Multidisciplinary Research Platform

Abstract

Nowadays, synchrotron radiation (SR) light sources are the most widely operated large scientific facilities in the world. Due to their outstanding features, such as continuous and broad frequency spectrum, highly collimated emission, high intensity and brilliance, polarization, time structure, high vacuum conditions and the almost unique possibility to calculate precisely the spectral emission at all wavelengths, as high-level multidisciplinary experiment platforms, the essential roles they play in the modern scientific and technological development are universally acknowledged by the scientific community, the society as well as the governments of all countries. Experimental researches based on synchrotron radiation technology involve many disciplines and a large number of applications. In addition, the synchrotron-radiation-based technologies have become indispensable tools in many frontier disciplines. For instance, the biological macromolecular structures are mainly solved by the synchrotron-radiation-based technologies. And the synchrotron radiation research in this regard is one of the fields in which the application of synchrotron radiation technology has developed most quickly and achieved most important results. Some Nobel Chemistry Prize winners have all greatly benefited from synchrotron radiation researches. Actually, synchrotron radiation light source has played an increasingly important role in many scientific disciplines, such as life sciences, physics, chemistry, materials science, information and technology, energy and environmental science as well as advanced manufacturing technology represented by microelectronics machining, and become a prerequisite for almost any future breakthrough in major theories and technologies.