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Biography

Jiang Zhonghong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Guangzhou. He graduated from the South China Institute of Technology in 1953.

Jiang has served at the Shanghai Optical Precision Machinery Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for several years. He has primarily devoted himself to research in the field of optical materials. Jiang has successfully developed three kinds of Nd glass materials used in powerful lasers: silicate Nd glass used in super energy laser systems and Type II and III phosphate Nd glass used in pre-research devices of high power laser systems.

Jiang based his theoretical research on formation features of blending bond type glass, and took a lead in developing the computing method of phase diagram thermodynamics to realize semi-quantitative forecasts for glass formation zones. He also adopted continuous phase variation methods deducing asymmetric non-dissolved zones, and studied phase diagram models of glass structure. Jiang introduced the theory in which glass is composed of the mixture of the most adjacent and similar molten compounds, which can be used to calculate the proportion between the radical and the boron coordination number of glass. He applied thermodynamic reaction criterion to the research of clarifying platinum mechanisms. Through predicted calculations, he discovered suitable technological conditions.

Jiang Zhonghong was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.