Biography:Ho-Kwang Mao

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Short description: Chinese-American geologist
Ho-Kwang Mao
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Born (1941-06-18) June 18, 1941 (age 82)
Shanghai, China
Alma mater1963 B.S. National Taiwan University

1966 M.S. University of Rochester

1968 Ph.D University of Rochester
Known forHigh Pressure techniques, X-ray sciences
Spouse(s)Agnes Mao
AwardsInge Lehmann Medal (2007)

Balzan Prize (2005)
Gregori Aminoff Prize (2005)
Roebling Medal (2005)
Arthur L. Day Prize (1990)
P. W. Bridgman Award (1989)

Mineralogical Society of America Award (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, Material Sciences
InstitutionsCarnegie Institution of Washington
Doctoral advisorBill Bassett and Taro Takahashi [1]
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/ho-kwangmao/cv

Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (Chinese: 毛河光; pinyin: Máo Héguāng; Wade–Giles: Mao Ho-kuang; born June 18, 1941) is a Chinese-American geologist. He is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China.[2] He was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science[3] for more than 30 years. Mao is a recognized leading scientist in high pressure geosciences and physical science. There are two minerals named after him, Davemaoite and Maohokite.

Biography

Mao was born in Shanghai in 1941. His father, General Mao Sen (毛森), was a high-ranking official of the intelligence department of the Republic of China. When Mao was seven years old, he moved to Taiwan with his family, fleeing with the rest of the government of the Republic of China to the province.[4][5] Mao received his BS from National Taiwan University in 1963. Mao further pursued his studies in the United States, and obtained MS in 1966 and PhD in 1968 from the University of Rochester, New York.

From 1968 to 1972, Mao did his postdoctoral research at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW). From then on Mao has spent his career at Geophysical Laboratory as a Senior Staff scientist.

In 2013, Mao founded Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in his birthplace, Shanghai.[2][6] He takes the director role at the center and leads a group of international scientists to tackle world-class scientific challenges.[6] The center has a Nature index of 17.68 in 2021 and was on an increasing trend since 2016.[7]

Mao has three daughters - Cyndy, Linda, and Wendy. His youngest daughter, Wendy Mao, is a professor of geological sciences at Stanford University.[8]

Research

Achieving high pressure and pressure calibration methods

Mao is one of the most prolific users of the diamond anvil cell for research at high pressures. Although at the time the claim was controversial,[9] his work with Peter M. Bell is now generally accepted as being the first verified static pressure in excess of 1 Megabar.[10][11]

Mao and colleagues first calibrated ruby fluorescence pressure scale to 80 GPa and this method has been widely used in almost every diamond anvil cell experiments.[12] This work has been cited by 3921 times as of Jan 15, 2022, according to google scholar.

In 2018, 400 GPa was achieved by his team and a detailed description of pressure loading and distribution, gasket thickness variation, and diamond anvil deformation was reported.[13][14]

Towards metallic hydrogen

Mao is a pioneer in experimentally exploring the possible metallic hydrogen phase under high pressure. His work on solid hydrogen starts in 1988, where he reported single-crystal structure of hydrogen up to 26.5 GPa.[15] He later published a review paper on transitions in solid hydrogen in 1994.[16] In 1996, his team's work[17] suggested a more compressible solid hydrogen than previously thought. More recently in 2019, his team published results on single crystal diffraction of the lightest material in the world, hydrogen, up to 254 GPa and revealed isostructural electronic transitions in solid hydrogen at around 220 GPa.[18]

Superconductivity

In 1987, Mao and a colleague at the Geophysical Laboratory, Robert Hazen, identified the composition and structure of the first high-temperature superconductor to have a critical temperature above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.[19]

Iron peroxide in Earth's interior

Mao discovered formation of FeO2Hx from goethite FeOOH[20] or from iron-water reaction[21] under Earth's lower mantle conditions. The novel FeO2Hx phase processes a pyrite structure. Since this phase can contain varied amount of hydrogen,[22] it would have important implications for the deep water cycle.[23][24]

