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Activity Report 2018

NSRRC Activity Report 2018

Table of Contents

Message from the Director

Preface

Research Highlights

Physics and Materials Science

-	Beyond Moore’s Law: A Non-Volatile Atomic Thin pn Diode

-	Toward Next-Generation Electronic Devices

-	The Enigmatic Metal-Insulator Transition in Titanium Sesquioxide Ti2O3

-	Dynamic Ferrimagnetism in a Double Perovskite

-	An Unusual Charge Disproportionation Transition in a High-Valence Perovskite Ferrite Sr0.5Bi0.5FeO3

-	Highlight from the Cold Neutron Triple Axis Spectrometer SIKA in 2018

Chemical Science

-	Controlling Local Structures of Activated Ions to Improve Red and Blue Phosphors in a LED Device

-	Inverse-Coordination Clusters from a Two-Electron Superatomic Copper Nanocluster

-	Luminescent Tin-Halide Perovskite Materials

-	A New Series of Tin-Based Perovskite Materials

Soft Matter

-	Ultra-Bright Perovskite Nanocrystals from Novel Spray Synthesis

-	Human-Made Photonic Crystals Superior to Butterfly’s Wings

-	Adsorption of Lipid A by Nanogold Clusters Counteracts Endotoxin-Induced Sepsis

-	Effect of Calcium Adsorption on the Properties of Phospholipid Bilayers

Life Science

-	Synchrotron-Based Protein Crystallography at NSRRC Provides Opportunities in Precision Medicine

-	Electron and Proton Transports in quinol:fumarate Reductase Provide Energy for Bacteria

-	Asgard Profilin/Rabbit Actin Complex Provides New Clues to Understand Archaea-to-Eukaryote Transition

-	ZHD: A ZEN-Hydrolyzing Enzyme for Detoxification

-	AmbP3: A Proficient Enzyme Involved in the Normal and Reverse Prenylation of Hapalindoles

Energy Science

-	Uncovering the Catalytically Active Site with X-rays

-	Unraveling Geometrical Site Confinement in Iron-Doped Electrocatalysts Toward Water Oxidation

-	A Functional Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Revived Li−S Batteries

-	Al Batteries Activated at Low Temperature

-	Rapid Reconstruction of Amorphous Nanofilms for Bifunctional Electrocatalysts

-	Neutrons See the Mechanism of an Energy Material Without Destroying the Component

Environmental and Earth Science

-	Rethinking Anaerobic Arsenic(III) Oxidation

-	Evolving O2 (OER) Cleans Waste Water

-	The Earth’s Polarity Can Flip Within Hundred Years

-	Synchrotron-Based FTIR Microspectroscopy Promises a Non-Destructive Measurement In Situ of Organic Carbon in Soil to Solve an Environmental Problem

Facility Status

	Status of TLS and TPS Accelerators

	The TPS Digital Low-Level Radio Frequency System

	NSRRC High Brightness Photo-Injector System and Light Source Development

	Operation of the TLS Booster Synchrotron in Energy Savings Mode

	Implementing IGBT Kicker Pulser and Full-Sine Septum Pulser to Improve the TPS Beam Injection

	High-Resolution X-ray Imaging for Brains

	Frontier TPS 13A Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering Beamline

	High Resolution Powder X-ray Diffraction

	Soft X-ray Tomography at TPS

	Quick-Scanning X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Beamline at TPS

Facts & Figures

Appendix