NanoST Lab Nanostructure Synthesis and Tailoring for Energy, Environment and Healthcare
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Associate Professor Timothy T. Y. TAN Director (Outreach) Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore 637459 Tel: (65) 6316 8829 Fax: (65) 6794 7553 Email: tytan@ntu.edu.sg ResearcherID: G-6223-2010 Why nanostructure tailoring? Structure or architecture at nanoscale plays critical role in determining material performances, and its interrogation and understanding could lead to breakthroughs in materials design and achievement in novel properties.
News:
May 2012: Xu Qingchi and Zhang Yan’s work “Anti-cAngptl4 Ab-conjugated N-TiO2/NaYF4:Yb,Tm Nanocomposite for Near Infrared-Triggered Drug Release and Enhanced Targeted Cancer Cell Ablation “ has been accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials .. Congratulations! Feb 2012: Congratulations to Zhang Yan for passing her oral defense! We welcome Dr Lin Jingdong to our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Jan 2012: We welcome Dr John Liu to our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. We welcome a new PhD candidate, Mr Ngaw Chee Keong, to our lab. Research Highlights · “Anti-cAngptl4 Ab-conjugated N-TiO2/NaYF4:Yb,Tm Nanocomposite for Near Infrared-Triggered Drug Release and Enhanced Targeted Cancer Cell Ablation” …. accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials · ‘HOT’ article featured on Nanoscale blog and journal homepage: http://blogs.rsc.org/nr. Killing bacteria in broad daylight: “Understanding bactericidal performance on ambient light activated TiO2-InVO4 nanostructured films” Nanoscale, 2011, 3 (12), 4977 - 4983. · Top 25 Hottest Articles in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry from July 2010 – June 2011. “Transparent Visible Light Activated C-N-F-Codoped TiO2 Films for Self-Cleaning Applications” 2010, 210, 181-187. · Top 10 most accessed articles when published in October 2011 in Nanoscale: “Nanostructure control of graphene-composited TiO2 by a one-step solvothermal approach for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells” 2011, 3 (11), 4613 - 4616. · A Three-Way Synergy of Triple-Modified Bi2WO6/Ag/N-TiO2 Nanojunction Film for Enhanced Photogenerated Charges Utilization, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47 (30), 8641 - 8643 · Facile preparation of cyclodextrin chiral stationary phases via organic soluble catalytic “click” chemistry for enantioseparation of chiral drugs, Nature Protocols 2011 6 p935-942. · Single-Phase Dy2O3:Tb^3+Nanocrystals as Dual-Modal Contrast Agent for High Field Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging, Chemistry of Materials 2011, 23 (9), pp 2439–2446. · Our work is featured on the cover of Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1122-1127. “Superhydrophilicity-Assisted Preparation of Transparent and Visible Light Activated N-doped Titania Film”
Education:
PhD (Chemical Engineering), Feb 2004 – University of New South Wales, Australia. Thesis “Photocatalytic Reduction of Selenate and Selenite: Water/Wastewater treatment and the Formation of Nano-Selenium Compounds” under the International Postgraduate Research Awards (IPRS), Australia and supervision of Professor Rose Amal. B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Hon 1^st Class, Feb 2000 – University of New South Wales, Australia.
Employment history:
Feb 2012 – current: Associate Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU, Singapore. March 2005 – Feb 2012: Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU, Singapore. Aug 2003 - Feb 2005: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR, Singapore. March 2003 – July 2003: Travel research fellow in CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France under the Australia-France Science and Technology Alliance Award March 2000 – Feb 2003: PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry, the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Selected publications:
Citation Information Total Citation: 768 H-index: 15 (Based on publication listed on Web of Science) Journal publication: 46 Book chapters: 4 Book editor: 1 Invited lecture: 9 Books Editor T T Y Tan (Ed), Rare Earth Materials Nanotechnology, Pan Stanford Publishing (in press). Journals *Corresponding authorship Ziming He, Guanhong Guai, Jing Liu, Chunxian Guo,Joachim Say Chye Loo, Chang Ming Li* and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Nanostructure control of graphene-composited TiO2 by a one-step solvothermal approach for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells, Nanoscale, 2011, 3 (12), 4977. Yong Wang, Feng Ai, Siu-Choon Ng*, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Sub-2 µm Porous Silica Materials for Enhanced Separation Performance in Liquid Chromatography, An invited review article, Journal of Chromatography A, 2012, 1228, p99-109. Qing Chi Xu, Yun Hau Ng, Yan Zhang, Joachim Say Chye Loo,Rose Amal,* and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, A Three-Way Synergy of Triple-Modified Bi2WO6/Ag/N-TiO2 Nanojunction Film for Enhanced