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Name  
 Zhang Yigang
Title  
   Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geochemistry
Phone  
   010-82998370
Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   010-62010846
Email  
   zhangyg@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
Zhang Yigang

Educations:
Bachelor degree (1979-1983): Department of Geology, Pekin University
Master degree (1984-1985): Ecole Nationale Superieure de Geologie et minier, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Ph.D. (1988-1989): Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques, Centre National de Rechereches Scientifiques, Nancy, France
Postdoc: Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., USA

Work Experiences:
November 1989-July 1992: Assistant researcher at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of sciences
July 1992-July 1993: Associate researcher at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of sciences
July 1993-June 1999: Researcher at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of sciences (September 1995-May 1996: Visiting Scholar at Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington,Washington D.C., USA)
June 1999-present: Researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of sciences (August 2004-December 2004: Visiting professor at Geodynamic Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan)

Research Interests：
Study physical and chemical properties of Earth materials at high temperatures and pressures using first-principles molecular dynamics
Public Services：

Honors：

Supported Projects：
  1. Molecular dynamics study of the equation of state parameters of MgO from National Science Foundation of China 
  2. First-principles molecular dynamics study of element partitioning during the magma ocean process in the early history of the Earth from Chinese Academy of Sciences 
  3. Equilibration degree of core-mantle segregation in the early history of the earth from National Science Foundation of China

