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Ai-Cheng Zhang

Professor of Mineralogy
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Nanjing University
#163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210046, China
E-mail: aczhang@nju.edu.cn

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We investigate both the high-temperature processes in the solar nebula and the secondary processes that have prevailed and are prevailing on the surface of planets and asteroids. Our research mainly relies on in-situ and microscopic observations and analyses on petrography, mineralogy, and geochemistry of minerals in meteorites and mission-returned samples. Our aim is to understand how the solar nebula and its planets and asteroids evolved, based on the microscopic records in planetary materials.

NEWS

2020.06.10 College students Xiao LIU and Lang ZHANG completed their thesis defense.
2020.05.27 Master student Yong XIONG completed his thesis defense.
2020.04.02 Manuscript by Jieya and Prof. Zhang about the new occurrence of corundum in a eucrite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!
2020.02.13 Prof. Zhang's paper on the angrite-like planetesimal was accepted by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for publication. Congratulations!
2020.02.10 Prof. Zhang's paper on metasomatism in the interior of Vesta was accepted by Nature Communications and will appear online in March 10, 2020. Congratulations!
2020.01.18 Prof. Zhang's paper on lunar loveringite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!
2019.09.19 Runlian's paper about unique Ti-rich mineral assemblage in NWA 8003 was accepted by Geochemistry for publication. Congratulations!
2019.07.07-12 Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting at Sapporo and gave an oral presentation on an angrite-like planetesimal in a CH chondrite.
2019.05.26-30 Prof. Zhang attended the JpGU meeting in Tokyo this year and gave an invited oral presentation on shock-induced high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.
2019.05.18 Deliang successfully defensed his master thesis. Congratulations!
2019.05.17 Runlian successfully defensed her PhD thesis. Congratulations! Dr. Pang!
2019.03.05 Manuscript by Deliang, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about shock-induced phase transformation of anorthite has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations!
2018.12.07 Manuscript by Shuzhou, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about space weathering on Vesta has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations Shuzhou!
2018.11.21 Prof. Wei Yang and Yu Liu visited our group and attended the SIMS symposium hosted by Prof. Zhang.
2018.11.17-25 Dr. Naoya Sakamoto from Hokkaido University visited our group.
2018.10.29 Prof. Wei Du and Associate Prof. Yuyan Zhao visited our group and gave two presentations about melting enstatite chondrite and halogen geochemistry on Mars.
2018.10.25-27 Dr. Vera A. Fernandes visited our group and gave a presentation about Earth-Moon impact bombardment history.
2018.10.20-23 Prof. Zhang and Run-in attended the annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union at Beijing and gave two oral presentations and one poster presentation.
2018.10.9-12 Prof. Zhang attended Chinese SIMS workshop at Suzhou.
Paper by Prof. Zhang and Shuzhou on nucleation and growth of minerals in impact melt pocket has been accepted for publication by American Mineralogist.
Undergraduate students Haoxuan Sun, Yang He, and Qinting Jiang joined our group. Welcome!
2018.7.16-18 Prof. Zhang attended the second CNSA-ESA workshop in lunar science at Amsterdam, the Netherland.
2018.7.6-8 Prof. Zhang, graduate students Deliang Chen, Yong Xiong, Jieya Li, and undergraduate student Yan Song attended the annual meeting of mineral science and technology at Mianyang, Chengdu.
2018.05.28 Shu-Zhou successfully defensed his master course thesis. Congratulations!
2018.05.25 Run-Lian's new paper about Vestaite, a new mineral first discovered in HED meteorites was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!
2018.04.16 A symposium about Meteorites was held in Nanjing University.
2018.01.17-18 Professor Zhang attended ISSI-BJ Forum on "Roads towards Sample Return from Comets and Asteroids".
2017.12.27 Department of Earth Science changed to Department of Earth and Planetary Science.
2017.11.25-12.23 Professor Zhang visited Hokkaido University, Japan.
2017.10.15-18 Professor Zhang attended CGU meeting at Beijing.
2017.10.04 GOOD NEWS! New mineral name Vestaite from our group has been approved by International Mineralogical Association!
2017.09.29 Paper by Prof. Zhang about a unique troilite-orthopyroxene intergrowth from a diogenite meteorite has been accepted for publication by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Two graduate students Jie-Ya Li and Yong Xiong join our group! Welcome!
2017.06.16 Paper by Shuzhou about the petrogenesis and shock metamorphism of a martian meteorite NWA 7755 has been accepted for publication by Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!