Photogenerated Charges Utilization, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47 (30), 8641 – 8643 Gautom Kumar Das,Yan Zhang, Loyola D’Silva,Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Boon Chin Heng, Joachim Say Chye Loo,Subramanian Tamil Selvan,Kishore K. Bhakoo, and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Single-Phase Dy2O3:Tb^3+Nanocrystals as Dual-Modal Contrast Agent for High Field Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging, Chemistry of Materials 2011, 23 (9), pp 2439–2446. Yong Wang, Hui Chen, Yin Xiao, Cheong Hengq Ng, Ting Shan Oh, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan^*, Siu Choon Ng^*, Facile preparation of cyclodextrin chiral stationary phases via organic soluble catalytic “click” chemistry for enantioseparation of chiral drugs, Nature Protocols 2011 6 p935-942. Qing Chi Xu, Diana V. Wellia, Yun Hau Ng, Rose Amal, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Synthesis of Porous and Visible-light-active Bi2WO6/TiO2 Heterojunction Films with Improved Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Performances, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011 115 , 7419–7428. Qing Chi Xu, Diana V. Wellia, Dai Wei Liao, Tuti Mariana Lim, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of C-N-codoped TiO2 Films Prepared via an Organic-free Approach, Journal of Hazardous Materials 2011 188, 172-180. Xinxin Zhao, Boon Chin Heng, Sijing Xiong, Jun Guo, Timothy Thatt-Yang Tan, Freddy Yin Chiang Boey, Kee Woei Ng, & Joachim Say Chye Loo, In Vitro Assessment of Cellular Responses to Rod-Shaped Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles of Varying Lengths and Surface Areas, Nanotoxicology 2011 5(2): 182–194 Dominik Janczewski, Yan Zhang, Gautom Kumar Das, Dong Kee Yi, Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Kishore K. Bhakoo, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan,* And Subramanian Tamil Selvan, Bimodal Magnetic–Fluorescent Probes for Bioimaging, Microscopy Research And Technique 2011 74 p563-576. Das, Gautom; Ng, Siu Choon; White, Timothy; Loo, Joachim; D'Silva, Loyola; Padmanabhan, P.; Bhakoo, Kishore; Selvan, S. Tamil; Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang^* “Gadolinium Oxide Ultranarrow Nanorods as Multimodal Contrast Agents for Optical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging" Langmuir 2010, 26 (11), pp 8959–8965. Qing-chi Xu, Diana V. Wellia, Mahasin Alam Sk, Kok Hwa Lim, Joachim Say Chye Loo, Dai Wei Liao, Rose Amal and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan^* “Transparent Visible Light Activated C-N-F-Codoped TiO2 Films for Self-Cleaning Applications” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2010, 210, 181-187. Lai-Sheng Li, Yong Wang, David James Young, Siu-Choon Ng, Timothy T.Y. Tan^* "Monodispersed Submicron Porous Silica Particles Functionalized with CD Derivatives for Chiral CEC" Electrophoresis 2010, 31 378-387.   Gautom Kumar Das, Peggy P.Y. Chan, Ailing Teo, Joachim Say Chye Loo, James Anderson, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan^* “ in vitro Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Biomedical Nanoparticles and Their Extracts” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A,  2010, 93A (1) 337-346. Subramanian Tamil Selvan, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan, Dong Kee Yi and Nikhil R. Jana, Invited feature article “Functional and Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Bioimaging and Biosensing” Langmuir ,2010, 26 (14), pp 11631–11641. Yunxia Zhang, Gautom Kumar Das, Rong Xu and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan^*, “Tb-doped Iron Oxide: Bifunctional Fluorescent and Magnetic Nanocrystals” Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009, 19, 3696–3703. Charlene J W Ng, Han Gao, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan* “Atomic layer deposition of TiO 2 nanostructures for self-cleaning applications” Nanotechnology , 2008, 19, 445604. Gautom Kumar Das and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan* “Rare-Earth Doped and Co-Doped Y 2O 3 Nanomaterials as Potential Bio-Imaging Probe” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112 (30), 11211–11217. Timothy T. Tan , S. Tamil Selvan, Zhao Lan, Shujun Gao, Jackie Y. Ying “Size Control, Shape Evolution and Silica Coating of Near-Infrared-Emitting PbSe Quantum Dots” Chem Mat, 2007, 19(13), 3112. Yunxia Zhang, Jun Guo, Tim White, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan*, Rong Xu* “Y 2O 3: Tb nanocrystals self-assembly into nanorods by oriented attachment mechanism” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007, 111(22), 7893. S. T. Selvan, T. T. Tan, J. Y. Ying, “ Robust, Non-Cytotoxic, Silica-Coated CdSe Quantum Dots with Efficient Photoluminescence ” Advanced Materials , 2005, 17, 1620. T. T. Y. Tan, D. Beydoun and R. Amal, “Photocatalytic Reduction of Se(VI) in Aqueous Solutions in UV/TiO2 System: Kinetic Modeling and Reaction Mechanism,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107 [18] (2003) pp4296-4303.
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