Editor Name: Tan Kar Ban

Designation: Associate Professor

University: Universiti Putra

Country: Malaysia

Biography:

Dr. Tan’s research interests encompass on the synthesis and characterisation of functional electroceramics using a variety of techniques including X-ray powder diffraction, electron microscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, thermal analysis, ac impedance spectroscopy and physical property measurements. The employment of these state-of-art techniques is imperative as to perform a systematic study on these materials, particularly due to their structural and compositional complexity and understanding of the correlation between their physical, structural and electrical properties. Dr. Tan has spearheaded and collaborated research projects with various parties through financial supports from Research University Grant Scheme (RUGS), Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) and Science fund, MOSTI. He has published more than 100 papers in conference proceedings, international peer reviewed and citation-indexed journals.

Dr. Tan also contributes his expertise as a referee for many journals and other scholarly activities, through his engagements in conferences and outreach programmes organised by Malaysian Institute of Chemistry (IKM) and Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM). Currently, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) UK,member of YSN-ASM, associate member (AMIC, IKM), members of American Chemical Society (ACS) and Malaysian Solid State Science and Technology (MASS).