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Research Papers

(* indicate postdocs and graduate students; ** indicate undergraduate and high school students)

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  1. *Hou, M., *Hao, M., Liu, J., Su, X., Zhou, W.-Y., Hrubiak, R., Zhang, J.S. (2022), Ultra-low seismic velocities of amorphous CaCO3 atop the subducting slabs, (submitted)

  2. *Zhou, W.-Y., Olson, P., Shearer, C., Agee, C., Townsend, J., *Hao, M., *Hou, M. and Zhang, J.S. (2022), High pressure-temperature phase equilibrium studies on Martian basalts: implications for the failure of plate tectonics on Mars, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. (accepted)

  3. *Zhou, W-Y., *Hao, M., Zhang, J.S., Chen, B., Wang, R., Schmandt, B. (2022), Constraining Composition and Temperature Variations in the Mantle Transition Zone, Nat. Commun. 13(1), 1-9, doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28709-7.

  4. *Hou, M., *Zhou, W.-Y., *Hao, M., Hua, F. T., Kung, J., Zhang, D., Dera, P. and Zhang, J.S. (2022) Effect of structural water on the elasticity of orthopyroxene, American Mineralogist, doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7843

  5. *Zhou, W-Y., Zhang, J.S.,, Huang, Q., Lai, X, Chen, B., Dera, P., Schmandt, B. (2022), High pressure-temperature single-crystal elasticity of ringwoodite: Implications for detecting the 520 discontinuity and metastable ringwoodite at depths greater than 660 km, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 579, p.117359. doi; 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117359

  6. Zhang, J. S., T. Irifune, *M. Hao, D. Zhang, Y. Hu, S. Tkachev, P. Dera, **J. Chen, Y.-B. Jiang, A. Brearley, J. D. Bass, Prakapenka, V. (2021), Grain size dependent high-pressure elastic properties of ultrafine micro/nanocrystalline grossular,  Sci. Rep. 11, 22481. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01960-6

  7. Zhang, H., Schmandt, B., Zhang, J.S. (2021) Localized anisotropy in the mantle transition zone due to flow through slab gaps, Geophys. Res. Lett. 48(10), p.e2021GL092712.doi: 10.1029/2021GL092712

  8. *Hao, M., Zhang, J.S., *Zhou, W.-Y., and Wang, Q. (2021) Seismic visibility of eclogite in the Earth’s upper mantle – implications from high pressure-temperature single-crystal elasticity of omphacite, J. Geophys. Res. 126(5), p.e2021JB021683. doi:10.1029/2021JB021683

  9. *Zhou, W.-Y., *Ren, Z., Zhang, J.S., Chen, B., *Hao, M., Ohuchi, T., Miyagi, L., Zhang, D., and Schmandt, B. (2021) The H2O-Fe#-Pressure dependent single-crystal elastic properties of wadsleyite: Implications for the seismic anisotropy in the upper Mantle Transition Zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 565, p.116955. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116955

  10. *Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., **Pierotti, C., *Zhou, W.-Y., Zhang, D., Dera, P. (2020) The seismically fastest chemical heterogeneity in the Earth’s deep upper mantle—implications from single-crystal thermal elastic properties of jadeite, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 543, p.116345. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116345

  11. Lai, X., Zhu, F., Zhang, J. S., Zhang, D., Tkachev, S., Prakapenka,V.B., Chen, B. (2020) Externally-heated diamond anvil cell for synthesis and elasticity determination of single-crystal ice at high pressure-temperature condition, J. Vis. Exp. 160, p.e61389. doi:10.3791/61389

  12. **Mans, W., Zhang, J. S., *Hao, M., Smyth, J.R., Zhang, D., Finkelstein, G., Dera, P. (2019) Hydrogen effect on the sound velocities of upper mantle omphacite, Minerals. 9, 690. doi:10.3390/min9110690

  13. Hu, Y., Kiefer, B., Plonka, A., Parise, J. B., Zhang, J. S., Manghnani., M. H., Sahu, B. N. and Dera, P. (2019), Compressional behavior of end-member and aluminous iron-bearing diopside at high pressure from single-crystal X-ray diffraction and first-principles calculations, Phys. Chem. Miner. 46 (10), 977-986. doi: 10.1007/s00269-019-01056-8