Publications：
  1. Zhang YG and Frantz JD (1987) Determination of homogenization temperatures and densities of supercritical fluids in the system NaCl-KCl-CaCl2-H2O using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 64：335~350.
  2. Frantz JD, Mao HK, Zhang YG, et al. (1988) Analysis of fluid inclusions by X-ray fluorescence using synchrotron radiation. Chemical Geology, 69: 235~244.
  3. Zhang YG and Frantz JD (1989) Experimental determination of the compositional limits of immiscibility in the system CaCl2-CO2-H2O at high temperatures and pressures using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 74：289~308.
  4. Frantz JD, Zhang YG, Hickmott DD, and Hoering TC (1989) Hydrothermal reactions involving equilibria between minreals and mixed-volatiles. I) Techniques for experimentally loading and analyzing gases and their application to synthetic fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 76：57~70.
  5. Zhang YG and Frantz, JD (1992) Hydrothermal reactions involving equilibria between minerals and mixed-volatiles. II) Investigations of fluid properties in the CO2-CH4-H2O system  using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 100:51~70.
  6. Zhang, Y.G. (1992)  Experimental determination of the interaction between the siliceous marble and the immiscible fluid NaCl-CO2-H2O at high temperatures and pressures：Preliminary results. Scientia Geologica Sinica,1：97~105.
  7. Zhang Y.-G., 1997, Molar volumes of the binary system H2O-CH4 at high temperatures and pressures. Scientia Geologica Sinica, 32: 299-307
  8. Guo YG, Nie GZ and Zhang YG (1998) Equilibrium molecular dynamics calculations of the shear viscosity of water at high temperatures and pressures. Scientia Geologica Sinica, 7(4): 559~567.
  9. Dubessy J, Moisette A, Bakker RJ, Frantz JD, and Zhang YG (1999) High-temperature Raman spectroscopic study of H2O-CO2-CH4 mixtures in synthetic fluid inclusions: First insights on molecular interactions and analytic implications. European Journal of Mineralogy, 11:23~32.
  10. Zhang YG, Guo GJ, & Nie GZ (2000) A molecular dynamics study of bulk and shear viscosity of liquid iron using embedded-atom potential. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 27: 164~169.
  11. Zhang YG and Frantz, JD (2000) Enstatite-forsterite-water equilibria at elevated temperatures and pressures. American Mineralogist, 85: 918~925.
  12. Zhang YG and Guo GJ (2000) Molecular dynamics calculation of the bulk viscosity of liquid iron-nickel alloy and the mechanisms for the bulk attenuation of seismic waves in the Earth’s outer core. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 122(3-4): 289~298.
  13. Guo GJ and Zhang YG (2001) Equilibrium molecular dynamics calculation of the bulk viscosity of liquid water. Molecular Physics, 99(4): 283~289.
  14. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, Refson K, and Zhao YJ (2002) Viscosity and stress autocorrelation function in supercooled water: a molecular dynamics study. Molecular Physics, 100(16): 2617~2628.
  15. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, and Zhao YJ (2003) Comment on “Computation of the viscosity of a liquid from time averages of stress fluctuations” Physical Review E, 67: 1~3
  16. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, and Zhao YJ (2003) Molecular dynamics simulations of filled and empty cage-like water clusters in liquid water and their significance to gas hydrate formation mechanisms, 化工学报, 54, 62~66.
  17. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, Zhao YJ, Refson K, and Shan G (2004) Lifetimes of cage-like water clusters immersed in bulk liquid water: A molecular dynamics study on gas hydrate nucleation mechanisms. J. Chem. Phys., 121(3), 1542~1547
  18. Zhang YG, Guo GJ, Refson K, and Zhao YJ (2004) Finite-size effect at both high and low temperatures in molecular dynamics calculations of the self-diffusion coefficient and viscosity of liquid silica. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16: 9127~9135.
  19. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, and Refson K (2005) Effect of H-bond topology on the lifetimes of cagelike water clusters immersed in liquid water and the probability distribution of these lifetimes: Implications for hydrate nucleation mechanisms. Chem. Phys. Lett., 413(4-6), 415~419.
  20. Zhang YG, Zhao DP, Matsui M (2005) Anisotropy of akimotoite: A molecular dynamics study. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 151, 309~319.
  21. Zhang YG, Zhao DP, Matsui M, Guo GJ (2006) Equations of state of CaSiO3 perovskite: A molecular dynamics study. Physics and chemistry of minerals, 33, 126~137.
  22. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, and Liu H (2007) Effect of methane adsorption on the lifetime of a dodecahedral water cluster immersed in liquid water: A molecular dynamics study on the hydrate nucleation mechanisms, J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol.111, pp.2595~2606.
  23. Zhang YG, Zhao DP, Matsui M, Guo GJ (2007) Strong temperature dependence of the first pressure derivative of isothermal bulk modulus at zero pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B11202, doi:10.1029/2006JB004865
  24. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, Li M, and Wu CH (2008) Can the dodecahedral water cluster naturally form in methane aqueous solutions? A molecular dynamics study on the hydrate nucleation mechanisms. Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 194504.
  25. Guo GJ, Li M, Zhang YG, Wu CH (2009) Why can water cages adsorb aqueous methane? A potential of mean force calculation on hydrate nucleation mechanisms. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11, 10427~10437.
  26. Zhang YG and Guo GJ (2009) Partitioning of Si and O between liquid iron and silicate melt: A two-phase ab-initio molecular dynamics study. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L18305, doi:10.1029/2009GL039751.
  27. Guo GJ, Li M, Zhang YG, and Wu CH (2009) Why can water cages adsorb aqueous methane? A potential of mean force calculation on hydrate nucleation mechanisms，Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11, 10427~10437.
  28. Guo GJ, Zhang YG, Liu CJ, and Li KH (2011) Using the face-saturated incomplete cage analysis to quantify the cage compositions and cage linking structures of amorphous phase hydrates，Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13, 12048~12057.
  29. Zhang YG and Yin QZ (2012) Carbon and other light element contents in the Earth’s core based on first-principles molecular dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 19579~19583.
  30. Liu, CJ, Zhang ZC, Zhang ZG, Zhang YG, and Guo GJ (2013) Effects of cage type and adsorption face on the cage-methane adsorption interaction: Implications for hydrate nucleation studies, Chem. Phys. Lett., Vol.475,54~58.
  31. Cui H, Zhang ZG, and Zhang YG (2013) The effect of Si and S on the stability of bcc iron with respect to tetragonal strain at the Earth’s inner core conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 40: 2958-2962, doi:10.1002/grl.50582.
  32. Sun T, Xian J, Zhang H, Zhang ZG, and Zhang YG (2017) Two phase thermodynamic model for computing entropies of liquids reanalyzed. Journal of Chemical Physics 147, 194505.
  33. Zhang ZG, Mao Z, Liu X, Zhang YG, Brodholt J (2018) Stability and reactions of CaCO3 polymorphs in the earth's deep mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research-solid earth, 123, 6491-6500. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015654
  34. Zhao Y, Zhang YG, Geng M, Jiang JL, Zou XY (2019) Involvement of slab-derived fluid in the generation of Cenozoic basalts in Northeast China inferred from machine learning. 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082322
  35. Liu WY, Zhang YG, Yin QZ, Zhao Y, Zhang ZG (2020) magnesium partitioning between silicate melt and liquid iron using first-principles molecular dynamics: Implications for the early thermal history of the Earth’s core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531: 115934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115934
 
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