Research Interests

        Study of ultrahigh pressure physics, chemistry, materials sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and planetary sciences using diamond-anvil cell.

 Selected Publications

Mao, W.L., H.K. Mao, Y. Meng, P. Eng, M.Y. Hu, P. Chow, Y.Q. Cai, J. Shu, and R.J. Hemley, X-ray-induced dissociation of H₂O and formation of an O₂-H₂ alloy at high pressure, Science, 314, 636-638, 2006.

Mao, W.L., H.K. Mao, W. Sturhahn, J. Zhao, V.B. Prakapenka, Y. Meng, J. Shu, Y. Fei, and R.J. Hemley, Iron-rich post-perovskite and the origin of ultralow-velocity zones, Science, 312, 564-565, 2006.

Merkel, S., A. Kubo, L. Miyagi, S. Speziale, T.S. Duffy, H.K. Mao, and H.-R. Wenk, Plastic deformation of MgGeO₃ post-perovskite at lower mantle pressures, Science, 311, 644-646, 2006.

Degtyareva, O., E. Gregoryanz, M. Somayazulu, P. Dera, H.K. Mao, and R.J. Hemley, Novel chain structures in group VI elements, Nature Mat. 4, 152-155, 2005.

Lee, S.K., P.J. Eng, H.K. Mao, Y. Meng, M. Newville, M.Y. Hu, and J. Shu, Probing of bonding changes in B₂O₃ glasses at high pressure with inelastic X-ray scattering, Nature Mat., 4, 851-854, 2005.

Lin, J.-F., V.V. Struzhkin, S.D. Jacobsen, M.Y. Hu, P. Chow, J. Kung, H. Liu, H.K. Mao, and R.J. Hemley, Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth’s lower mantle, Nature, 436, 377-380, 2005.

Lin, J.-F., W. Sturhahn, J. Zhao, G. Shen, H.K. Mao, and R.J. Hemley, Sound velocities of hot dense iron: Birch’s law revisited, Science, 308, 1892-1894, 2005.

Gregoryanz, E., C. Sanloup, M. Somayazulu, J. Badro, G. Fiquet, R.J. Hemley, and H.K. Mao, Synthesis and characterization of a binary noble metal nitride, Nature Mater. 3, 294-297, 2004.

Lin, J.-F., O. Degtyareva, C.T. Prewitt, P. Dera, N. Sata, E. Gregoryanz, H.K. Mao, and R.J. Hemley, Crystal structure of a high-pressure/high-temperature phase of alumina by in situ X-ray diffraction, Nature Mater., 3, 389-393, 2004.

Meng, Y., H.K. Mao, P. Eng, T. Trainor, M. Newville, M.Y. Hu, C.C. Kao, D. Hausermann, and R.J. Hemley, BN under compression: the formation of sp³ bonding, Nature Mater. 3, 111-114, 2004.

Mao, W.L., H.K. Mao, P. Eng, T. Trainor, M. Newville, C.C. Kao, D.L. Heinz, J. Shu, Y. Meng, and R.J. Hemley, Bonding changes in compressed superhard graphite, Science 302, 425-427, 2003.

Mao, W.L., H.K. Mao, A.F. Goncharov, V.V. Struzhkin, Q. Guo, J. Hu, J. Shu, R.J. Hemley, M. Somayazulu, and Y. Zhao, Hydrogen clusters in clathrate hydrate, Science 297, 2247-2249, 2002.

Publications in Science, Publications in Nature, Detailed publication list

 Elected Memberships, Fellowships, and Awards

Member of National Academy of Science, U.S.A. since 1993;

Member of Academia Sinica, Republic of China, since 1994;

Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of China, since 1996;

Fellow of American Physical Society;

Fellow of American Geophysical Union;

Fellow of Geochemical Society;

Fellow of European Association for Geochemistry;

Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America;

Balzan Prize in Mineral Physics, Balzan Foundation, Italy and Switzerland, 2005;

Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2005;

Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America, 2005;

Sigma Xi National Lectureship, Sigma Xi Scientific Society, 1991-1993;

Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, National Academy of Science, 1990;

P. W. Bridgman Gold Medal Award, International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure

      Science & Technology (AIRAPT), 1989;

Mineralogical Society of America Award, 1979.

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