Liang, who has carried out research using several American synchrotron accelerators, cites his experiences at Stanford. In addition to physicists, researchers in fields such as chemistry, biology, materials science and medicine were all interested in exploring how synchrotron radiation could help them and borrowed the accelerator for their own purposes.
曾在美國數個同步輻射加速器實驗室工作過的他，舉史丹福大學的實驗室為例，當時他們除了發現同步輻射光在物理研究上的價值之外，其他學科的研究人員，如化學、生物、材料、醫學等，也同時發現同步輻射對他們的幫助，而紛紛前來借用。