  14. *Hao, M. **Pierotti, C., Tkachev, S., Prakapenka, V. and Zhang, J. S. (2019), The single-crystal elastic properties of the jadeite-diopside solid solution and their implications for the composition-dependent seismic properties of eclogite, Mineral. 104, 1016-1021. doi: 10.2138/am-2019-6990 

  15. Zhang, J. S., *Hao, M., *Ren, Z., and Chen, B. (2019), The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure, Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 191903. doi: 10.1063/1.5096989

  16. *Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., **Pierotti, E. C., *Ren, Z., Zhang, D. (2019), High-pressure single-crystal elasticity and thermal equation of state of omphacite and their implications for the seismic properties of eclogite in the Earth’s interior., J. Geophys. Res. 124, 2368– 2377. doi: 10.1029/2018JB016964

  17. Zhang, J. S., Bass, J. D., Schmandt, B. (2018), Single-crystal elasticity change across the olivine-wadsleyite transition and its implications for the composition and dynamics near the 410 discontinuity, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 2674-2684.
    doi: 10.1002/2017JB015339.

  18. Xu, J., Zhang, D., Dera, P., Zhang, J. S., Hu, Y., Guo, X., Zhou, W., and D. Fan (2018), Phase transitions in orthoenstatite and subduction zone dynamics: effects of water and transition metal ions, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 2723-2737. doi: 10.1002/2017JB015169.

  19. Zhang, D, Dera, P., Eng, P. J., Stubbs, J. E., Zhang, J. S., Prakapenka, V. B., Rivers, M. L. (2017), High pressure single crystal diffraction at PX^2, J Vis Exp. 119, e54660. doi:  10.3791/54660

  20. Zhang, J. S., Hu. Y., Shelton, H., Kung, J. and P. Dera (2017), Single crystal X-ray diffraction study of Fe2SiO4 fayalite up to 31 GPa, Phys. Chem. Miner. 44, 171-179. doi: 10.1007/s00269-016-0846-1

  21. Zhang, J. S. and J. D. Bass (2016), Sound Velocities of Olivine at High Pressures and Temperatures and the Composition of Earth's upper mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 9611–9618. doi: 10.1002/2016GL069949

  22. Zhang, J. S. and J. D. Bass (2016), High-pressure single crystal elasticity of  natural Fe-bearing orthoenstatite across a high-pressure phase transition, Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 8473–8481. doi: 10.1002/2016GL069963

  23. Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D. and G. Zhu (2015), Single-crystal Brillouin spectroscopy with laser-heating and variable q, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 063905. doi: 10.1063/1.4922634

  24. Liu, L. and J. S. Zhang (2015), Differential contraction of subducted lithosphere layers generates deep earthquake generation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 421, 98. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.053

  25. Zhang, J. S., S. Shieh,  J. D. Bass, P. Dera and V. Prakapenka (2014), High-pressure single crystal elasticity of CO2-I up to 12GPa and evidence for CO2-I to CO2-III phase transition. Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 141901.doi:10.1063/1.4870526

  26. Wu, S., Zhu, G., Zhang, J. S., Banerjee, D., Bass, J. D., Ling, C., Yano, K (2014), Anisotropic Lattice Expansion of Threedimensional Colloidal Crystals and Its Impact on Hypersonic Phonon Band Gaps, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.16, 8921-8926. doi: 10.1039/C4CP00498A

  27. Zhang, J. S., Reynard, B., Montagnac, G, and J. D.Bass (2014), Pressure-induced Pbca-P21/c phase transition of natural orthoenstatite: high temperature effect and its geophysical implications, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 228, 150-159. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2013.09.008

  28. Zhu, G., Swinteck, N.Z., Wu, S., Zhang, J. S., Pan, H., Bass, J. D., Deymier, P. A., Banerjee, D. and K. Yano (2013), Direct observation of phononic dispersion of a three-dimensional solid/solid hypersonic colloidal crystal, Phys. Rev. B. 88, 144307. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.144307

  29. Zhang, J. S., Reynard, B., Montagnac, G., Wang, R. and J. D.Bass (2013), Pressure-induced Pbca-P21/c phase transition of natural orthoenstatite: Compositional effect and its geophysical implications, Am. Mineral., 98, 986-992, doi:10.2138/am.2013.4345.

