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Hao, M.*, Murakami, M., Saha, P., & Guignot, N. (2026). Depletion of davemaoite in Earth’s ambient lower mantle. Nature Communications.

Su, W., Zhou, W. Y., Hu, J., Hao, M., Pommier, A., & Zhang, J. S.* (2026). Sound velocities and structural transitions of endmember and Fe, Al, Mg, Ti‐bearing CaSiO3 glasses up to 23 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(2), e2025JB032766.

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Zhang, Z.*, Luo, H., Hao, M., & Deng, J.* (2025). Regimes of element transfer between Earth's core and basal magma ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(7), e2025JB031357.

Luu, A., Zhou, W. Y.*, Zhong, X., Hao, M., Dera, P., & Zhang, J. S.* (2025). High P-T Single-Crystal Elasticity of Zircon by Brillouin Spectroscopy. American Mineralogist.

Hao, M.*, Pommier, A.*, Codillo, E. A., Walter, M. J., Cross, A. J., Hrubiak, R., ... & Backhouse, N. (2024). Electrical conductivity and sound velocities of talc under high pressure and high temperature conditions and application to the subducting Cocos plate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(11), e2024JB029824.

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Hao, M.*, Zhou, W. Y., Hrubiak, R., Kenney-Benson, C., Kavanagh, J. L., Davis, W., & Zhang, J. S.* (2024). The ultralow viscosity of volatile-rich kimberlite magma: Implications for the water content of primitive kimberlite melts. Science Advances, 10(36), eado8550.

Zhou, W. Y.*, Hao, M., Hrubiak, R., Kenney-Benson, C., & Zhang, J. S.* (2024). Migration and accumulation of hydrous mantle incipient melt in the Earth's asthenosphere: Constraints from in-situ falling sphere viscometry measurements. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 641, 118833.

Hao, M., Zhou, W. Y., Dera, P., Schmandt, B., Zhang, D., & Zhang, J. S. (2024). Fast seismic anomalies under continents explained by the delaminated lower continental crust—Implications from high pressure‐temperature elasticity of jadeite. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(9), e2023GL104797.

Zhou, W. Y., Hao, M., Zhang, D., Dera, P., Charin, S., & Zhang, J. S. (2024). High P‐T sound velocities of amphiboles: Implications for low‐velocity anomalies in metasomatized upper mantle. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(5), e2023GL106583.

Nellessen, M.A., Gasda, P., Crossey, L., Peterson, E., Ali, A., Zhang, J., Zhou, W., Hao, M., Spilde, M., Newsom, H. and Lanza, N., (2023). Boron adsorption in clay minerals: Implications for martian groundwater chemistry and boron on Mars. Icarus, p.115599.

Zhou, W. Y., Olson, P. L., Shearer, C. K., Agee, C. B., Townsend, J. P., Hao, M., ... & Zhang, J. S. (2022). High pressure-temperature phase equilibrium studies on Martian basalts: Implications for the failure of plate tectonics on Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 594, 117751.

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Zhang, J. S., Irifune, T., Hao, M., Zhang, D., Hu, Y., Tkachev, S., ... & Prakapenka, V. (2021). Grain size dependent high-pressure elastic properties of ultrafine micro/nanocrystalline grossular. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-11.

Hou, M., Zhou, W. Y., Hao, M., Hua, F. T. S., Kung, J., Zhang, D., ... & Zhang, J. S. (2022). Effect of structural water on the elasticity of orthopyroxene. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, 107(4), 703-708.

Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., Zhou, W.-Y., & Wang, Q. (2021). Seismic visibility of eclogite in the Earth’s upper mantle – implications from high pressure-temperature single-crystal elastic properties of omphacite. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(5), e2021JB021683.

Zhou, W. Y., Ren, Z., Zhang, J. S., Chen, B., Hao, M., Ohuchi, T., ... & Schmandt, B. (2021). The Water-Fe-Pressure dependent single-crystal elastic properties of wadsleyite: Implications for the seismic anisotropy in the upper Mantle Transition Zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 565, 116955.

Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., Pierotti, C. E., Zhou, W. Y., Zhang, D., & Dera, P. (2020). The seismically fastest chemical heterogeneity in the Earth's deep upper mantle—implications from the single-crystal thermoelastic properties of jadeite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543, 116345.

Mans, W., Zhang, J. S., Hao, M., Smyth, J. R., Zhang, D., Finkelstein, G. J., & Dera, P. (2019). Hydrogen Effect on the Sound Velocities of Upper Mantle Omphacite. Minerals, 9(11), 690.

Hao, M., Pierotti, C. E., Tkachev, S., Prakapenka, V., & Zhang, J. S. (2019). The single-crystal elastic properties of the jadeite-diopside solid solution and their implications for the composition-dependent seismic properties of eclogite. American Mineralogist, 104(7), 1016-1021.

Zhang, J. S., Hao, M., Ren, Z., & Chen, B. (2019). The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of cubic high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure. Applied Physics Letters, 114(19), 191903.

Hao, M., Zhang, J. S., Pierotti, C. E., Ren, Z., & Zhang, D. (2019). High‐pressure single‐crystal elasticity and thermal equation of state of omphacite and their implications for the seismic properties of eclogite in the Earth's interior. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(3), 2368-2377.