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Overview

Yanbin Wang is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research focus spanning engineering, earth and planetary sciences, and materials science. Their scholarly output includes over 180 publications in these primary fields, with significant contributions in geophysics, materials chemistry, and mechanical engineering as core subfields.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of specialized areas including high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, and earthquake and tectonic studies. Additional themes in their work involve cellular and composite structures, diamond and carbon-based materials research, atomic and subatomic physics research, and advanced materials and mechanics.

Yanbin Wang's publication record features papers in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and High Pressure Research. These platforms represent forums for research dissemination in various aspects of earth sciences, material science, and physics.

Recent papers illustrate Wang's involvement in high-impact studies. Notable recent publications include:

  • Toward an international practical pressure scale: A proposal for an IPPS ruby gauge (IPPS-Ruby2020), 2020, High Pressure Research
  • Hierarchically structured diamond composite with exceptional toughness, 2020, Nature
  • Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond, 2022, Nature
  • Direct Observation of Room-Temperature Dislocation Plasticity in Diamond, 2020, Matter
  • Twisted-layer boron nitride ceramic with high deformability and strength, 2024, Nature

Collaborative efforts are evident through frequent coauthors, including Tony Yu (26 publications), Yintao Ma (15 publications), Libo Zhao (15 publications), Mingzhi Yu (14 publications), and Man Xu (14 publications). This pattern of coauthorship reflects ongoing partnerships within the scientific community focused on related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Nanotwinned diamond with unprecedented hardness and stability

    Quan Huang;Dongli Yu;Bo Xu;Wentao Hu

  • Ultrahard nanotwinned cubic boron nitride.

    Yongjun Tian;Bo Xu;Dongli Yu;Yanming Ma

  • High-pressure creep of serpentine, interseismic deformation, and initiation of subduction.

    Nadege Hilairet;Nadege Hilairet;Nadege Hilairet;Bruno Reynard;Bruno Reynard;Bruno Reynard;Yanbin Wang;Yanbin Wang;Yanbin Wang;Isabelle Daniel;Isabelle Daniel;Isabelle Daniel

  • Intermediate-range order in permanently densified vitreous SiO2 : a neutron-diffraction and molecular-dynamics study

    S. Susman;K. J. Volin;D. L. Price;M. Grimsditch

  • The deformation-DIA: A new apparatus for high temperature triaxial deformation to pressures up to 15 GPa

    Yanbin Wang;William B. Durham;Ivan C. Getting;Donald J. Weidner

  • Laser heated diamond cell system at the Advanced Photon Source for in situ x-ray measurements at high pressure and temperature

    Guoyin Shen;Mark L. Rivers;Yanbin Wang;Stephen R. Sutton

  • Hierarchically structured diamond composite with exceptional toughness

    Yonghai Yue;Yonghai Yue;Yufei Gao;Wentao Hu;Bo Xu

  • Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond

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  • P-V-T equation of state of (Mg, Fe)SiO3 perovskite: constraints on composition of the lower mantle

    Yanbin Wang;Donald J. Weidner;Robert C. Liebermann;Yusheng Zhao

  • Thermal equation of state of CaSiO3 perovskite

    Yanbin Wang;Donald J. Weidner;François Guyot

  • Atomistic insight into viscosity and density of silicate melts under pressure

    Yanbin Wang;Tatsuya Sakamaki;Lawrie B. Skinner;Zhicheng Jing

  • Yield strength at high pressure and temperature

    Donald J. Weidner;Yanbin Wang;Michael T. Vaughan

  • Ultralow viscosity of carbonate melts at high pressures.

    Yoshio Kono;Curtis Kenney-Benson;Daniel Hummer;Hiroaki Ohfuji

  • High pressure effects on the iron–iron oxide and nickel–nickel oxide oxygen fugacity buffers

    Andrew J. Campbell;Lisa Danielson;Kevin Righter;Christopher T. Seagle

  • Strength of diamond.

    Donald J. Weidner;Yanbin Wang;Michael T. Vaughan

  • Stability field and thermal equation of state of ε-iron determined by synchrotron X-ray diffraction in a multianvil apparatus

    Takeyuki Uchida;Yanbin Wang;Mark L. Rivers;Stephen R. Sutton

  • Coexistence of weak ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in the high pressure LiNbO3-type phase of FeTiO3.

    T. Varga;A. Kumar;E. Vlahos;S. Denev

  • Compressed glassy carbon: An ultrastrong and elastic interpenetrating graphene network

    Meng Hu;Julong He;Zhisheng Zhao;Zhisheng Zhao;Timothy A. Strobel

  • Thermal equations of state of the α, β, and ω phases of zirconium

    Yusheng Zhao;Jianzhong Zhang;Cristian Pantea;Jiang Qian

  • Cell assemblies for reproducible multi-anvil experiments (the COMPRES assemblies)

    Kurt D. Leinenweber;James A. Tyburczy;Thomas G. Sharp;Emmanuel Soignard

  • In situ high P‐T X ray diffraction studies on three polymorphs (α, β, γ) of Mg2SiO4

    Y. Meng;D. J. Weidner;G. D. Gwanmesia;R. C. Liebermann

  • In situ measurements of sound velocities and densities across the orthopyroxene → high-pressure clinopyroxene transition in MgSiO3 at high pressure

    Jennifer Kung;Baosheng Li;Takeyuki Uchida;Yanbin Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. Weidner
Donald J. Weidner Stony Brook University
Robert C. Liebermann
Robert C. Liebermann Stony Brook University
Alexandre Schubnel
Alexandre Schubnel École Normale Supérieure
Stephen R. Sutton
Stephen R. Sutton University of Chicago
Kate Scholberg
Kate Scholberg Duke University
D. Karlen
D. Karlen University of Victoria
Takaaki Kajita
Takaaki Kajita University of Tokyo
C. K. Jung
C. K. Jung Stony Brook University
E. Kearns
E. Kearns Boston University
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura Juntendo University

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