Papers

Submitted Manuscripts

1. L. Li, J. Dong (Submitted). Do damaging earthquakes worldwide respond to lake storage changes?

2. J. Dong, L. P. Stixrude, P. D. Asimow, J. Li (Submitted). Metal saturation and the redistribution of hydrogen in Earth’s mantle.

3. J. D. Hernandez-Montenegro, A. Saez-Uribe, J. Dong, P. D. Asimow. (Submitted). No liquid water on Mars without active magmatism.

4. R. A. Fischer, T.-A. Suer, J. T. Gu, E. S. Bullock, A. J. Akey, K. K. M. Lee, J. Sheehan, M.J. Walter, J. Dong (submitted). Palladium partitioning at Earth’s core formation conditions reveals late accretion paradox.

5. J. T. Gu, T.-A, Suer, E. Bullock, K. K. M. Lee, F. Nimmo, S. Mukhopadhyay, J. Dong, M.J. Walter, R.A. Fischer (Submitted). Multi-chronometer constraints on the timing of volatile loss from Earth and its precursors.

6. J. ZhangZhou, J. Dong, S. Harðardóttir, K. Itano, M. G. Jackson, J. Lei, W.-R. Li6, C.-T. Liu, J. Liu, X.-M. Liu, W. F. McDonough, M. Petrelli, B. Qin, R. Tamblyn, S. Tommasini, J. Warren, W. M. White, Y. Yang, C.-Y. Ye. (Submitted). Deep earth geochemistry expert data portfolio.

7. R. Iizuka-Oku, R. A. Fischer, J. T. Gu, J. Dong, J. Sheehan, G.-D. Mardaru, S. Chariton, V. Prakapenka, H. Sumino, Y. Takahashi (Submitted). Incorporation of heavy noble gases into potassium-rich silicate under lower mantle conditions.

8. Q. Yuan, P. D. Asimow, M. Gurnis, P. Antoshechkina, J. Dong (Submitted). IGyTheM: Integrating geodynamics with thermodynamics using machine learning.

Peer-reviewed Publications

(*student mentored)

1. J. Dong, G.-D. Mardaru*, P. D. Asimow, L. P. Stixrude, R. A. Fischer (2025). Structure and melting of Fe, MgO, SiO₂, and MgSiO₃ in planets: Database, inversion, and phase diagram. The Planetary Science Journal. [Publisher's version] [arXiv] [Database]

2. J. Dong, R. A. Fischer, L. P. Stixrude, M. C. Brennan, K. Daviau, T.-A. Suer, K. M. Turner, Y. Meng, V. B. Prakapenka (2025). Nonlinearity of the post-spinel transition and its expression in slabs and plumes worldwide. Nature Communications. [Publisher's version] [arXiv] [Code] [News article from Science] [News article from Phys.org]

3. J. Dong (2023). A data science approach to water storage capacity in rocky planet mantles: Earth, Mars, and exoplanets. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (矿物岩石地球化学通报). [Publisher's version] [arXiv]

4. J. Dong, R. A. Fischer, L. P. Stixrude, C. R. Lithgow-Bertelloni, Z. T. Eriksen, M. C. Brennan (2022). Water storage capacity of the Martian mantle through time. Icarus. [Publisher's version] [arXiv]

5. J. Dong, R. A. Fischer, L. P. Stixrude, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2021). Constraining the volume of Earth's early oceans with a temperature-dependent mantle water storage capacity model. AGU Advances. [Publisher's version] [News article from Science] [News article from Harvard Gazette] [News article from SYFY] [Editor's highlight from Eos]

6. K. Daviau, R. A. Fischer, M. C. Brennan, J. Dong, T.-A. Suer, S. Couper, Y. Meng, V. B. Prakapenka (2020). Equation of state of TiN at high pressures and temperatures: A possible host for nitrogen in planetary mantles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. [Publisher's version]

7. J. Li, F. Zhu, J. Liu, J. Dong (2020). Reactive preservation of carbonate in Earth's mantle transition zone. Carbon in Earth's Interior (AGU Geophysical Monograph 249, Chapter 15). [Publisher's version]

8. D. Zhou, J. Dong, Y. Si, F. Zhu, J. Li (2020). Melting curve of potassium chloride from in situ ionic conduction measurements. Minerals. [Publisher's version]

9. F. Zhu, J. Li, J. Liu, J. Dong, Z. Liu (2019). Metallic iron limits silicate hydration of Earth's transition zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. [Publisher's version]

10. J. Dong, J. Li, F. Zhu (2019). Wetting behavior of iron-carbon melt in silicates at mid-mantle pressures with implications for the Earth's deep carbon cycle. Frontiers in Earth Science. [Publisher's version]

11. J. Dong, J. Li, F. Zhu, Z. Li, R. Farawi (2019). Melting curve minimum of barium carbonate BaCO₃ near 5 GPa. American Mineralogist. [Publisher's version] [Author's copy]

Other

1. M. Hofstadter, R. Helled, D. Stevenson and B. Ehlmann (with contributions from J. Dong) (2024). The Mysterious Interior of Uranus. Keck Institute for Space Studies. [Publisher's version] [arXiv]

2. J. Dong (2024). Modeling the Early Earth: Idealization and Its Aims. EGU GeoLog. [Part I] [Part II] [Author's copy]