Daniel Tan
Professor, Deputy Program Head of Materials Science and Engineering Program
Office: R722
Daniel Tan is a professor of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, he was also appointed as the professor of Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, joining the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in August 2018. Dr. Tan received a Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1998, and a Ph.D in Solid State Physics from Chinese Academy of Science in 1989 following Academician T.S.Ke. After serving in University of Science and Technology of China for 4 years as a faculty, he moved to the United States as a visiting scientist (Argonne National Laboratory and UIUC) in 1994-1995. He joined Honeywell Corp. in 1998 as a Sr. Scientist to develop high-K ferroelectric materials for semiconductor industry. During 2000-2004, he was recruited to CTS Corp. as a Sr. Staff Engineer to develop high performance piezoelectric transducers and cell phone antenna materials. In the following 12 years, he dedicated his passion, innovation and pioneering efforts in Nanodielectrics and Energy Storage to General Electric. In 2016, he joined W.L.Gore as a Sr. Polymer Dielectric Scientist to further the high performance polymer investigations for capacitor and membrane technology.
Dr. Tan has authored/co-authored over 90 journal papers, 2 college teaching textbooks, 3 book chapters, and 50 corporate internal reports. As an innovator, he holds 55 patents and trade secrets in the field of ceramics, polymers, energy storage and electronic components. He has pioneered development in nanodielectric composites, high temperature and high energy density capacitors as a principal scientist for industry and US government. He is the recipient of various awards including the First Place Prize of Natural Science Award of Chinese Academy of Science (1993), GE Global Research Innovation Award (2008), 2022 Best Teaching Award of Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and The Most Worthy Technology Investment Award from the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair 2023. He is a member of MRS, ACERS, SPIE, iMAPS and IEEE and reviewers of several journals.
The Tan group focuses on future generation functional materials for energy needs, in particular on the synthesis of nanocomposites with carefully crafted nano to mesoscale structures which lead to emergence of super-dielectric property (capacitive and resistive), advanced electromechanical property (piezoelectric) and thermoelectric properties. The group combines thin film coating and analytical techniques with advanced spectroscopic methods to probe physics of interfaces and dielectric phenomena in materials with non-ideal structures under extreme conditions. The group also has considerable research interests in high temperature capacitor and electrochemical capacitor technologies that rely on high energy-density dielectric films and nano-enabled electrode materials for electronic devices.
- Nanodielectric composites and interface phenomena
- Energy storage and electrochemical supercapacitors
- Polymer film and membrane
- Piezoelectric conversion materials
- Microwave dielectric ceramics
Xudong Wu, Anat Karlin, Vadim Beilin, Gennady E. Shter, Gideon S. Grader,* Yachin Ivry, Shuheng Lin, and Daniel Q. Tan, Chain-Like Semiconductive Fillers for Dielectric Enhancement and Loss Reduction of Polymer Composites, Adv. Mater. 2024, 2401597.
Daniel Q. Tan, YiChen Liu, XiaoTian Lin, EnLing Huang, Xi Lin, XuDong Wu, JinTao Lin, RongHai Luo, TianXiang, Exploration of Breakdown Strength Decrease and Mitigation of Ultrathin Polypropylene. Polymers 2023, 15(10), 2257.
Zilong Zhuang; Fuming Zhang; Dayakar Gandla; Vijaykumar V. Jadhav; Zhaoxi Liu; Liangsheng Hu; Fushen Lu; Daniel Q. Tan, Metal-Organic Framework Derived ZnO, N-Dually Doped Nanocages as an Efficient Host for Stable Li Metal Anodes, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15: 38530-38539.
Dayakar Gandla; Zilong Zhuang; Vijaykumar V. Jadhav; Daniel Q. Tan, Lewis acid molten salt method for 2D MXene synthesis and energy storage applications: A review, Energy Storage Materials, 2023, 63.2
Xudong Wu; Guanghui Song; Xiaofei Zhang; Xi Lin; Yachin Ivry; Daniel Q. Tan, Multilayer polyetherimide films incorporating alumina nanolayers for dielectric capacitors, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 450: 137940-137940.
Dayakar Gandla; Fuming Zhang; Daniel Q. Tan, Advantage of Larger Interlayer Spacing of a Mo2Ti2C3 MXene FreeStanding Film Electrode toward an Excellent Performance Supercapacitor in a Binary Ionic Liquid-Organic Electrolyte, ACS Omega, 2022, 7(8): 7190-7198.
Xudong Wu; Dayakar Gandla; Li Lei; Chaoxin Chen; Daniel Q. Tan, Superior Discharged Energy Density in Polyetherimide Composites Enabled by Ultra-low ZnO@BN Core-Shell Fillers, Materials Letters, 2021, 290: 129434-129439.
Zilong Zhuang; Chang Liu; Yiyang Yan; Pengcheng Ma; Daniel Q. Tan, Zn–CxNy nanoparticle arrays derived from a metal–organic framework for ultralow-voltage hysteresis and stable Li metal anodes, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 47: 27095-27101.
Dayakar Gandla; Guanghui Song; Chongrui Wu; Yair Ein-Eli; Daniel Q. Tan, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of Alumina over Activated Carbon Electrodes Enabling a Stable 4 V Supercapacitor Operation, Chemistry Open, 2021, 10: 402-407.
Pritom Bora, Bibhusita Mahanta, Amith Anil, Daniel Tan, Praveen Ramamurthy, Electromagnetic data-driven approach to realize the best microwave absorption characteristics of MXene based nanocomposites, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2021, 3, 10, 4558–4567.
Daniel Q. Tan, The search for enhanced dielectric strength of polymer-based dielectrics: A focused review on polymer nanocomposites. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 137, 33, 49379 (2020).
D. Q. Tan, “Chapter 1 Introduction to Electrostatic Capacitor Technology” in Book of Advanced Dielectric Materials for Electrostatic Capacitors ed. by Qi Li, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2020.
Daniel Q. Tan, Review of Polymer-based Nanodielectric Exploration and Film Scale-up for Advanced Capacitors. AFM 30, 18, 1808567(2019).