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Jian Zheng is affiliated with the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology in Japan. The research primarily focuses on environmental science with an emphasis on radioactive contamination and transfer, radioactivity and radon measurements, and radioactive element chemistry and processing. The scientist's work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, radiological and ultrasound technology, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and radon measurements
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Nuclear and radioactivity studies
  • Graph theory and applications
  • Nuclear materials and properties
  • Tensor decomposition and applications

Jian Zheng has contributed multiple recent papers to the field. Selected works include:

  • Global fallout Pu isotopes, 137Cs and 237Np records in the sediments of Lake Xingkai and their response to environmental changes in the catchment, 2022, published in CATENA
  • First study of 237Np in Chinese soils: Source, distribution and mobility in comparison with plutonium isotopes, 2020, published in Chemosphere
  • Rapid analysis of 237Np and Pu isotopes in small volume urine by SF-ICP-MS and ICP-MS/MS, 2021, published in Analytica Chimica Acta
  • 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios in water columns from the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea: Transport of Pacific Proving Grounds-derived Pu by ocean currents, 2020, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Distribution and behavior of plutonium isotopes in Western Pacific marginal seas, 2020, published in CATENA

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Guosheng Yang
  • Tatsuo Aono
  • Keiko Tagami
  • Masatoshi Yamada
  • Xiaohua Ma

The most common publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • CATENA
  • Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Isotopic evidence of plutonium release into the environment from the Fukushima DNPP accident.

    Jian Zheng;Keiko Tagami;Yoshito Watanabe;Shigeo Uchida

  • Characteristics of lead isotope ratios and elemental concentrations in PM10 fraction of airborne particulate matter in Shanghai after the phase-out of leaded gasoline

    Jian Zheng;Jian Zheng;Mingguang Tan;Yasuyuki Shibata;Atsushi Tanaka

  • Characteristics of trace elements and lead isotope ratios in PM2.5 from four sites in Shanghai

    Jianmin Chen;Mingguang Tan;Yulan Li;Jian Zheng

  • Release of plutonium isotopes into the environment from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident: what is known and what needs to be known.

    Jian Zheng;Keiko Tagami;Shigeo Uchida

  • Inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometry with a high-efficiency sample introduction system for the determination of Pu isotopes in settling particles at femtogram levels.

    Jian Zheng;Masatoshi Yamada

  • Complexation effect of antimony compounds with citric acid and its application to the speciation of antimony(III) and antimony(V) using HPLC-ICP-MS

    Jian Zheng;Akihiro Iijima;Naoki Furuta

  • Speciation of arsenic in water, sediment, and plants of the Moira watershed, Canada, using HPLC coupled to high resolution ICP–MS

    Jian Zheng;Holger Hintelmann;Brian Dimock;Mark Stephen Dzurko

  • 135Cs/137Cs Isotopic Ratio as a New Tracer of Radiocesium Released from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

    Jian Zheng;Keiko Tagami;Wenting Bu;Wenting Bu;Shigeo Uchida

  • Speciation of selenium compounds with ion-pair reversed-phase liquid chromatography using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry as element-specific detection.

    Jian Zheng;Masaki Ohata;Naoki Furuta;Walter Kosmus

  • 137Cs, 239+240Pu and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios in the surface waters of the western North Pacific Ocean, eastern Indian Ocean and their adjacent seas.

    Masatoshi Yamada;Jian Zheng;Zhong-Liang Wang;Zhong-Liang Wang

  • Determination of 135Cs and 135Cs/137Cs Atomic Ratio in Environmental Samples by Combining Ammonium Molybdophosphate (AMP)-Selective Cs Adsorption and Ion-Exchange Chromatographic Separation to Triple-Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry

    Jian Zheng;Wenting Bu;Wenting Bu;Keiko Tagami;Yasuyuki Shikamori

  • Studies on the speciation of inorganic and organic antimony compounds in airborne particulate matter by HPLC-ICP-MS

    Jian Zheng;Masaki Ohata;Naoki Furuta

  • Vertical Distributions of Plutonium and 137Cs in Lacustrine Sediments in Northwestern China: Quantifying Sediment Accumulation Rates and Source Identifications

    Fengchang Wu;Jian Zheng;Haiqing Liao;Masatoshi Yamada

  • Sediment core record of global fallout and Bikini close-in fallout Pu in Sagami Bay, western Northwest Pacific margin

    Jian Zheng;Masatoshi Yamada

  • Antimony Speciation in Environmental Samples by Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

    Jian Zheng;Masaki Ohata;Naoki Furuta

  • A method of measurement of (239)Pu, (240)Pu, (241)Pu in high U content marine sediments by sector field ICP-MS and its application to Fukushima sediment samples.

    Wenting Bu;Jian Zheng;Qiuju Guo;Tatsuo Aono

  • Ultraviolet absorbance titration for determining stability constants of humic substances with Cu(II) and Hg(II)

    Y.C. Bai;F.C. Wu;C.Q. Liu;W. Li

  • Plutonium Isotopes in Settling Particles: Transport and Scavenging of Pu in the Western Northwest Pacific

    Jian Zheng;Masatoshi Yamada

  • Hyphenation of high performance liquid chromatography with sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the determination of ultra-trace level anionic and cationic arsenic compounds in freshwater fish

    Jian Zheng;Holger Hintelmann

  • Global fallout Pu recorded in lacustrine sediments in Lake Hongfeng, SW China.

    Jian Zheng;Fengchang Wu;Masatoshi Yamada;Haiqing Liao

  • Distribution of Pu isotopes in marine sediments in the Pacific 30 km off Fukushima after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident

    Jian Zheng;Tatsuo Aono;Shigeo Uchida;Jing Zhang

  • Characterization of Pu concentration and its isotopic composition in soils of Gansu in northwestern China.

    Jian Zheng;Masatoshi Yamada;Fengchang Wu;Haiqing Liao

  • Vertical distributions of 239+240Pu activities and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios in sediment cores: implications for the sources of Pu in the Japan Sea.

    Jian Zheng;Masatoshi Yamada

  • Determination of plutonium isotopes in freshwater lake sediments by sector-field ICP-MS after separation using ion-exchange chromatography.

    Haiqing Liao;Jian Zheng;Fengchang Wu;Masatoshi Yamada

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Uchida
Shigeo Uchida National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Fengchang Wu
Fengchang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fengchang Wu
Fengchang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Walter Goessler
Walter Goessler University of Graz
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Makio C. Honda
Makio C. Honda Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Yasuyuki Shibata
Yasuyuki Shibata Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Yasuhito Igarashi
Yasuhito Igarashi Kyoto University
Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University

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