Experts metaphorically, with the support of the large scientific facility Shanghai Light Source, scientists have moved from looking at the microscopic world under “moonlight” to looking at the microscopic world under “sunlight”. This has great significance for promoting basic scientific research and attracting first-class scientific research teams at home and abroad.
In the past 8 years of operation, with the help of the light emitted by Shanghai Light Source, Bao Xinhe, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, made a major breakthrough in the research on the direct conversion and utilization of natural gas in 2014, and was selected as the “Top Ten Scientific Progress” of the year. The research team of Yan Ning from the School of Medicine of Tsinghua University has measured the three-dimensional crystal structure of human-derived glucose transporters for the first time. The Gaofu team of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the infection mechanism of various epidemic viruses such as bird flu and Ebola The team discovered Waier Fermion …
As shown by the fruits, the super laser pointer gave scientists a pair of smart eyes. “In terms of structural biology, it may take several years for a single research group to analyze a protein structure. After the Shanghai light source was built, the average analysis time dropped to several months or even days. At present, researchers use the Shanghai light source to analyze one year The number of protein structures is the sum of previous decades. “Any Jianhua, deputy director of Shanghai Light Source Center, said.
Build a “nest” to attract the phoenix and build an open and shared scientific research ecosystem. With the continuous improvement of hardware facilities, Shanghai Light Source has built a “nest” and attracted “phoenix” in various frontier disciplines such as structural biology, catalysis, condensed matter physics, and material science. An open and shared scientific research ecosystem is gradually Towards maturity.
Shanghai Light Source is open to users at home and abroad. Young scholars who are fledgling can use large scientific facilities as long as they apply through the project. Except for a small number of enterprises, more than 90% of users are free to use. In order to ensure fairness to each subject, Shanghai Light Source has designed a set of system regulations that “users apply and user experts approve”. Each user expert working group is composed of about 10 first-line experts from different regions and different types of units and related to the subject of the line station. It is responsible for the subject review, subject direction consultation and operation status supervision of the station. Tsinghua University professor Shi Yigong and other famous scientists are members of the user expert working group.
In addition to fairness, efficiency must also be taken into account. For this reason, the red laser pointer light source specifically sets aside some time to reward researchers who have achieved outstanding results in order to maximize the output rate of the device. Like the research results, all these reproducible and expandable experiences accumulated in open sharing will become valuable assets for promoting technological innovation. It is foreseeable that in the future, “Optical Valley” will consolidate global forces and truly turn this hot spot into a technological innovation center with international influence.