Autor: Jin-Chong Tan

JC Tan is Professor of Nanoscale Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University. He obtained his BEng (1st Class) and MEng in Mechanical & Materials Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (1999) and Nanyang Technological University (2001), respectively. He obtained his Ph D in Materials Science from Cambridge University (2005), working in the field of porous composite materials. He heads the Multifunctional Materials & Composites (MMC) Group at Oxford since 2012 (www2.eng.ox.ac.uk/tan). In the emerging field of MOF mechanics, he has contributed to pioneering studies in elastic anisotropy of framework crystals, nanoindentation of MOF compounds, dynamics of open frameworks and terahertz vibrations.