Wang thinks that the earliest prototype of hotpot is ‘You Pan Ding’, which existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty between 1046 BC and 771 BC. It translates to ‘Ding with a tray’ - ‘Ding ...

Journal Reference: Nore Stolte, Rui Hou, Ding Pan. Nanoconfinement facilitates reactions of carbon dioxide in supercritical water. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33696-w ...

The research, led by Prof. PAN Ding, looked into the dissolution of CO 2 in water, which has significant implications on ways to reduce the return of carbon from underground to the atmosphere.