Does the Incorporation of Sn Affect the Structure of a Ge Matrix?

-	New Features in the Doped Cuprate Phase Diagram

-	Absence of Ferroelectricity in SmFeO₃

-	Is IrO₂ Goodenough? An insight into electronic structure via HAXPES

-	How Does a Firefly Flash?

-	A Porous Organic Framework Captures Greenhouse Gases

-	Discovering the Mysteries of Chemical Reactions

-	Modeling Photochemistry on Saturn’s Largest Moon

Soft Matter

-	Ultrahigh-Density Hot Spots of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

-	How Can Sugar Connect with Electrical Memory?

-	Characteristic Morphologies of Conjugated Polymers for Photovoltaic Cells

Life Science

-	Bacterial Diterpene Synthases: A Tale of Two Conserved Domains

-	Developing Novel Antibiotics to Kill Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

-	New Directions for Therapeutic Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

-	Resolving the Phase Ambiguity of Single-Wavelength Anomalous Dispersion

-	Crowning Proteins: Modulating the Protein Properties using Crown Ethers

Energy Science

-	Interfacial Effects Improve Catalytic Oxidation

-	Vanadium Powers the Lithium-Ion Battery

-	Nanosheets Deliver Great Power Density

FACILITY STATUS (5.89MB)

	Accelerator Availability and Reliability (299KB)

	The Story of Commissioning the TPS (1.26MB)

	Construction of Phase-I Insertion Devices at TPS (1.21MB)

	Status of the TPS Phase-I Beamlines (377KB)

	Plan of Beamlines in Phase II at Taiwan Photon Source (502KB)

	Synchrotron Virtual Laboratory for the Semiconductor Industry (581KB)

	Combustion Research: A Leap Forward in the Diagnostics of Combustion (1.12MB)

FACTS & FIGURES (7.74MB)

APPENDIX (2.67MB)