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In 1989, he visited Japan Atomic Energy Research
Institute under the STA Scientists
Exchanging Program.
Then he entered the graduate school of Tokyo
Metropolitan University in 1993. From 1996 to 1999, as a
part-time research fellow he worked at the
Advanced Science Research Center, Japan
Atomic Energy Research Institute. From August
1999 to March 2001 he was a cooperative researcher at RIKEN and then worked there as a research
fellow.
Now,
he is a full professor and
member of the Science Committee of IHEP, CAS.
In the past 5 years,
he and his colleagues have performed a series of
experiments to study the fission process of heavy elements and deformation properties of heavy nuclei. The results obtained are: (i)
demonstration of the presence of different independent fission paths,
which is a well-known hypothesis proposed 40 years ago; (ii)
revelation of a novel general property of an atomic nucleus: invariance of the maximum deformation of nuclei. This
is a new regularity for the dynamics of large-scale rearrangement
processes of a nuclear system involving hundreds nucleons; (iii)
new formulas put forward for
the total kinetic energy released in the mass-symmetric and
mass-asymmetric fission processes; (iv) successful interpretation
given for“Bimodal Fission”phenomenon discovered
in the region of heavy nuclei
by American scientists in the mid 80’s. Recently, he and his colleagues, for the first time, successfully synthesized, isolated and characterized the heavy elements encapsulated metallofullerenes. The
results revealed the super atom properties of a molecule of heavy metallic
atoms encaged fullerenes.
He has
published more than
50 papers in the peer reviewed international
scientific journals, and
has about 55
meeting papers. He was awarded a Third National Prize for Science and Technology Progress in 1989;
received a Second
Prize of Excellent Paper awarded
by the Sichuan Provincial Nuclear Society in 1991 and the First Prize of Excellent Paper
awarded by the Nuclear Power Institute
of China.
His
present interests focus on (1) sciences of carbon
nano materials (synthesis, basic properties, and applications); (2) heavy element sciences (synthesis, nuclear and
chemical properties); (3) dynamics of matter transformations; and (4) nuclear
fission (including the application of fission products).
The current research projects
of his group
include: synthesis and isolation
of carbon nano materials;
biomedical application of carbon nano materials; development of new approach for study of carbon nano
materials using nuclear technique as probes; synthesis
of super heavy elements (collaboration with RIKEN), etc.
Telephone/fax: +86-10-8821-2853 (o)
E-mail address：zhaoyuliang@ihep.ac.cn
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