  30. Zhang, J. S., P. Dera, and J. D. Bass (2012), A new high-pressure phase transition in natural Fe-bearing orthoenstatite, Am. Mineral., 97, 1070–1074, doi:10.2138/am.2012.4072.

  31. Zhang, J. S., J. D. Bass, T. Taniguchi, A. F. Goncharov, Y.-Y. Chang and S. D. Jacobsen (2011), Elasticity of cubic boron nitride under ambient conditions, J. Appl. Phys., 109, 063521, doi:10.1063/1.3561496

 

Book Chapters

  • Bass, J.D. and J. S. Zhang (2015), Techniques for measuring high P/T elasticity. In Price, G.D., Ed., Treatise on Geophysics (2nd edition)-Mineral Physics, 293-312. Elsevier, Amsterdam. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00037-3.

 

Invited Talks

  • Zhang, J.S., Constraining the large temperature and composition variations in the Mantle Transition Zone., Workshop: Advances in synchrotron-based research towards understanding the structure, evolution, and dynamics of Earth and planetary interiors, GSECARS/COMPRES, 2021

  • Zhang, J.S., COMPRES distinguished Lecture: Chemical mixing and mantle convection driven (or hindered) by eclogite in the terrestrial planets, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, Germany, 2021

  • Zhang, J.S., COMPRES distinguished Lecture: Chemical mixing and mantle convection driven (or hindered) by eclogite in the terrestrial planets, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2021

  • Zhang, J.S., Smith Lecture: Chemical mixing and mantle convection driven (or hindered) by eclogite in the terrestrial planets, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2021

  • Zhang, J.S., Hunting for the compositional heterogeneities in the Earth’s mantle: insights from minerals’ elastic anisotropy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2020

  • Zhang, J.S., Chasing the anisotropic heterogeneities in the Earth’s interior: Insights From Minerals’ Elastic Anisotropy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 2019

  • Zhang, J.S., The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of cubic high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure, Z Fundamental Science Program Workshop: Research Opportunities and User Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 2019 

  • Zhang, J.S., The anisotropic omphacite in the Earth’s upper mantle: implications for detecting the eclogitic materials inside the Earth. Mineralogical Society of America Centennial Symposium, Washington D.C., 2019.

  • Zhang, J.S., The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of cubic high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure, the 4th International Conference on Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Hefei, China, 2019 

  • Zhang, J.S., Chasing the anisotropic heterogeneities in the Earth’s interior, Center for High Pressure Science and technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China, 2019 

  • Zhang, J. S., The hidden sides of the olivine-wadsleyite transition: linking geochemistry, geophysics and geodynamics. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.

  • Zhang, J. S., Recent technical developments for determining the pressure-temperature-composition dependent anisotropic elastic properties of upper mantle minerals, SEDI conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2018

  • Zhang, J. S., The hidden sides of the olivine-wadsleyite transition, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2018

  • Zhang, J. S., The pressure-temperature-composition dependent anisotropic elastic properties of upper mantle minerals, NSLSII Annual User Meeting, Long Island, NY, 2018

  • Zhang, J. S., The hidden sides of the olivine-wadsleyite phase transition and the implications for the 410 discontinuity. Scripps Research Institute, University of San Diego, CA, 2018

  • Zhang, J. S., The hidden sides of the olivine-wadsleyite phase transition. NSLSII DAC workshop, Long island, NY, 2017

  • Zhang, J. S., Elasticity change across the olivine-wadsleyite transition and its implications for the composition and dynamics near the 410 discontinuity. GSA Cordilleran Section, Hawaii, 2017

  • Zhang, J. S., Petrology of the Earth’s Upper Mantle: eclogitic, piclogitic, pyrolitic or … dunitic? - evidence from sound velocities of olivine at high P T conditions, New Mexico Tech,  2016, Socorro, NM

  • Zhang, J. S., Petrology of the Earth’s Upper Mantle, Nanjing University, Northwest University, Chinese University of Geosciences Wuhan, 2015, China

  • Zhang, J. S., Xu, R., Zhang,  D.,  Dera, P.,  Eng, P. and J. Stubbs, Thermal diffuse scattering as a new technique for determine single crystal elastic properties of materials at high-pressure. AGU Fall Meeting, 2015, San Francisco, CA

