金子梁 (JIN Ziliang)
Assistant Professor
State Key Lab of Lunar and Planetary Science
Macau University of Science and Technology
Macau, China
Research Interests
- Derivation and migration of the primordial materials in the solar system
- Planet differentiation processes
- Space process laboratory simulations
Fund
- FDCT (2021-2023) – PI: A comprehensive study of mineral disequilibrium in the achondrite EC002.
- FDCT (2023-2024) – PI: Process development: ion-impanated reference materials used for in-situ analysis.
- NSFC (2023-2025) – PI: A comprehensive study of the hydrogen implantation-diffusion process that hydrates the silicates in the solar nebula.
Professional Experiences
Managing: (1) Laser ablation-inductive coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), GeoLasHD + Agilent 7900; (2) Ion implanter
Simulating the hydration processes of the early solar system materials via ion implantation.
Research on the loss of volatile elements of the Moon.
Since 2020, Macao University of Science and Technology, China
Sustaining laboratory services: daily checking and maintaining, ordering and purchasing lab items, scheduling and executing.
Development of key protocols for high-precision H measurement using the NanoSIMS 50L at ASU.
Study of the hydrogen isotope systematics of nominally anhydrous minerals in the meteorite and asteroid samples by using SIMS instruments (NanoSIMS 50L and IMS 6f). (PI: Maitrayee Bose; Collaborator: Richard Hervig)
Development of the Duoplasmatron and Cs ion sources on SIMS instruments. (Collaborator: Peter Williams)
Assisting in building a Class 10000 clean lab at ASU (PI: Maitrayee Bose).
Assisting in tuning and operating the NanoSIMS 50L:
Water contents and H isotopic compositions in NAMs from impacted Martian meteorites (PI: Anne Peslier).
Li diffusion in zircon (PI: Christy Till).
Searching and imaging of presolar grains in meteorites (PI: Maitrayee Bose).
C, O, and H isotopes in carbonates from carbonaceous chondrites (PI: Myriam Telus).
C-N isotopic distribution in bee’s brain (PI: Tyler Quigley).
2017-2020, Arizona State University, Arizona, U.S.
SIMS reference material development: project planning and executing on synthetic silicate glass, synthetic olivine, and natural hornblende. (PI: Michael Wiedenbeck)
Defining SIMS primary beam sputtering behaviors. (PI: Michael Wiedenbeck)
The micro-analytical isotopic homogeneity characterization of existing certified O and C isotopic reference materials. (PI: Michael Wiedenbeck)
2015-2017, GeoForschung Zentrum, Potsdam, Germany
Study of metallogeny of Jinling skarn-type iron deposit in the North China Craton: Based on EMPA, ICPMS and LA-ICPMS analyses on the igneous rocks and altered minerals from Jinling skarn-type iron deposit in the North China Craton. (PI: Zhaochong Zhang)
Study of the growth and evolution of continental crust in Central Tianshan area, Xinjiang, Northwest China: by field mapping and whole rock geochemistry and mineral chemistry analyses on igneous rocks. (PI: Zhaochong Zhang)
2012-2015, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
Publications
Selected papers
Z. Jin*, T. Hou, M-H Zhu, Y. Zhang, O. Namur, Late-stage microstructures in Chang'E-5 basalt and implications for the evolution of lunar ferrobasalt. American Minerologist. [link]
Z. Jin*, Y. Zhang, M. Bose, S. Glynn, F. Couffignal (2024),Petrogenesis of Erg Chech 002 Achondrite and Implications for an Altered Magma Ocean. The Astrophysical Journal, 2, 244.[link]
Z. Jin*, M. Bose, T. Lichtenberg, G. Mulders (2021), New evidence for wet accretion of inner solar system planetesimals from meteorites Chelyabinsk and Benenitra. The Planetary Science Journal, 2, 244.[link]
Q. Xie, Z. Zhang*, Z. Jin*, M. Santosh, L. Han, K. Wang, P. Zhao, H. He (2021), The high-grade Fe skarn deposit of Jinling, North China Craton: Insights into hydrothermal iron mineralization. Ore Geology Reviews, 138, 104395.[link]
Z. Jin* and M. Bose (2021), Hydration of Nebular Minerals through the Implantation–Diffusion Process. The Astrophysical Journal, 913, 116. [link]
Z. Jin* and M. Bose (2019), New clues to ancient water on Itokawa. Science Advances, eaav8106.[link]
Z. Jin, Z. Zhang*, M. Santosh, L. Han (2018), Occurrence and chemical compositions of amphiboles in altered dioritic rocks of Laiwu skarn-type iron deposit in West Shandong area, China. Resource Geology, 68(4), 425-445.[link]
Z. Jin, Z. Zhang*, M. Santosh, T. Hou, L. Han (2015), Genetic relationship of high-Mg dioritic pluton to iron mineralization: A case study from the Jinling skarn-type iron deposit in the North China Craton. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 113, 957-979.[link]
Z. Jin, Z. Zhang*, M. Santosh, H. Huang, T. Hou, Y. Ma (2014), Geochronology and geochemistry of the Airikenqiken granite, Central Tianshan Terrane, Xinjiang, China: implications for petrogenesis and continental growth. International Geology Review, 56, 801-822.[link]
Note: * corresponding author
News
- 2022-3 Our ion implantor has been well installed in A101 at M.U.S.T.!
- 2023-1 Our ion implantor arrived!
- 2022-12 My first Postdoc Dr. Xiandi Zeng joint my group.
- 2022-1 Happy New Year!
- 2021-12 Our new paper was just published in the Planetary Science Journal. Check it out here.
- 2021-11 I got a new grant from Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT).
- 2021-11 Our new paper is out in Ore Geology Reviews. Check it out here.
- 2021-10 The very first manuscript including the data obtained by our Laser ablation ICP-MS has been submitted. Finger crossed!
- 2021-10 Chang'E-5 lunar samples arrive in our SKLplanets. Dr. Zhu Menghua received a small bottle of lunar soil and Dr. Li Shaolin got a piece of lunar basalts.
- 2021-6 Our new paper was just published in the Astrophysical Journal. Check it out here.
- 2022-10 Just start my new position as an assistant professor at Macau University of Science and Technology.
- 2022-1 I left the U.S. on 19th. Many thanks to my postdoc supervisor Dr. Maitrayee Bose. Professors Peter Williams and Richard Hervig have also helped and taught me so much! I really had a great time in last 3 years at ASU. I will miss you all there. Take care!