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Activity Report 2017

NSRRC Activity Report 2017

Table of Contents

Message from the Director

Preface

Research Highlights

Physics and Materials Science

-	Stradivari's Secret

-	Resonant Inelastic Excitations Lead the Way

-	It's All About the Ending

-	Now You See It

-	Novel Route to Effective Doping at Heterostructure Interfaces

-	Correlations and Dynamics of Spins in An Xy-Like Spin-Glass (Ni_0.4Mn_0.6)TiO₃ Single Crystal System

-	Orbital Anisotropy Drives the Charge-Density Wave Transition in SrFeO_3-d

Chemical Science

-	Nanodiamonds Dispersed in Space

-	Formation of Wannier-Mott Excitons in Solid Carbon Oxide

-	Ultra-Bright Near-IR OLED

-	Future Porous Materials: A Highly Flexible Inorganic Framework

-	Plasmon-Induced Suppression Of Hydrogen Peroxide Formation In Oxygen Reduction Reaction

-	Photo-Enhanced Ferromagnetism in K-Ni-Cr Prussian Blue Analogues

Soft Matter

-	In-Situ Probing Nanostructural Evolution During Spin-Coating

-	Calligraphic Thin-Film Transistors

-	Handedness of Twisted Lamella in Banded Spherulite

-	Self-Assembly of Macromolecules in Nano-sized Pores

-	“I WILL BE BACK!－THE RETURN OF RUBBER:” A New Mechanism to Overcome the Dilemma of Shape Fixing and Recovery in Biodegradable Polyurethane Elastomer

Life Science

-	NlpI-Prc System in Escherichia coli (E. coli): A New Target for the Development of the Antibacterial Agents

-	RNase R: A Proficient Enzyme Involved in RNA Decay

-	Preserved Collagen in An Early Jurassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs

-	FIN219-FIP1: Two Vital Proteins Involved in Crosstalk Between FR Light Signaling and JA Response

-	Producing Irreversible Topoisomerase II-Mediated DNA Breaks

-	Parity-Dependent Slippage of DNA Hairpins for Disease-Associated Repeat Expansion

Energy Science

-	Phosphorus Doping Enlarges Hydrogen Evolution

-	Voltammetric Enhancement of Li-Ion Conduction in Al-doped Li_7-xLa₃Zr₂O₁₂ Solid Electrolyte

-	Molecular Design Drives Solar–Hydrogen Conversion

-	Probing Structural Evolution of Battery with X-rays

-	Fluoride Phosphors Illuminates White LED

-	Dual Doping Strengthen Metal-Support Interactions

Facility Status

	Status of TLS and TPS Accelerators

	The Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems at NSRRC

	The TPS Post-Mortem System

	X-ray Nanoprobe Investigation Toward the Nano-World

	Development of Soft-X-ray Tomography for Biomedical Research

	The Installation of the Instrument for Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

	A Projection and Transmission X-ray Microscope

	Time and Spatially Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Beamine at TPS

	Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at TPS

	SIKA: Opportunities for Low-Energy Excitations Using Neutrons

Facts & Figures

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