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Personal Profile


Prof. Dr. Yuanfeng Cai

 I was born in Huai'an in P.R. China. 

AREAS OF INTEREST
My interests have been focused in the field of the interfacial reaction between the mineral and fluid, the study and application of clay mineral in environmental harness, and the read of paleoclimate from the view of mineralogy. 
EMPLOYMENT


2013.10-2014.10

2012.01------

Visiting professor at Institute of Mineralogy, University of Muenster, Germany

Professor of Mineralogy; School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.

2009.07------Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German
2007,12-2009, 07
Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German
Institute of Mineralogy, University of Muenster, German
2006,10-2011.12
Associated professor; Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.
2000-2006, 10Lecturer; Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.
1998-2000:
Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.


Courses Taught: Crystallography and Mineralogy; Powder X-ray Diffraction; Fieldtrip in General Geology.
Research Projects: 1) Dissolution Kinetics of Clay Minerals; 2) Weathering Mechanisms of Sulfide Minerals; 3) Interaction between Organic Substance and Montmorillonite; 4) Coloring Mechanism of Pelagic Red Bed.
EDUCATION
Visiting scholar in Teaching Sciences Engineering in English programme in University of
Manchester, U.K. Aug-Dec, 2005
Ph.D., Mineralogy and Crystallography, Nanjing University, China, 2004.
         Dissertation: Dissolution and Adsorption Mechanisms for Palygorskite.
M.S., Mineralogy and Crystallography, Nanjing University, China, 1998.
         Thesis: Microstructural Studies of Potassium Feldspar Using Transmission Electron
                     Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
B.S., Geology, Changchun Geological College, China, 1995.
EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS
Powder and Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction;
Transmission Electron Microscopy;
Infrared;
 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy;
Electron Spin Resonance.
HONORS AND AWARDS
The Excellent Curriculum-Group of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu
The A-level Award for Teaching and Innovating, Nanjing University
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
The member of The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The member of National Geological society

The member of Jiangsu Geological society, China


Educational Background

Work Experience

Academic Service

The member of Specialty Committeesof Mineral, Rock and Materials in Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology, and geochemistry

The member of The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The member of National Geological society of China

The member of Jiangsu Geological society, China

Research Intersets

Teaching

Crystallography and Mineralogy; 

Powder X-ray Diffraction;

Fieldtrip in General Geology;

Advaces in Mineralogy.

Research Projects

Publications

2022

Zhang H., Qian G.J., Cai Y.F. *, Gibson C., Pring A.*. 2022. The crystal chemistry of arsenian pyrites: a Raman spectroscopic study. American Mineralogist,Vol.107: 274-281.

Zhang H., Cai Y.F.*, Sha G., Brugger J., Pring A., Ni P., Qian G.J., Luo Z.J., Zhang Y., Tan W., 2022. Arsenic influence on the distribution and modes of occurrence of gold during the fluid-pyrite interaction: a case study of pyrite from the Qiucun gold deposit, China. American Mineralogist, (preprint)

Rao C., Gu X.P., Wang R.C., Xia Q.K., Cai Y.F., Dong C.W., Hatert F. and Hao Y.T., 2022. Chukochenite (Li0.5Al0.5)Al2O4, a new lithium oxyspinel mineral from Xianghualing skarn, Hunan Province, China. American Mineralogist.

 

2021

Zhang Y., Li W. Q., Cai Y. F*., Qu Y., Pan Y.G., Zhang W.L., Zhao K.D. 2021. Experimental investigation of the reactions between pyrite and aqueous Cu(I) chloride solution at 100–250 °C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 298: 1-20.

Zhi J, Lei R, Chen B, Muhtar MN, Feng Z, Zhang K, Cai Y. F. and Wu C. 2021. Zircon Genesis and Geochronology for the Zhangbaoshan Super-Large Rubidium Deposit in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Implication to Magmatic-Hydrothermal Evolution and Mineralization Processes. Front. Earth Sci. 9:682720. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.682720.

Zhao X., Cai Y.F.*, Pan Y.G., Zhang H. 2021. The study of coloration mechanism of“blue clay”from submarine Brothers Volcano in New Zealand and its geological significance. Geological Review, Vol.67(5): 1332-1344. Doi: 10. 16509/ j.georeview.2021.05.111.

Wei L.H., Cai Y.F., 2021. The applications and prospects of the numerical simulation in researches of Earth Sciences. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, Vol. 41(6): 679-684. doi: 10.16461/j.cnki.1000-4734.2021.41.101 (In Chinese with English abstract)

2020

Zhang, Y., Cai, Y.F.*, Qu, Y., Wang, Q., Gu, L.X. and Li, G.J. 2020. Two stage fluid pathways generated by volume expansion reactions: insights from the replacement of pyrite by chalcopyrite.  https://rdcu.be/caVF1.

Xie Q.F., Cai, Y.F. and Zhai, M.G. 2020. Geochemistry and zircon U–Pb ages of the Neoproterozoic Shimian plutons on the western margin of the Yangtze Block, Sichuan Province. Geological Journal, DOI:10.1002/gj.3969

Liu, P., Kai W, Zhu C., Tang Y., Zhao, W., Cai, Y.F., Cai, J., Ji J.，2020. Hydrothermal synthesis of chlorite from saponite: Mechanisms of smectite chlorite conversion and influence of Mg2+ and Al3+ supplies. Applied Clay Science, 184: 105357.

