Prof. Sirirurg Songsivilai, Executive Director of NANOTEC led a research team to visit RIKEN SPring-8 and SACLA facility at Hyogo Perfecture, Japan on Jan 26. Dr. Tetsuya Ishikawa, Director of RIKEN SPring-8 Center met with the Thai delegation to reinforce human resource development between the two agencies. SPring-8 is Japan’s Flagship Synchrotron Radiation Facility and SACLA is the world’s 2nd X-Ray Free Electron Laser. Both facilities are accelerator-based light sources which emit intensive X-rays.