Jin-Chong Tan

Professor Jin-Chong Tan leads the Multifunctional Materials & Composites (MMC) Laboratory, where his group develops porous metal-organic frameworks, multifunctional thin films, polymer membranes and bespoke nanocomposite systems targeting real-world applications. Recent research interests include nanoengineering of novel lightemitting materials and tuneable nanocomposites for disruptive sensing technologies. Their approach involves the application of cutting-edge experimental techniques, such as atomic force microscopy, nanoindentation, vibrational spectroscopy and imaging, in combination with theoretical modelling and quantum mechanical calculations on state-of-the-art supercomputers. The group has strong links with the Diamond Light Source and the ISIS Neutron & Muon Spallation Source in Harwell campus, which are big science facilities in the UK. They use high-intensity synchrotron and neutron irradiation to probe the structure-property relations of new functional materials and complex composite systems.

"Unravelling the Ageing Effects of PDMS-based Triboelectric Nanogenerators", Advanced Materials & Interfaces, 2400094 (2024). "High-Performance Triboelectric Nanogenerators Incorporating Chlorinated Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks with Topologically Tunable Dielectric and Surface Adhesion Properties", Nano Energy, 114, 108687 (2023). "Fundamentals of MOF Mechanics & Structure–Mechanical Property Relationships", in Mechanical Behaviour of Metal – Organic Framework Materials, The Royal Society of Chemistry (2023).