Fan C.X., Zhang X.K., Pan Y.G. and Cai Y.F.*, 2020. Constraints of climate on the soil forming mechanism by using the full-pattern fitting quantitative calculation: Examples of soil profiles in Shandong and Guangdong Provinces, China. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, Vol. 40(1): 16-24. doi: 10.16461/j.cnki.1000-4734.2019.39.091 (In Chinese with English abstract)

 

2019

Xie, Q. F., Cai, Y.F*., Dong, Y. P., Zhai, M. G., Li. D. P., 2019. Geochemical characteristics of the Permian marine mudstone and constraints on its provenance and paleoenvironment in the Fenghai area, Fujian Province, southeastern China. Petroleum Science, 16(3-4): 527-540.

Cornel E.J. de Ronde, Susan E. Humphris, Tobias W. Höfig, Agnes G. Reyes, and the IODP Expedition 376 Scientists, 2019. Critical role of caldera collapse in the formation of seafloor mineralization: The case of Brothers volcano. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46047.1

Cornel E.J. de Ronde, Susan E. Humphris, Tobias W. Höfig and the IODP Expedition 376 Scientists, 2019. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program.

Zhu Q., Pan Y.G., Zhang X.K. and Cai Y.F.*, 2019. A comparison study on calcined Na-montmorillonite and Ni2+-montmorillonite. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, 39(05): 559-567.doi: 10.16461/j.cnki.1000-4734.2019.39.064. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Xie Q.F., Cai Y.F.*, Dong Y.P. and Li D.P., 2019. Zircon geochronology and Hf isotope compositions of biotite granite in southeast ore section of Zijinshan ore field, Fujian Provinc. Earth Science, 44(4): 1311-1326. Doi.org/10.3799/dqkx.2018.256. (In Chinese with English abstract)

2018

Zhang, H., Cai, Y.F*., Zhang, Y., Ni, P., Li, S.N., Ding, J.Y., Pan, Y.G., Bao, T.. 2018. Mineralogical characteristics of silver minerals from the Dongyang gold deposit, China: Implications for the evolution of epithermal metallogenesis. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 195: 143-156.

Xie, Q.F., Cai, Y.F*., Dong, Y.P., Wu, G.Z., and Zhai, M.G., The magmatism and tectonic significance of Jinningian monzogranite in Wajiao area, western margin of Yangtze Block. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 34(11): 3287-3301. Doi. 10000569/2018/034(11)32870 (In Chinese with English abstract)

Wu M.H., Zhang Y. and Cai Y.F.*, 2018. A Study on genesis of enargite from Zijinshan Copper Deposit, Fujian Province, China. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, 38(2): 41-49. doi: 10.16461 /j.cnki.1000.4734.2018.005 (In Chinese with English abstract)

Shi C., Lu X.C., Cai Y.F. and He H.P. 2018. Apatite formation from calcite under hydrothermal environment: transforming mechanisms and influencing factors. Acta Mineralogica Sinica, 38(2): 58-63. doi: 10.16461 /j.cnki.1000-4734.2018.007 (In Chinese with English abstract)

Bektemirova T., Bakirov, A., Hu, R.Z., He, H.P., Cai, Y.F., Tan W., Chen, A.Q. 2018. Mineralogical evolution of the paleogene formations in the Kyzyltokoy basin, Kyrgyzstan: implications for the formation of glauconite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 66 (1), 43-60. DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2018.064086

Kai W., Cai Y.F., Cai J.G. and Ji J.F., 2018.Comparative Study of the Adsorption of L-lysine on the Different Clay Minerals. Geological Journal of China Universities, Vol. 24 (5): 671-680. DOI: 10.16108/j.issn1006-7493.2018021 (In Chinese with English abstract)

2017

Zhang, X.K., Cai, Y.F*., Jiang, D.M., Zhang, Y., Pan, Y.G., Bai, L.J. (2017) an experimental study on transforming montmorillonite to glauconite: implications for the process of glauconitization. Clays and Clay Minerals, 65 (6), 431-448. DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2017.064081

Hu, X.X., Cai, Y.F*., Zhang, Y., (2017) Hydrothermal alteration of arsenopyrite by acidic solutions, Applied Geochemistry, 77:102-115. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.08.009.

Maidina N., Maierdan T., Cai, Y.F.*, Açıkgöz, M., Wang, H.T.*, Pan, Y.G., Zhang, X.K., Ma, X.M. 2017. Spectroscopic Study of Chromium-adsorbed Montmorillonite. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 173: 114-121. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2016.08.045

Xie Q.F., Cai Y.F.*, Dong Y.P., Li D.P. and Lin R.F. 2017. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf Isotopic compositions of Yanshanian granites in the Shanghang area, Fujian Province. Acta Geologica Sinica, 91(10): 2212-2230. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Zhang X.K., Cai Y.F.*, Bai L.J. and Pan Y.G. 2017. The experimental study of mineral transforming from montmorillonite to glauconite. Geological Review, 63(2): 471-483. doi: 10.16509/j.georeview.2017.02.01. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Bei L.J., Cai Y.F.* and Pan Y.G., 2017. The comparison study on calcined Ca-montmorillonite before and after Cr3+ exchanged. ACTA Mineralogica Sinica. 37(1-2)：177-187. doi: 10.16461 /j.cnki.1000-4734.2017.01.022. (In Chinese with English abstract)


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