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Name： 羅夢凡 ( Meng Fan Luo )
EXT.： 8311
E-mail： mfl28@nsrrc.org.tw
Education：
  • PhD in physics, University of Cambridge, UK (2000)
  • BSc in physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (1993)
Experience：
  • Director General, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan (8. 2026 ~ present)
  • Executive Director, Office of Higher Education Sprout Project, National Central University, Taiwan (2. 2025 ~7.2026)
  • Vice President, Office of R & D, National Central University, Taiwan (2. 2025 ~ 1. 2026)
  • Co-Executive Secretary, The Program of Science and Technology to Promote Net Zero Carbon Emissions, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (5. 2023 ~ 7. 2024)
  • Director General, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (8. 2022 ~ 7. 2024) 
  • Board Member, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan (3. 2021 ~ 7.2026)
  • Director General, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (8. 2020 ~ 7. 2022)  
  • President, The Physical Society of Taiwan (2. 2020 ~ 1. 2022) 
  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (1. 2020 ~ present)  
  • Council Member, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies (11. 2019 ~ 10. 2025) 
  • Coordinator for Physics Program, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (1. 2019 ~ 7. 2020) 
  • Vice President and Director of Division of Academy, The Physical Society of Taiwan (1. 2018 ~ 2. 2020) 
  • Visiting Scholar, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany (1. 2017 ~ 7. 2017) 
  • Coordinator for TCECM Program, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (8. 2016 ~ 7. 2020) 
  • Department Chairman, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (8. 2013 ~ 7. 2016)   
  • Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (8. 2010 ~ present) 
  • Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (8. 2006 ~ 7. 2010) 
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (8. 2002 ~ 7. 2006) 
  • Postdoctorate Research Associate, Institute of Surface and Interface Science and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, US (10. 2000 ~ 8. 2002) 
  • Research Assistant, Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre (SRRC), Taiwan (6. 1995 ~ 6. 1996) 
Research Interests：
  • Surface Science, Nano Science and Trans-Disciplinary Research
Selected Publications：
  • Jing-Wen Hsueh, Lai-Hsiang Kuo, Wan-Hsin Chen, Chi-Yao Chuang, Chun-Hao Liu, Naoya Kawakami, Po-Han Chen, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin-Shan Lue, Bo-Hong Liu, Chia-Hsin Wang, Jyh-Pin Chou, Chun-Liang Lin and Meng-Fan Luo, “Engineering Surface Defects on Layered PtTe2 and PdTe2 with Reacting Methanol”, 2D Materials 13 (2026) 015002.
  • Yi-Lin Li, Tzu-Yu Liu, Guan-Chen Liu, Yu-Yao Hsia, Yu-Ling Lai, Hung-Wei Shiu, Yao-Jane Hsu, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Surface Structures of Au and Rh deposited on O-pre-adsorbed Cu(110)”, J. Chem. Phys. 163 (2025) 024705.
  • Jing-Wen Hsueh, Lai-Hsiang Kuo, Po-Han Chen, Wan-Hsin Chen, Chi-Yao Chuang, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin-Shan Lue, Hung-Wei Shiu, Bo-Hong Liu, Chia-Hsin Wang, Yao-Jane Hsu, Chun-Liang Lin, Jyh-Pin Chou and Meng-Fan Luo, “Decomposition of Methanol Activated by Surface Under-coordinated Pd on Layered PdTe2”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 27 (2025) 9336–9349. (selected as the front cover)
  • Yu-Yao Hsia, Tzu-Yu Liu, Yu-Ling Lai, Yao-Jane Hsu, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Dependence on Size of Supported Rh Nanoclusters in the Decomposition of Ethanol”, J. Phys. Chem. C 129 (2025) 2502 − 2511.
  • Guan-Jr Liao, Wen-Hao Hsueh, Yu-Hsiang Yen, Yi-Chan Shih, Chia-Hsin Wang, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Decomposition of Methanol-d4 on Rh nanoclusters supported by thin film Al2O3/NiAl(100) under near-ambient-pressure conditions”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 26 (2024) 5059 - 5069.
