NSRRC Activity Report 2022

Message from the Director Preface Research Highlights Physics and Materials Science 009 Photonic-Crafting of Non-Volatile and Rewritable Antiferromagnetic Spin Textures 011 Weaving Single-Crystal Thin Films 013 CaCu 3 Ru 4 O 12 : An Unusually High-Kondo-Temperature Transition-Metal Oxide 015 High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Electronics 017 A Simple and Efficient Method for Hydrogen Spillover and Storage 019 Spatially Resolved Patterned Doping in Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Chemical Science 023 Utilizing CO 2 in an Energy Storage System 024 Adding a Protective Layer for Aqueous Zinc Ion Capacitors 027 Highly Efficent and Stable Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells 028 Orientational Control of Artificial Water Channels by Water-Induced Self-Assembly 030 Stabilization of Lead-Reduced Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Through High-Entropy Alloying Soft Matter 034 Sponge-Like Cryogels 036 Skin Tactile Sensor / Electronic Skin 038 Polytherapy to Combat Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria 040 Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System Table of Contents Life Science 043 Humans’ Oldest Jawed Ancestor 045 Fighting Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Mono-GlcNAc-Decorated Spike Vaccine Can Help 047 How Binding of CDN to STING Reduces Phage Propagation in Bacteria 049 Structural Analysis and Engineering of Aldo-Keto Reductase from Glyphosate-Resistant Echinochloa colona 051 Structural Basis Underlying the Catalytic Mechanism of Deoxypodophyllotoxin Synthase 053 Applications of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering in Protein Folding Studies Energy Science 057 Modulating the Voltage Decay and Cationic Redox Kinetics of Li-Rich Cathodes 059 Charge–Discharge Mechanism of High-Entropy Co-Free Spinel Oxide in Li-ion Batteries 061 Uncovering Catalyst Synergies 065 Functional Nanoglues for Robust Atomically Dispersed Catalysts