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Activity Report 2016

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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

PREFACE

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Physics and Materials Science

-	Solar Cells Using a Multiferroic Oxide and a Transparent Conducting Oxide

-	Catching the Elusive Paramagnons: Collective Spin Excitations in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

-	Golden Protection for a Ru-Pt Nanocatalyst

-	Working with an Invisible Order

-	Contacts under the Sun

-	Highly Efficient n-Type Doping and Band Renormalization in Ti-Adsorbed Graphene

Chemical Science

-	Probing the Evolution of Cosmic Dust with X-rays

-	Diagnosis of Skin Cancer with Synchrotron IR Microspectroscopy

-	The Color-Reversal Effect in Phosphors of WLED

-	Plasmon-Enhanced Catalysis: Design of Nanocatalysts with a Combination of Catalytic and Plasmonic Metals

Soft Matter

-	Generating Digital Signals from Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers

-	Packing Principles for Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Molecules

-	Elucidating the DNA-Histone Interaction in a Nucleosome from the DNA-Dendrimer Complex

-	Revisiting the Correlation between Elastic Mechanics and the Fusion of Lipid Membranes

-	Designing a Starch-Based Active Coating with a pH-Responsive Property

Life Science

-	Crenomytilus grayanus Lectin, CGL, Could Be Developed into a Potential Biosensor for Cancer Diagnosis

-	MshE: An Important Cyclic di-GMP Receptor and Its Involvement in Formation of a Biofilm of Vibrio cholerae

-	MoeN5: An Important Prenyltransferase Involved in Moenomycin Biosynthesis

-	How the Fidelity of DNA Repair Is Modulated in Human Beings

-	Role of Dimeric Endonuclease G in DNA Degradation

-	Molecular Averaging Is Powerful for Crystal Structures

Energy Science

-	Energy of the Future - Hydrogen

-	Imaging Battery Fading

-	An Additive Opens New Visions in Solar Cells

-	Peering Deep Inside an Electrocatalyst

FACILITY STATUS

	Status of the TLS Accelerator

	Experience in the Operation of Taiwan Photon Source

	Investigation of Vacuum Properties of CuCrZr Alloy Used as High-Heat-Load Absorber

	Soft X-ray Coherent Diffraction Imaging

	Development of a Beamline for Coherent X-ray Scattering

	Resonant Inelastic Soft X-ray Scattering

	High-Resolution Powder X-ray Diffraction

	A Scanning Laue X-ray Diffraction Microscope

	X-ray Pump-Probe Technique

	The Plan of TPS Phase-II Beamlines

FACTS & FIGURES

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