Ding Pan
The University of Chicago
Institute for Molecular Engineering
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Ph.: (773) 834-7392
email: dingpan at uchicago edu

Ding Pan

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

  • Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China (2010)
    Supervisor: Prof. Enge Wang
  • B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China (2005)
    Supervisor: Dr. Mingjun Shi

Professional Affiliations

  • American Physical Society (APS)

Areas of Interest

  • Water under pressure
  • Ice surface
  • Ice pre-melting and melting
  • Density-functional theory
  • Empirical potential

Experience

  • Jan. 2011 to Apr. 2014, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Davis
    Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Galli
  • Sep. 2008 ~ Mar. 2009, Thomas Young Centre Junior Research Fellow, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, UK
    Supervisor: Prof. Angelos Michaelides
  • Sep. 2006 ~ Sep. 2007, Visiting Researcher, Theory Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
    Supervisor: Prof. Angelos Michaelides, Prof. Matthias Scheffler

Publications

  • Eglantine Boulard*, Ding Pan*, Giulia Galli, Zhenxian Liu, Wendy L. Mao
    Tetrahedrally coordinated carbonates in Earth’s lower mantle
    Nat. Commun. 6, 6311 (2015) (*co-first authorship)
  • Ding Pan, Quan Wan and Giulia Galli
    The refractive index and electronic gap of water and ice increase with increasing pressure
    Nat. Commun.5, 3919 (2014)
  • Giulia Galli, Ding Pan
    A closer look at supercritical water
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110, 6250 (2013)
  • Ding Pan, Leonardo Spanu, Brandon Harrison, Dimitri A. Sverjensky and Giulia Galli
    Dielectric properties of water under extreme conditions and transport of carbonates in the deep Earth
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110, 6646 (2013)
  • Zhaoru Sun, Ding Pan, Limei Xu and Enge Wang
    Role of proton ordering in adsorption preference of polar molecule on ice surface
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109, 13177 (2012)
  • S. N. Barman, D. Pan, M. Vosgueritchian, A. P. Zoombelt, G. Galli and Z. Bao
    Dispersion of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Amidine Solvents
    Nanotechnology 23, 344011 (2012)
  • D. E. Starr, D. Pan, J. T. Newberg, M. Ammann, E. G. Wang, A. Michaelides and H. Bluhm
    Acetone adsorption on ice investigated by X-ray spectroscopy and density functional theory
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 19988 (2011)
  • M. Watkins, D. Pan, E. G. Wang, A. Michaelides, J. VandeVondele and B. Slater
    Large variation of vacancy formation energies in the surface of crystalline ice
    Nature Mater. 10, 794 (2011)
  • Ding Pan, Li-Min Liu, Ben Slater, Angelos Michaelides and Enge Wang
    Melting the Ice: On the Relation between Melting Temperature and Size for Nanoscale Ice Crystals
    ACS Nano 5, 4562 (2011)
  • Ding Pan, Li-Min Liu, Gareth A. Tribello, Ben Slater, Angelos Michaelides and Enge Wang Surface energy and surface proton order of the ice Ih basal and prism surfaces
    J. Phys. Condensed Matter 22, 074209 (2010)
  • C. L. Bishop, D. Pan, L. M. Liu, G. Tribello, A. Michaelides, E. G. Wang and B. Slater On thin ice: surface order and disorder during pre-melting
    Faraday Disc. 141, 277 (2009)
  • Ding Pan, Li-Min Liu, Gareth A. Tribello, Ben Slater, Angelos Michaelides and Enge Wang Surface energy and surface proton order of ice Ih
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 155703 (2008)
  • Yang Yuping, Zhang Zhenwei, Pan Ding and Wang Li Influence of Gouy phase shift on THz time-domain spectroscopy
    IRMMW-THz 2006, 547 (2007)