Honors and awards

  • 1979, Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 1979, the Mineralogical Society of America Award
  • 1987, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
  • 1989, the P. W. Bridgman Award, from the AIRAPT International
  • 1990, the Arthur L. Day Prize, from the United States National Academy of Sciences[25]
  • 1993, Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences[25]
  • 1994, Academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • 1994, Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 1996, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 1996, Fellow of the Geochemical Society
  • 2002, Chinese government Friendship Award[26]
  • 2005, the Balzan Prize for Mineral Physics (with Russell J. Hemley)
  • 2005, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 2005, the Roebling Medal, from the Mineralogical Society of America[27][28]
  • 2007, the Inge Lehmann Medal, from the American Geophysical Union
  • 2008, Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London
  • In 2021, davemaoite, a mineral found only in the deep mantle of the earth, was named after Mao. It is estimated to make 5–7% of the Earth's lower mantle.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Ho-Kwang Mao |". https://honors.agu.org/winners/ho-kwang-mao/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mao, Ho-kwang (July 2016). "High pressure presses ahead" (in en). Nature Materials 15 (7): 694–695. doi:10.1038/nmat4642. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 27329457. Bibcode: 2016NatMa..15..694M. https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4642. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Witze, Alexandra (11 November 2021). "Diamond delivers long-sought mineral from the deep Earth". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03409-2. PMID 34764468. 
  4. ↑ Li, Wei (2010) (in zh). 折戟沉沙: 英雄無淚. 秀威資訊科技股份有限公司. pp. 236–237. ISBN 9789862214282. https://books.google.com/books?id=_xQd9n86-JsC. 
  5. ↑ "军统特务毛森简历 毛森的后代" (in zh). https://ishare.ifeng.com/c/s/7pm8YqxUO6x. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 O’Meara, Sarah (March 2019). "Materials science is helping to transform China into a high-tech economy". Nature 567 (7748): S1–S5. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00885-5. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 30894738. Bibcode: 2019Natur.567S...1O. 
  7. ↑ "Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR)" (in en). https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/china/center-for-high-pressure-science-and-technology-advanced-research-hpstar/5243e7f6140ba09f4a000008. 
  8. ↑ "Ho-Kwang Mao |". https://honors.agu.org/winners/ho-kwang-mao/. 
  9. ↑ Bassett, William A. (2009-06-01). "Diamond anvil cell, 50th birthday". High Pressure Research 29 (2): 163–186. doi:10.1080/08957950802597239. ISSN 0895-7959. Bibcode: 2009HPR....29..163B. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957950802597239. 
  10. ↑ Hazen, Robert M. (1999). The diamond makers (Rev. ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521654742. 
  11. ↑ Mao, H. K.; Bell, P. M. (27 February 1976). "High-Pressure Physics: The 1-Megabar Mark on the Ruby R 1 Static Pressure Scale". Science 191 (4229): 851–852. doi:10.1126/science.191.4229.851. PMID 17730998. Bibcode: 1976Sci...191..851M. 
  12. ↑ Mao, H. K.; Xu, J.; Bell, P. M. (1986). "Calibration of the ruby pressure gauge to 800 kbar under quasi-hydrostatic conditions". Journal of Geophysical Research 91 (B5): 4673. doi:10.1029/jb091ib05p04673. ISSN 0148-0227. Bibcode: 1986JGR....91.4673M. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB091iB05p04673. 
  13. ↑ Li, Bing; Ji, Cheng; Yang, Wenge; Wang, Junyue; Yang, Ke; Xu, Ruqing; Liu, Wenjun; Cai, Zhonghou et al. (2018-02-05). "Diamond anvil cell behavior up to 4 Mbar". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (8): 1713–1717. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721425115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 29432145. Bibcode: 2018PNAS..115.1713L. 
  14. ↑ "How a diamond anvil cell works up to 4 Mbar" (in en). 2018-02-13. https://gl.carnegiescience.edu/news/how-diamond-anvil-cell-works-4-mbar. 
