Lee Yuan-tse, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who is president of the Academia Sinica, carried out experiments at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where he used the light beams produced by synchrotron radiation to study reactive encounters between molecules, hoping to find methods to improve air quality and energy efficiency.
諾貝爾化學獎得主、中央研究院院長李遠哲，也曾在美國柏克萊大學的先進光源實驗室主持一項研究，利用同步輻射光束線，探尋氣體分子的反應過程，以期能尋找到改善空氣品質和能源使用效率的方法。