2017.05.26 Paper by Runlian about origins of silicate veinlets in HED meteorites has been accepted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!
2017.05.17 Student Yang Li defended her master thesis. Congratulations!
2017.05.08 Prof. Zhang visited Peking University and gave an oral presentation.
2017.04.26 Prof. Hua-Pei Wang from Chinese University of Geosciencs visited our group and gave a presentation about application of paleomagnetism in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
2017.04.19-23 Prof. Zhang participated the meeting of Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry and gave an oral presentation about space weathering.
2017.03.19-25 Prof. Zhang participated the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at Houston.
2016.11.16-18 Prof. Shogo Tachibana from Hokkaido University visited our group and gave a seminar about Hayabusa2.
2016.11.02-04 Dr. Shi-Jie Li from the Institute of Geochemistry visited our group and presented a lecture about searching meteorites in the deserts of Northwestern China.
2016.10.21-23 Prof. Zhang attended the Meeting for Mineral Science and Engineering held in Beijing.
2016.10.14-18 Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union held in Beijing and reported the work about new occurrence of P-rich olivine in carbonacous chondrite.
2016.09.30 Paper by Prof. Zhang has been published online by Nature Communications.
2016.08.25 Paper by Graduate student Yang Li has been accepted for publication in American Mineralogist.
2016.08.07-12 Prof. Zhang attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Berlin.
2016.06.8-10. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the International Symposium of Lunar and Planetary Science at Wuhan.
2016.05.20. Prof. Zhang visited HeFei University of Technology and gave a lecture titled "Chondrites--Messenger from the Early Solar System".
2016.05.17. Runlian Pang has been awarded the 2016 Nanjing University President Special Prize for PhD students. Congratulations, Runlian!
2016.05.16. Manuscript by PhD student Runlian Pang, Shuzhou Wang, and Prof. Zhang has been published in Scientific Reports.
2016.04.07. Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a symposium on planetary science at Purple Mountain Observatory. Prof. Zhang gave a talk on a unique formation mechanism of P-rich olivine.
2015.12.21-22. Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a mineralogical symposium held at University of Science and Technology of China. PhD student Runlian Pang gave a talk about high-pressure minerals observed in a eucrite meteorite.
2015.11.26-27. Prof. Zhang visited the Geochemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Science at Guiyang and gave a lecture about high-pressure mineralogy of HED meteorites.
2015.10.19. Graduate student Runlian Pang successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.
2015.10.18. A manuscript about a unique P,O-rich sulfide in CM chondrites have been accpeted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
2015.10.14-18. Prof. Qingzhu Yin from University of California at Davis visisted our group.
2015.10.15. Graduate student Yang Li successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.
2015.10.10-12. Prof. Zhang attended the 2nd meeting of Chinese Geophysical Union and gave a lecture about searching for high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.
2015.07.18-25. Prof. Shichun Huang from University of Nevada, Las Vegas visited our group.
2015.06.04. Undergraduate students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang defensed their bachelor thesises successfully. Congratulations!
2015.05.31. Prof. Zhang started his visit at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
2015.05.28. PhD student Rong Yin successfully defenced her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
2015.05.27. Senior students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang practised the presentations about their bachelor thesis.
2015.05.21-22. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the international workshop about FIB technique held at Shanghai by High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR).
2015.05.18-19. Dr. Chi Ma from California Institute of Technology visited our group and gave a lecture "Nanomineralogy and Discovery of New Minerals".
2015.05.17. Paper by Prof. Zhang and coauthors from Caltech and Hokkaido University has been formally published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
2015.04.27-30. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang visited Institute of Geology and Geophysics for FIB-TEM observations.
2015.04.10. Prof. Zhang organized a workshop about Planetary Geological Processes and Surface Evolution at Nanjing University. More than 30 colleagues attended this workshop, including 10 from Chinese Academy of Sciences and other Universities.
2015.03.15-22. Prof. Zhang attended the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and gave an oral presentation about alteration origin of coarse-grained apatite and its unique U-Pb age.