  • Jing-Wen Hsueh, Lai-Hsiang Kuo, Po-Han Chen, Wan-Hsin Chen, Chi-Yao Chuang, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin-Shan Lue, Yu-Ling Lai, Bo-Hong Liu, Chia-Hsin Wang, Yao-Jane Hsu, Chun-Liang Lin, Jyh-Pin Chou and Meng-Fan Luo, “Investigating the Role of Undercoordinated Pt Sites at the Surface of Layered PtTe2 for Methanol Decomposition”, Nature Communications 15 (2024) 653.
  • Guan-Jr Liao, Wen-Hao Hsueh, Yu-Hsiang Yen, Yi-Chan Shih, Chia-Hsin Wang, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Decomposition of Methanol-d4 on a thin film of Al2O3/NiAl(100) under near-ambient-pressure conditions”, J. Chem. Phys. 158 (2023) 174707.
  • Wan-Hsin Chen, Naoya Kawakami, Jing-Wen Hsueh, Lai-Hsiang Kuo, Jiun-Yu Chen, Ting-Wei Liao, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin-Shan Lue, Yu-Ling Lai, Yao-Jane Hsu, Der-Hsien Lien, Chenming Hu, Jyh-Pin Chou, Meng-Fan Luo, and Chun-Liang Lin, “Toward Perfect Surfaces of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Ion Bombardment and Annealing Treatment”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (2023)16153-16161.
  • Yu-Cheng Wu, A. S. Ansari, Dipak Dutta, Kai-Jen Hsiao, Lu-Hsin Lee, Yu-Ling Lai, Yao-Jane Hsu, Ting-Wei Liao, Jyh-Pin Chou and Meng-Fan Luo, “Catalyzed Decomposition of Methanol-d4 on Vanadium Nanoclusters Supported on an Ultra-Thin Film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 126 (2022) 3903−3914.
  • Yi-Cheng Huang, Hung-Yu Yen, Liang-Wei Lan, D. Dutta, A. Rahmah, Yu-Ling Lai, Yao-Jane Hsu, Chien-Cheng Kuo, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Dissociation of water on atomic oxygen-covered Rh nanoclusters supported on graphene/Ru(0001)”, J. Chem. Phys. 155 (2021) 074701.
  • Guan-Jr Liao, Kuan-Ting Liu, Zhen-He Liao, Po-Wei Hsu, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Dependence on Size of Supported Rh Nanoclusters in the Dehydrogenation of Methanol-d4 Obstructed by CO”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 (2021) 2622−2629.
  • Yu-Yao Hsia, Po-Cheng Chien, Lu-Hsin Lee, Yu-Ling Lai, Li-Chung Yu, Yao-Jane Hsu, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Dependence on co-adsorbed water in the reforming reaction of ethanol on Rh(111) surface”, RSC Advances 10 (2020) 17787–17794.
  • A. S. Ansari, Zhao-Ying Chern, Pei-Yang Cai, Yen-Wen Huang, Guan-Jr Liao, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Distinct dependence on size of Pt and Rh nanoclusters on graphene/Pt(111) in the decomposition of methanol-d4”, J. Chem. Phys. 150 (2019) 224707. (selected as featured, Scilight and also 2019 Editors’ choice)
  • Y.-Y. Hsia, Y.-C. Huang, H.-S. Zheng, Y.-L. Lai, Y.-J. Hsu, M.-F. Luo, and J.-H. Wang, “The Effects of O2 and H2O in the Oxidative Steam-Reforming Reaction of Ethanol on Rh Catalysts”, J. Phys. Chem. C 123 (2019) 11649−11661.
  • Pei-Yang Cai, Yen-Wen Huang, Yi-Cheng Huang, Meng-Chin Cheng, Liang-Wei Lan, Chien-Cheng Kuo, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Atomic Structures of Pt Nanoclusters Supported on Graphene Grown on Pt(111)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (2018) 16132−16141.
  • Hsuan Lee, Zhen-He Liao, Po-Wei Hsu, Yu-Cheng Wu, Meng-Chin Cheng, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Decomposition of methanol-d4 on Au–Rh bimetallic nanoclusters on a thin film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20 (2018) 11260-11272.
  • Hsuan Lee, Zhen-He Liao, Po-Wei Hsu, Ting-Chieh Hung, Yu-Cheng Wu, Yuwei Lin, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Surface structures and compositions of Au-Rh bimetallic nanoclusters supported on thin-film Al2O3/NiAl(100) probed with CO”, Journal of Chem. Phys. 147 (2017) 044704.
