My Research Collaborations with Chinese Scientists over the Past Three Decades

Robert Cooper Liebermann

doi:10.4236/ijg.2021.1210050

Abstract

For more than three decades, I have been fortunate in working with Chinese graduate students and postdoctoral research scientists in our High-Pressure Laboratory at Stony Brook University. These colleagues have conducted a wide variety of experiments at high pressures and temperatures in collaboration with our other students and researchers. These studies utilized transmission electron microscopy, ultrasonic interferometry, X-ray powder diffraction and synchrotron X-radiation to investigate phase transitions, thermal equations of state, sound velocities, atomic diffusion, dislocation dissociation and deviatoric stress in high-pressure apparatus. During this period, I have also visited high-pressure laboratories in the mainland of China and Taiwan on several occasions. The objective of this paper is to relate this history.

Highlights

Over the past decade, I have concentrated on writing papers on my history pursuing a scientific career in mineral physics
For more than three decades, I have been fortunate in working with Chinese graduate students and postdoctoral research scientists in our High-Pressure Laboratory at Stony Brook University
In a important study, Xuebing Wang led an all-Chinese research team to develop an alumina travel time gauge which provides in situ determination of pressure in multi-anvil apparatus for experiments performed without synchrotron X-radiation [44]

Summary

Introduction

I have concentrated on writing papers on my history pursuing a scientific career in mineral physics. Yanbin Wang and Yusheng Zhao came to Stony Brook in the early 1980s, initially to work in the laboratory of Teng-fong Wong and later to study with other faculty [Yusheng with Don Weidner and Yanbin with me] It was my other graduate students Gabriel Gwanmesia and Anne Remsberg who induced Yanbin to join our research group. After completing his doctoral studies in the laboratory of Charlie Prewitt at Stony Brook, Xing Liu joined my research group and pursued a variety of topics, many of which used CaGeO3 as a crystallographic analog of silicates [3] [4]. Over the subsequent 35 years, I have profited from interacting with a series of outstanding Chinese graduate students and postdoctoral research visitors in our High-Pressure Laboratory, including graduate students: Baosheng Li, Yue Meng [advisor Don Weidner], Jun Liu, and students of Baosheng Li: Xuebing Wang, Ting Chen, Xintong Qi, Siheng Wang and Sibo Chen [see Figures 3-6 and list of thesis titles appended below] and postdoctoral research scientists: Ganglin Chen, Jiuhua Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Jennifer Kung and Yongtao Zou [Figures 7-10]

Scientific Studies and Research Advances

Visits of Author to the Mainland of China and Taiwan

Findings

Conclusion