Ai-Cheng Zhang Professor of Mineralogy School of Earth Sciences and Engineering Nanjing University #163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210046, China E-mail: aczhang@nju.edu.cn

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Welcome to Planetary Mineralogy Group

at Nanjing University!

NEWS

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2020.06.10 College students Xiao LIU and Lang ZHANG completed their thesis defense.

2020.05.27 Master student Yong XIONG completed his thesis defense.

2020.04.02 Manuscript by Jieya and Prof. Zhang about the new occurrence of corundum in a eucrite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

2020.02.13 Prof. Zhang's paper on the angrite-like planetesimal was accepted by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for publication. Congratulations!

2020.02.10 Prof. Zhang's paper on metasomatism in the interior of Vesta was accepted by Nature Communications and will appear online in March 10, 2020. Congratulations!

2020.01.18 Prof. Zhang's paper on lunar loveringite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

2019.09.19 Runlian's paper about unique Ti-rich mineral assemblage in NWA 8003 was accepted by Geochemistry for publication. Congratulations!

2019.07.07-12 Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting at Sapporo and gave an oral presentation on an angrite-like planetesimal in a CH chondrite.

2019.05.26-30 Prof. Zhang attended the JpGU meeting in Tokyo this year and gave an invited oral presentation on shock-induced high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.

2019.05.18 Deliang successfully defensed his master thesis. Congratulations!

2019.05.17 Runlian successfully defensed her PhD thesis. Congratulations! Dr. Pang!

2019.03.05 Manuscript by Deliang, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about shock-induced phase transformation of anorthite has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations!

2018.12.07 Manuscript by Shuzhou, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about space weathering on Vesta has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations Shuzhou!

2018.11.21 Prof. Wei Yang and Yu Liu visited our group and attended the SIMS symposium hosted by Prof. Zhang.

2018.11.17-25 Dr. Naoya Sakamoto from Hokkaido University visited our group.

2018.10.29 Prof. Wei Du and Associate Prof. Yuyan Zhao visited our group and gave two presentations about melting enstatite chondrite and halogen geochemistry on Mars.

2018.10.25-27 Dr. Vera A. Fernandes visited our group and gave a presentation about Earth-Moon impact bombardment history.

2018.10.20-23 Prof. Zhang and Run-in attended the annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union at Beijing and gave two oral presentations and one poster presentation.

2018.10.9-12 Prof. Zhang attended Chinese SIMS workshop at Suzhou.

Paper by Prof. Zhang and Shuzhou on nucleation and growth of minerals in impact melt pocket has been accepted for publication by American Mineralogist.

Undergraduate students Haoxuan Sun, Yang He, and Qinting Jiang joined our group. Welcome!

2018.7.16-18 Prof. Zhang attended the second CNSA-ESA workshop in lunar science at Amsterdam, the Netherland.

2018.7.6-8 Prof. Zhang, graduate students Deliang Chen, Yong Xiong, Jieya Li, and undergraduate student Yan Song attended the annual meeting of mineral science and technology at Mianyang, Chengdu.

2018.05.28 Shu-Zhou successfully defensed his master course thesis. Congratulations!

2018.05.25 Run-Lian's new paper about Vestaite, a new mineral first discovered in HED meteorites was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

2018.04.16 A symposium about Meteorites was held in Nanjing University.

2018.01.17-18 Professor Zhang attended ISSI-BJ Forum on "Roads towards Sample Return from Comets and Asteroids".

2017.12.27 Department of Earth Science changed to Department of Earth and Planetary Science.

2017.11.25-12.23 Professor Zhang visited Hokkaido University, Japan.

2017.10.15-18 Professor Zhang attended CGU meeting at Beijing.

2017.10.04 GOOD NEWS! New mineral name Vestaite from our group has been approved by International Mineralogical Association!

2017.09.29 Paper by Prof. Zhang about a unique troilite-orthopyroxene intergrowth from a diogenite meteorite has been accepted for publication by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Two graduate students Jie-Ya Li and Yong Xiong join our group! Welcome!

2017.06.16 Paper by Shuzhou about the petrogenesis and shock metamorphism of a martian meteorite NWA 7755 has been accepted for publication by Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!