  15. ↑ Mao, H. K.; Jephcoat, A. P.; Hemley, R. J.; Finger, L. W.; Zha, C. S.; Hazen, R. M.; Cox, D. E. (1988). "Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Measurements of Single-Crystal Hydrogen to 26.5 Gigapascals". Science 239 (4844): 1131–1134. doi:10.1126/science.239.4844.1131. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17791973. Bibcode: 1988Sci...239.1131M. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1700584. 
  16. ↑ Mao, Ho-kwang; Hemley, Russell J. (1994-04-01). "Ultrahigh-pressure transitions in solid hydrogen". Reviews of Modern Physics 66 (2): 671–692. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.66.671. ISSN 0034-6861. Bibcode: 1994RvMP...66..671M. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.66.671. 
  17. ↑ Loubeyre, P.; LeToullec, R.; Hausermann, D.; Hanfland, M.; Hemley, R. J.; Mao, H. K.; Finger, L. W. (Oct 1996). "X-ray diffraction and equation of state of hydrogen at megabar pressures". Nature 383 (6602): 702–704. doi:10.1038/383702a0. ISSN 0028-0836. Bibcode: 1996Natur.383..702L. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/383702a0. 
  18. ↑ Ji, Cheng; Li, Bing; Liu, Wenjun; Smith, Jesse S.; Majumdar, Arnab; Luo, Wei; Ahuja, Rajeev; Shu, Jinfu et al. (2019-09-25). "Ultrahigh-pressure isostructural electronic transitions in hydrogen". Nature 573 (7775): 558–562. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1565-9. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31554980. Bibcode: 2019Natur.573..558J. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1565-9. 
  19. ↑ Chu, C. W. (January 2011). "Materials: Cuprates—Superconductors with a Tc up to 164 K". in Rogalla, Horst; Kes, Peter H.. 100 Years of Superconductivity. CRC Press. pp. 244–255. doi:10.1201/b11312-8. ISBN 978-0-429-06586-6. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330888361_Cuprates-Superconductors_with_a_Tc_up_to_164_K. 
  20. ↑ Hu, Qingyang; Kim, Duck Young; Yang, Wenge; Yang, Liuxiang; Meng, Yue; Zhang, Li; Mao, Ho-Kwang (2016-06-08). "FeO2 and FeOOH under deep lower-mantle conditions and Earth's oxygen–hydrogen cycles". Nature 534 (7606): 241–244. doi:10.1038/nature18018. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 27279220. Bibcode: 2016Natur.534..241H. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature18018. 
  21. ↑ Liu, Jin; Hu, Qingyang; Young Kim, Duck; Wu, Zhongqing; Wang, Wenzhong; Xiao, Yuming; Chow, Paul; Meng, Yue et al. (Nov 2017). "Hydrogen-bearing iron peroxide and the origin of ultralow-velocity zones". Nature 551 (7681): 494–497. doi:10.1038/nature24461. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 29168804. Bibcode: 2017Natur.551..494L. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24461. 
  22. ↑ Hu, Qingyang; Kim, Duck Young; Liu, Jin; Meng, Yue; Yang, Liuxiang; Zhang, Dongzhou; Mao, Wendy L.; Mao, Ho-kwang (2017-01-31). "Dehydrogenation of goethite in Earth's deep lower mantle". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (7): 1498–1501. doi:10.1073/pnas.1620644114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28143928. Bibcode: 2017PNAS..114.1498H. 
  23. ↑ Mao, Ho-Kwang; Hu, Qingyang; Yang, Liuxiang; Liu, Jin; Kim, Duck Young; Meng, Yue; Zhang, Li; Prakapenka, Vitali B et al. (2017-09-08). "When water meets iron at Earth's core–mantle boundary". National Science Review 4 (6): 870–878. doi:10.1093/nsr/nwx109. ISSN 2095-5138. 
  24. ↑ Four-Dimensional Model Assimilation of Data. 1991-01-01. doi:10.17226/1830. ISBN 978-0-309-04536-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.17226/1830. 
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Ho-kwang Mao". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/64181.html. 
  26. ↑ Shao, Danlei (25 Dec 2020). "World-Renowned Scientist Ho-Kwang Mao joins Zhejiang University as Honorary Professor". http://earth.zju.edu.cn/2021/0113/c22044a2243653/page.htm. 
  27. ↑ Prewitt, C. T. (1 May 2006). "Presentation of the Roebling Medal for 2005 of the Mineralogical Society of America to Ho-kwang Mao". American Mineralogist 91 (5–6): 965–966. doi:10.2138/am.2006.459. Bibcode: 2006AmMin..91..965P. 
  28. ↑ Mao, H.-k. D. (1 May 2006). "Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Roebling Medal for 2005". American Mineralogist 91 (5–6): 967–968. doi:10.2138/am.2006.460. Bibcode: 2006AmMin..91..967M. 

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