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Clean Lab

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®.

Latest Papers

 

  1. 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
  2. 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, 646, 62-67. https://rdcu.be/eFrpU
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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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