2017.05.26 Paper by Runlian about origins of silicate veinlets in HED meteorites has been accepted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!

2017.05.17 Student Yang Li defended her master thesis. Congratulations!

2017.05.08 Prof. Zhang visited Peking University and gave an oral presentation.

2017.04.26 Prof. Hua-Pei Wang from Chinese University of Geosciencs visited our group and gave a presentation about application of paleomagnetism in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

2017.04.19-23 Prof. Zhang participated the meeting of Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry and gave an oral presentation about space weathering.

2017.03.19-25 Prof. Zhang participated the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at Houston.

2016.11.16-18 Prof. Shogo Tachibana from Hokkaido University visited our group and gave a seminar about Hayabusa2.

2016.11.02-04 Dr. Shi-Jie Li from the Institute of Geochemistry visited our group and presented a lecture about searching meteorites in the deserts of Northwestern China.

2016.10.21-23 Prof. Zhang attended the Meeting for Mineral Science and Engineering held in Beijing.

2016.10.14-18 Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union held in Beijing and reported the work about new occurrence of P-rich olivine in carbonacous chondrite.

2016.09.30 Paper by Prof. Zhang has been published online by Nature Communications.

2016.08.25 Paper by Graduate student Yang Li has been accepted for publication in American Mineralogist.

2016.08.07-12 Prof. Zhang attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Berlin.

2016.06.8-10. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the International Symposium of Lunar and Planetary Science at Wuhan.

2016.05.20. Prof. Zhang visited HeFei University of Technology and gave a lecture titled "Chondrites--Messenger from the Early Solar System".

2016.05.17. Runlian Pang has been awarded the 2016 Nanjing University President Special Prize for PhD students. Congratulations, Runlian!

2016.05.16. Manuscript by PhD student Runlian Pang, Shuzhou Wang, and Prof. Zhang has been published in Scientific Reports.

2016.04.07. Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a symposium on planetary science at Purple Mountain Observatory. Prof. Zhang gave a talk on a unique formation mechanism of P-rich olivine.

2015.12.21-22. Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a mineralogical symposium held at University of Science and Technology of China. PhD student Runlian Pang gave a talk about high-pressure minerals observed in a eucrite meteorite.

2015.11.26-27. Prof. Zhang visited the Geochemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Science at Guiyang and gave a lecture about high-pressure mineralogy of HED meteorites.

2015.10.19. Graduate student Runlian Pang successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.

2015.10.18. A manuscript about a unique P,O-rich sulfide in CM chondrites have been accpeted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

2015.10.14-18. Prof. Qingzhu Yin from University of California at Davis visisted our group.

2015.10.15. Graduate student Yang Li successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.

2015.10.10-12. Prof. Zhang attended the 2nd meeting of Chinese Geophysical Union and gave a lecture about searching for high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.

2015.07.18-25. Prof. Shichun Huang from University of Nevada, Las Vegas visited our group.

2015.06.04. Undergraduate students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang defensed their bachelor thesises successfully. Congratulations!

2015.05.31. Prof. Zhang started his visit at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

2015.05.28. PhD student Rong Yin successfully defenced her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

2015.05.27. Senior students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang practised the presentations about their bachelor thesis.

2015.05.21-22. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the international workshop about FIB technique held at Shanghai by High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR).

2015.05.18-19. Dr. Chi Ma from California Institute of Technology visited our group and gave a lecture "Nanomineralogy and Discovery of New Minerals".

2015.05.17. Paper by Prof. Zhang and coauthors from Caltech and Hokkaido University has been formally published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

2015.04.27-30. Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang visited Institute of Geology and Geophysics for FIB-TEM observations.

2015.04.10. Prof. Zhang organized a workshop about Planetary Geological Processes and Surface Evolution at Nanjing University. More than 30 colleagues attended this workshop, including 10 from Chinese Academy of Sciences and other Universities.

2015.03.15-22. Prof. Zhang attended the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and gave an oral presentation about alteration origin of coarse-grained apatite and its unique U-Pb age.

Ai-Cheng Zhang

Professor of Mineralogy
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Nanjing University
#163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210046, China
E-mail: aczhang@nju.edu.cn