  • Ting-Chieh Hung, Ting-Wei Liao, Zhen-He Liao, Po-Wei Hsu, Pei-Yang Cai, Hsuan Lee, Yu-Ling Lai, Yao-Jane Hsu, Hui-Yu Chen, Jeng-Han Wang and Meng-Fan Luo, “Dependence on Size of Supported Rh Nanoclusters in the Decomposition of Methanol”, ACS Catalysis 5 (2015) 4276-4287.
  • C.-S. Chao, T.-W. Liao, C. X. Wang, Y.-D. Li, T.-C. Hung, M.-F. Luo, “Obstruction by CO of the decomposition of methanol on Pt nanoclusters on a thin film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 293 (2014) 352-358.
  • Chen-Sheng Chao, Yu-Da Li, Bo-Wei Hsu, Won-Ru Lin, Hsin-Chung Hsu, Ting-Chieh Hung, Chao-Chuan Wang, Meng-Fan Luo, “Two-Channel Decomposition of Methanol on Pt Nanoclusters Supported on a Thin Film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 117 (2013) 5667-5677.
  • C. W. Lin, C. T. Wang, M. F. Luo, “Fabrication of nanoscale alumina on NiAl(100) with a scanning tunneling microscope”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 264 (2013) 280-285.
  • G. R. Hu, C. S. Chao, H. W. Shiu, C. T. Wang, W. R. Lin, Y. J. Hsu and M. F. Luo, “Low-temperature decomposition of methanol on Au nanoclusters supported on a thin film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13 (2011) 3281-3290.
  • M. F. Luo, C. C. Wang, G. R. Hu, W. R. Lin, C. Y. Ho, Y. C. Lin and Y. J. Hsu, “Active alloying of Au with Pt in nanoclusters supported on a thin film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 113 (2009) 21054-21062.
  • M. F. Luo, M. H. Ten, C. C. Wang, W. R. Lin, C. Y. Ho, B. W. Chang, C. T. Wang, Y. C. Lin and Y. J. Hsu, “Temperature-dependent oxidation of Pt nanoclusters on a thin film of Al2O3 on NiAl(100)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 113 (2009) 12419-12426.
  • M.F. Luo, W.R. Lin, W.H. Wen, B.W. Chang, “Methanol electro-oxidation and induced sintering on Pt nanoclusters supported on thin-film Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, Surf. Sci. 602 (2008) 3258-3265.
  • S.D. Sartale, H.W. Shiu, M.H. Tien, C.I. Chiang, M.F. Luo, Y.C. Lin and Y.J. Hsu, “Adsorption and decomposition of methanol on Au nanoclusters supported on a thin-film of Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 112 (2008) 2066-2073.
  • P. Chen, T.Y. Wang and M.F. Luo, “A statistical simulation approach for early stage thin-film growth from vapor-deposited atoms”, J. Chem. Phys 127 (2007) 144714.
  • S.D. Sartale, K.L. Lin, C.I. Chiang, M.F. Luo and C.C. Kuo, “Engineering patterns of Co nanoclusters on thin film Al2O3/NiAl(100) using STM manipulation techniques”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 (2006) 063118.
  • M.F. Luo, Y.L. Yeh, P.L. Chen, C.-H. Nien and Y.W. Hsueh, “An AFM study of thermal behaviour of phospholipid monolayers on mica”, J. Chem. Phys. 124 (2006) 194702.
  • M.F. Luo, C.I. Chiang, H.W. Shiu, S.D. Sartale, and C.C. Kuo, “Patterning Co nanoclusters on thin film Al2O3/NiAl(100)”, Nanotechnol. 17 (2006) 360-366.
  • M.F. Luo, D.A. MacLaren, and W. Allison, “Migration and abstraction of H-atoms from the Cu(111) surface “, Surf. Sci. 586 (2005) 109-114.
  • M.F. Luo, Z.Y. Li and W. Allison, “The understanding of Electronic Excitations of C60 on Graphite Surfaces”, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 16 (2004) 6257-6265.
  • M.F. Luo, D.A. MacLaren, I.G. Shuttleworth and W. Allison, “Preferential sub-surface occupation of atomic hydrogen on Cu(111)”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 381/5-6 (2003) 654-659.