  • Zhang, J. S., Petrology of the Earth’s Upper Mantle : eclogitic, piclogitic, pyrolitic or … dunitic? - evidence from sound velocities of olivine at high P T conditions. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

  • Zhang, J. S., P. Dera, B. Reynard, and J. D. Bass. Phase transformations of under extreme pressure temperature conditions: from atoms to Earth. MS&T15 conference, 2015, Columbus, OH

  • Zhang, J. S., Is upper mantle pyrolitic or not, University of Hawaii, 2015, Honolulu, HI

  • Zhang, J. S., New high-pressure phase transition in natural orthoenstatite system & sound velocity measurements at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures and variable q by Brillouin spectroscopy with laser heating, University of Illinois, 2014, Urbana, IL

  • Zhang, J. S., P. Dera, B. Reynard, G. Montagnac, and J. D. Bass Novel high pressure Pbca-P21/c phase transition an overview: Evidence from high pressure high temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy. IUCr-High Pressure Annual Meeting, 2012, Mito, Japan

  • Zhang, J. S., P. Dera and J. D. Bass High pressure Single crystal diffraction of Fe-bearing orthoenstatite. Advanced Light Source Annual Meeting, 2011, Berkeley, CA

 

Abstracts, Talks and Posters

  • Z Fundamental Science Program Workshop 2021

    • *Zhou, W.-Y., *Hao., M., Zhang, J.S., Chen, B., Wang, R., Schmandt, B., Constraining the composition and temperature variations in the Mantle Transition Zone, Z Fundamental Science Program Workshop: Research Opportunities and User Meeting, 2021 (virtual meeting)

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2021

    • *Hurlow, R., *Zhou, W.-Y., Miyagi, L., Zhang, J.S., Deformation behavior and textures of antigorite+ olivine at mantle wedge conditions, (virtual meeting through Zoom)

    • *Zhou, W.-Y., *Hao., M., Zhang, J.S., Chen, B., Wang, R., Schmandt, B., Large composition and temperature variation in the Mantle transition zone,  (virtual meeting through Zoom)

  • 51th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2021

    • *Zhou, W.-Y., Zhang, J.S., Olson, P., Shearer, C., Agee, C., Townsend, J., *Hao, M., *Hou, M. Plate Tectonics on Mars Hindered by Buoyant Martian Eclogite, 51th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2021 (virtual meeting through Zoom)

  • AGU Fall Meeting 2020

    • *Zhou, W-Y., Zhang, J.S., *Hao, M., Ohuchi, T., Chen, B., Miyagi, L., Schmandt, B., Anisotropy of the upper Mantle Transition Zone constrained from the first experimentally determined high P-T single-crystal elasticity data of wadsleyite, (virtual meeting through Zoom)

  • COMPRES annual meeting 2020

    • *Zhou, W-Y., *Hao, M., Chen, B., Zhang, J.S., Single-Crystal Elasticity of the Hydrous Fe-bearing Wadsleyite at High Pressure-Temperature Conditions, (virtual meeting through Zoom)

    • *Hao, M., Zhang, J.S., *Zhou, W-Y., **Pierotti, C.E., High temperature-pressure single-crystal elastic properties of omphacite, (virtual meeting through Zoom)

  • AGU Fall meeting 2019

    • Jin S. Zhang, *Ren, Z., *Zhou, W.-Y., *Hao, M., Chen, B., Dera, P. and Schmandt, B., Systematic analysis of the single-crystal elastic properties of wadsleyite in the Fe-H2O%-Pressure 4D space, San Francisco, CA.

    • *Hao, M., Zhang, J. S.,*Zhou, W.-Y., **Pierotti, E. C., High temperature-pressure single-crystal elastic properties of omphacite, San Francisco, CA.

  • COMPRES annual meeting 2019

    • Zhang, J. S., *Hao, M., *Ren, Z., and Chen, B., The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure,Big Sky, MT.

    • *Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., **Pierotti, C., *Zhou, W.-Y., Zhang, D., Dera, P. High-pressure single-crystal elasticity and thermal equation of state of jadeite, Big Sky, MT.

