Research in the Yin lab utilizes an approximately 600 sq. ft. Class-10/100 clean room housed within the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis. Completed in 2011, the clean lab contains a dedicated portion for isotope cosmochemistry research. The clean lab facility contains nine PicoTrace® Class-10 clean workstations and two 3-story sample dry down systems. Ultrapure acids are prepared using both Savillex and PicoTrace distillation systems and ultrapure water is provided using a Milli-Q water purification system from Millipore®.
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- M-H. Zhu, M. Ding, M. Wieczorek, A. Morbidelli, L. Y. Xu, and Q.-Z. Yin (2025) Obliteration of ancient impact basins on the Moon by viscous relaxation. Nature Astronomy 9, 333–346 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02444-z
- T. Iizuka, T. Shibuya, T. Hayakawa, T. Yokoyama, I. Gautam, M. K. Haba, K. T. M. Ito, Y. Hibiya, A. Yamaguchi, Y. Abe, J. Aléon, C. M. O’D. Alexander, S. Amari, Y. Amelin, K. Bajo, M. Bizzarro, A. Bouvier, R. W. Carlson, M. Chaussidon, B.-G. Choi, N. Dauphas, A. M. Davis, T. Di Rocco, W. Fujiya, R. Fukai, H. Hidaka, H. Homma, P. Hoppe, G. R. Huss, K. Ichida, T. R. Ireland, A. Ishikawa, S. Itoh, N. Kawasaki, N. T. Kita, K. Kitajima, T. Kleine, S. Komatani, A. N. Krot, M.-C. Liu, Y. Masuda, M. Morita, K. Motomura, F. Moynier, I. Nakai, K. Nagashima, A. Nguyen, L. Nittler, M. Onose, A. Pack, C. Park, L. Piani, L. Qin, S. Russell, N. Sakamoto, M. Schönbächler, L. Tafla, H. Tang, K. Terada, Y. Terada, T. Usui, S. Wada, M. Wadhwa, R. J. Walker, K. Yamashita, Q.-Z. Yin, S. Yoneda, E. D. Young, H. Yui, A.-C. Zhang, T. Nakamura, H. Naraoka, T. Noguchi, R. Okazaki, K. Sakamoto, H. Yabuta, M. Abe, A. Miyazaki, A. Nakato, M. Nishimura, T. Okada, T. Yada, K. Yogata, S. Nakazawa, T. Saiki, S. Tanaka, F. Terui, Y. Tsuda, S. Watanabe, M. Yoshikawa, S. Tachibana, H. Yurimoto (2025) The fate of water on carbonaceous asteroids inferred from hafnium isotopes in Ryugu samples. Nature, https://rdcu.be/eFrpU
- Y. Amelin and Q.-Z. Yin (2025) Recent progress and future prospects of the early solar system chronology. National Science Review 12, 9, 1-22 https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf281
- Y. Amelin, Q.-Z. Yin, P. Koefoed, R. Merle1, Y. Hibiya, M. H. Huyskens, T. Iizuka, J. A. Cartwright (2025) Fractionation of radiogenic Pb isotopes in meteorites and their components induced by acid leaching. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 393, 52-69 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.11.008
- Y. Amelin and Q.-Z. Yin (2024) How young is volcanism on the Moon? Science, 385, 1049 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9336
- Y. K. Di, Q.-Z. Yin, F. L. H. Tissot, Y. Amelin (2024) Role of natural isotopic fractionation in isotope geo- and cosmo-chronology: A theoretical investigation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 379, 1–22. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703724003107?via%3Dihub
- J. L. Jiang, X. Y. Zou, R. N. Mitchell, Y. G. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Q.-Z. Yin, W. Yang, X. Q. Zhou, H. Wang, C. Spencer, X. C. Shan, S. T. Wu, G. M. Li, K. Z. Qin, and X.-H. Li (2024) Sediment subduction in Hadean revealed by machine learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 121, 30, e2405160121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405160121
- F. Spitzer, T. Kleine, C. Burkhardt, T. Hopp, T. Yokoyama, Y. Abe, J. Aléon, C. M. O’D. Alexander, S. Amari, Y. Amelin, K. Bajo, M. Bizzarro, A. Bouvier, R. W. Carlson, M. Chaussidon, B.-G. Choi, N. Dauphas, A. M. Davis, T. Di Rocco, W. Fujiya, R. Fukai, I. Gautam, M. K. Haba, Y. Hibiya, H. Hidaka, H. Homma, P. Hoppe, G. R. Huss, K. Ichida, T. Iizuka, T. R. Ireland, A. Ishikawa, S. Itoh, N. Kawasaki, N. T. Kita, K. Kitajima, S. Komatani, A. N. Krot, M.-C. Liu, Y. Masuda, M. Morita, F. Moynier, K. Motomura, I. Nakai, K. Nagashima, D. Nesvorný, A. Nguyen, L. Nittler, M. Onose, A. Pack, C. Park, L. Piani, L. Qin, S. S. Russell, N. Sakamoto, M. Schiller, M. Schönbächler, L. Tafla, H. Tang, K. Terada, Y. Terada, T. Usui, S. Wada, M. Wadhwa, R. J. Walker, K.Yamashita, Q.-Z. Yin, S. Yoneda, E. D. Young, H. Yui, A.-C. Zhang, T. Nakamura, H. Naraoka, T. Noguchi, R. Okazaki, K. Sakamoto, H. Yabuta, M. Abe, A. Miyazaki, A. Nakato, M. Nishimura, T. Okada, T. Yada, K. Yogata, S. Nakazawa, T. Saiki, S. Tanaka, F. Terui, Y. Tsuda, S.Watanabe, M. Yoshikawa, S, Tachibana, H. Yurimoto (2024) The Ni isotopic composition of Ryugu reveals a common accretion region for carbonaceous chondrites. Science Advances 10, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp2426
- E. Krestianinov, Y. Amelin, Q.-Z. Yin, P. Cary, M. H. Huyskens, A. Miller, S. Dey, Y. Hibiya, H. Tang, E. D. Young, A. Pack, and T. Di Rocco (2023) Igneous meteorites suggest Aluminium-26 heterogeneity in the early Solar Nebula. Nature Communications. 14:4940 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40026-1
- W. Y. Liu, Y. G. Zhang, F. L. H. Tissot, G. Avice, Z. L. Ye, and Q.-Z. Yin (2023) I/Pu reveals Earth mainly accreted from volatile-poor differentiated planetesimals. Science Advances 9, eadg921 https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adg9213
- Q. Zhou, Y. Liu, S. Yang, Q.-L. Li, Y. Chen, G. Zhang, H. Zhang, B. Liu, D. Liu, J. Liu, F.-Y. Wu, X.-H. Li, Q.-Z. Yin, C. L. Li (2023) The youngest lunar zircon reveals an extremely fractionated nature of Chang’e-5 basalt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 358, 126-133 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703723004167
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