Yingbin Ge

Video Tutorials for Physical and Computaional Chemistry: Physical Chemistry Tutorial

Education:

• 2004 - Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Hawaii; Advisor: Professor John D. Head
• 2005 - M.S. Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii
• 1995 - B.S. Polymer Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience:

• Sept. 2019 - Present, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Central Washington University
• Sept. 2008 - Sept. 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Central Washington University
• Jul. 2005 - Jul. 2008, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University; Advisor: Professor Mark S. Gordon
• Jan. 2005 - Jun. 2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii

Research Interests:

• Theoretical study of nano-catalysis of transition metals.
• Theoretical investigation of the chemical vapor deposition processes of inorganic materials.
• Theoretical study of the photoluminescence of Si nanoclusters.
• Theoretical investigation of astrochemical species and reactions.
• Development of efficient global optimization algorithms.
• Development of semiempirical and empirical computational chemistry methods.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed

• Stephen D. Bradford, Y. Ge, Jie Zhang, Marisol Trejo, Dale Tronrud and Wei Kong*, Electron Diffraction of 1,4-dichlorobenzene Embedded in Superfluid Helium Droplets, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, pp 27722-27730, 2022. DOI: 10.1039/D2CP04492G
• Arthur M. Halpern*, Y. Ge, and Eric D. Glendening, Visualizing Solutions of the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation Using a Finite Difference Method, Journal of Chemical Education, 99, pp 3053–3060, 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00557. 
• Y. Ge*, Samuel L. Montgomery, and Gabriel L. Borrello, Can Cp Be Less Than Cv? ACS Omega, 6, pp 11083–11085, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c01208.
• Y. Ge, Anna Le, Gregory J. Marquino, Phuc Q. Nguyen, Kollin Trujillo, Morgan Schimelfenig, and Ashley Noble, Tools for prescreening the most active sites on Ir and Rh clusters toward C-H bond cleavage of ethane: NBO charges and Wiberg bond indexes, ACS Omega, 4, pp 18809-18819, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02813.
• Y. Ge, Determining the Atomic Term Symbols of the d2 and f2 Electron Configurations in Minutes or Seconds with Scientific Rigor, The Chemical Educator, 24, pp 118-119, 2019.
• A. Le, G. J. Marquino, and Y. Ge, An Inquiry-Based Molecular Modeling Laboratory for Students to Discover VSEPR Theory and Resonance Structures, Chemical Educator, 24, 59-61, 2019.
• Y. Ge, On Teaching Molecular Term Symbols: From the Atomic Term Symbols in a Two-Dimensional World to the Molecular Term Symbols in a Three-Dimensional World, Journal of Chemical Education, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00334, 2018.
• Y. Ge, Comments on “Quirks of Stirling’s Approximation”, Journal of Chemical Education, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00658, 2018.
• Y. Ge, Agreement, Complement, and Disagreement to “Why Are Some Reactions Slower at Higher Temperatures?”, Journal of Chemical Education, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00208, 2017.
• Y. Ge, Let Students Derive, by Themselves, Two-Dimensional Atomic and Molecular Quantum Chemistry from Scratch, Journal of Chemical Education, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00572, 2016.
• Y. Ge, Hao Jiang, Russell Kato, and Prasuna Gummagatta, Size and Site Dependence of the Catalytic Activity of Iridium Clusters toward Ethane Dehydrogenation, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 120, 9500-9508, 2016.
• Y. Ge, D. DePrekel, K.-T. Lam, K. Ngo, and P. Vo, Assessing density functionals for the prediction of thermochemistry of Ti-O-Cl species, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, 14, Art. No. 1550055, pp 1-18, 2015.
• Y. Ge, Robert C. Rittenhouse, J. C. Buchanan, and B. Livingston, Using a spreadsheet to solve the Schrödinger equations for the ground electronic state and the two lowest excited states of H2, Journal of Chemical Education, 91, 853-859, 2014. 
• T. C. Shore, D. Mith, D. DePrekel, S. McNall, and Y. Ge, A B3LYP study on the C–H activation in propane by neutral and +1 charged low-energy platinum clusters with 2–6 atoms, Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, 109, 315-333, 2013.
• Y. Ge and T. C. Shore, Theoretical calculations on the hydrogen elimination of ethene with chemical accuracy, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 978, 57-66, 2011.
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 3. Reaction Rate Constant Calculations, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 2384-2392, 2010.
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, P. Piecuch, M. Wloch, and J. R. Gour, Breaking bonds of open-shell species with the restricted open-shell size extensive left eigenstate completely renormalized coupled-cluster method , Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 112, 11873-11884, 2008.
• Y. Shiraishi, D. Robinson, Y. Ge, J. D. Head, Low Energy Structures of Ligand Passivated Si Nanoclusters: Theoretical Investigation of Si2L4 and Si10L16 (L=H, CH3, OH and F) , Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 1819-1824, 2008.
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, and P. Piecuch, Breaking Bonds with the Left Eigenstate Completely Renormalized Coupled-Cluster Method, Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, article #174106, pp1-6, 2007.
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 2. Reaction Paths and Transition States, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 1475-1486, 2007.
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 1. Thermodynamics, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 1462-1474, 2007.
• Y. Ge, K. Olsen, R. I. Kaiser, and J. D. Head, The Potential Energy Surface of the H2O2 System, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, Volume 855, ASTROCHEMISTRY: From Laboratory Studies to Astronomical Observations, 4A, 253-259, 2006.
• J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Theoretical Identification of the Lowest Energy SixLy Clusters Using Genetic Algorithms, Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences, 4A, 1014-1017, 2005.
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Ligand Effects on SixLy Cluster Structures with L = H and F, Molecular Physics, 103, 1035-1045, 2005.
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Fast Global Optimization of SixHy: New mutation operators in the cluster genetic algorithm, Chemical Physics Letters, 398, 107-112, 2004.
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of H-Passivated Si Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via the GAM1 Semiempirical Method, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108, 6025-6034, 2004.
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of SixHy Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via an Iteratively Parametrized Semiempirical Method, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 95, 617-626, 2003.
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of H-Passivated Si Clusters with a Genetic Algorithm, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106, 6997-7004, 2002.

Non-Peer-Reviewed

• Y. Ge, Dissecting the Polymorphism of Chemical Potential Numerically and Analytically, ChemRxiv, Cambridge: Cambridge Open Engage, 2022. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-b80f6
• Y. Ge, Comment on the Reply to Comment on 'Dynamically maintained steady-state pressure gradients', arXiv:1812.11016v1, 2018.
• Y. Ge, Comment on Maxwell Zombies, American Scientist, Vol 106, Page 324, 2018 (American Scientist Article Link).
• Y. Ge, Ph. D. Dissertation, Global Optimization of Passivated Si Clusters at the Ab Initio Level Via Semiempirical Methods.
• J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Global Optimization of SixHy and SixFy Clusters at the Ab Initio Level, Maui High Performance Computing Center Application Briefs, page 6-7,2004.