    • *Zhou, W.-Y., Zhang, J. S., Shearer, C., Agee, C., and Townsend, J., Geophysical Properties of Martian Basalt at High Pressure-Temperature Condition, Big Sky, MT.

    • *Hou, M., Zhang, Y., Liu, J., Wu, Y., Liu, J, Zhang, D., Prapenka, V., Meng, Y., Xiao, Y., Chow, P., Yan, J., Kunz, M., Zhang, L., Chen, B., Fei, Y.,  Carbon paradox in the Earth’s inner core. Big Sky, MT.

  • 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019

    • *Zhou, W.-Y., Zhang, J. S., Shearer, C., Agee, C., and Townsend, J., Geophysical Properties of Martian Basalt at High Pressure-Temperature Condition, 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2019, Woodland, TX

    • Zhang, J. S., *Hao, M., and Chen, B. The Extreme Acoustic Anisotropy And Fast Sound Velocities Of Cubic High-Pressure Ice Polymorphs At Mbar Pressure, Woodland, TX

  • AGU Fall meeting 2018

    • *Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., **Pierotti, E. C., *Ren, Z., Zhang, D., Single-crystal elasticity and thermal equation of state of omphacite to 18GPa, Washington D.C.

  • COMPRES annual meeting, 2018

    • *Hao, M., **Pierotti, E. C. and Zhang, J. S.,  Single-Crystal Elastic Properties of Omphacite: The Effect of Pressure and Composition, , Albuquerque, NM

  • AGU Fall meeting 2017

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., and Schmandt, B., A coherent high-pressure high-temperature single-crystal elasticity model of Fe-bearing olivine and the implications for the 410 discontinuity, New Orleans, LA

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2016

    • Zhang, J. S., Xu, R., Zhang,  D.,  Dera, P.,  Eng, P., Stubbs, J., Xu, J. and M. L. Rivers, COMPTECH operation at APS for the past 1.5 years, Albuquerque, NM US

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2015

    • Zhang, J. S., Xu, R., Zhang,  D.,  Dera, P.,  Eng, P. and J. Stubbs, Determine single crystal elasticity using Thermal Diffused Scattering (TDS), Colorado Springs, Colorado US

  • Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., Single-crystal Brillouin Spectroscopy with Laser Heating and Variable q: Design, Demonstration and Results on Olivine, Makuhari Messe, Japan

  • AGU Fall Meeting, 2014

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., Single-crystal Brillouin Spectroscopy with Laser Heating and Variable q: Design, Demonstration and New Results on Olivine, San Francisco, CA

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2014

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., Sound velocity measurements at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures and variable q by Brillouin spectroscopy with laser heating, Stevenson, WA

  • AGU Fall Meeting, 2013

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., Sound velocity measurements at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures and variable q by Brillouin spectroscopy with laser heating, San Francisco, CA

  • 3rd Global-COE International symposium of deep earth mineralogy in conjuction with TANDEM March 2013

    • Zhang, J. S., Bass, J.D., Reynard, B. and P. Dera. Elasticity and structure of mantle pyroxenes. Matsuyama, Japan

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2012

    • Zhang, J. S., Reynard, B., Montagnac, G., Wang, R.C. and J. D. Bass High pressure phase transition of orthoenstatite. Williamsburg, VA

  • AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly 2012

    • Bass, J.D., Zhang, J. S. and P. Dera. High-Pressure Transition and Sound Velocities of Natural Enstatite. Singapore 

  • GSA Annual Meeting 2011

    • Zhang, J. S., P. Dera and J. D. Bass New imagine of Fe-bearing Orthoenstatite phase diagram and its geophysical significance. Minneapolis, MN

  • COMPRES Annual Meeting 2011

    • Zhang, J. S., P. Dera and J. D. Bass High pressure phase transition of orthoenstatite. Williamsburg, VA

  • AGU Fall Meeting, 2010

    • Zhang, J. S., J. D. Bass, T. Taniguchi, and A. F. Goncharov Elastic properties of cubic boron nitride under ambient conditions. San Francisco, CA

  • AGU Fall Meeting, 2009

    • Zhang, J. S. and J. D. Bass High pressure elastic properties of natural orthopyroxene up to 18GPa. San Francisco, CA

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