Editor’s Note Editorial Board Seishi Kikuta (Chief Editor) SPring-8 / J ASRI T etsuya Ishikawa SPring-8 / RIKEN Ä J ASRI Noritaka K umagai SPring-8 / J ASRI W ataru Matsumoto SPring-8 / J ASRI Osamu Shimomura SPring-8 / J AERI Y oshitsugu Shir o SPring-8 / RIKEN Hiro yoshi Suematsu SPring-8 / J ASRI T atzuo Ueki SPring-8 / J ASRI SP ri ng -8 Re se ar ch Fr on ti er s de sc ri be s th e ou ts ta nd in g sc ie nt if ic ac hi e v em en ts pr od uc ed at SPring-8 beamlines: public beamlines including R&D beamlines, contract beamlines, J AERI / RIKEN beamlines and an accelerator diagnosis beamline. This f ifth issue “2001B/2002A” co v ers adv ances made during the tw o consecuti v e research terms, the second half of 2001 and the f irst half of 2002. The number of papers published based on the research results obtained at SPring-8 has increased steadily e v ery year . As the number of publications increased, the number of e xcellent papers also increased. Among the e xcellent results, 42 results are selected and cate gorized into se v en research disciplines with one e xception to be reported in this issue: the e xception is about nuclear physics, which w as obtained using -rays generated by in v erse Compton scattering. We invited seven specialists from the Proposal Review Committee to serve as the Editing Coordinators for their respecti v e research f ields: Life Science : Professor Masaru Tanokura (The Uni v ersity of T o k yo) Materials Science : Professor Satoshi Sasaki (T ok yo Institute of T echnology) Chemical Science : Professor Inosuke Koyano (Himeji Institute of T echnology) Earth & Planetary Science : Professor Tetsuo lrifune (Ehime Uni v ersity) En vironmental Science : Professor Iwao Watanabe (Osaka W omen’ s Uni v ersity) Industrial Application : Professor Tokuhiko Okamoto (Ritsumeikan Uni v ersity) Instrumentation & Methodology : P rofessor M akoto Wa tanabe (T ohoku Uni v ersity) W e w o u l d lik e to e x p res s our mos t sin cer e app rec iat ion to the Edi tin g Coo rdi nat ors for the ir ef forts in preparing the introductory o v ervie ws and pro viding comments on each research f ield. W e w ould also lik e to e xpress our gratitude to users and f acility members of SPring-8 for contrib uting their reports to the SPring-8 Research Frontiers. SP ri ng -8 Re se ar ch Fr on ti er s wi ll be se nt on re qu es t. It s fu ll te xt is al so a v ai la bl e on th e SP ri ng -8 W eb site ( http://www .spring8.or .jp / )
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