CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: TAN KHAI CHEN
Birthplace: Penang, Malaysia
Email: khaichen_0203@dicp.ac.cn
Educational Background and Work Experience:
2026.02 – now: Post-doctoral fellow, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2020.09 – 2026.01: Ph.D., Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2017.09 – 2020.02: Master’s degree, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
2013.09 – 2016.11: Bachelor’s degree (Hons.), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (First class honours)
Research Interest: Metalorganic compounds for hydrogen storage and ion conduction
Scholarships and Awards:
1. 2025年度中国科学院大连化学物理研究所冠名奖（优秀研究生奖）
2. 2025年度卢嘉锡优秀研究生奖
3. 2025 Excellent International Student, University of Chinese of Academy Sciences
4. 2024 Excellent International Student, University of Chinese of Academy Sciences
5. 2020 – 2025 The Alliance of International Science Organizations Scholarship (ANSO).
Selected publication:
1. Khai Chen Tan#, Qijun Pei#, Jiafeng Yu, Lin Liu, Jiayin Li, Li Han, Yang Yu, Zhao Li, Alexis Munyentwali, Jiaquan Guo, Yuting Wang, Li Rao*, Teng He*, and Ping Chen*, Solar-Driven Reversible Hydrogen Storage of Sodium Cyclohexanolate/Phenoxide Pair, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, e202506275.
2. Khai Chen Tan#, Yang Yu#, Ruting Chen#, Teng He*, Zijun Jing, Qijun Pei, Jintao Wang, Yong Shen Chua*, Anan Wu*, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu*, and Ping Chen, Metallo-N-Heterocycles – A New Family of Hydrogen Storage Materials, Energy Storage Materials, 2020, 26: 198-202.
3. Nor Izzati Nordin#, Khai Chen Tan#, Hong Wen, Xiaohua Ju, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Teng He*, Ping Chen, and Yong Shen Chua*. Delicate tuning of reaction thermodynamic via formation of bi-metal phenoxide: synthesis, structure and hydrogen storage performance. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2025, 8(10): 6270-6279.
4. Khai Chen Tan, Yong Shen Chua*, Teng He*, and Ping Chen. Strategies of thermodynamic alternation on organic hydrogen carriers for hydrogen storage application: A review. Green Energy and Resources, 2023, 100020.
5. Khai Chen Tan#, Qijun Pei#, Jiafeng Yu, Hong Wen, Yang Yu, Jintao Wang, Nor Izzati Nordin, Teng He*, Yong Shen Chua*, and Ping Chen. Realizing room temperature catalytic hydrogenation of sodium phenoxide by Ru/TiO2 for hydrogen storage. Chemical Communications, 2023, 59: 4177-4180. (Hot Articles 2023)
6. Khai Chen Tan, Teng He*, Yong Shen Chua, and Ping Chen*. Recent advances of catalysis in the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles for hydrogen storage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 125(34): 18553-18566.
7. Khai Chen Tan, Zijun Jing, Yang Yu, Teng He*, Yong Shen Chua*, Qijun Pei, Dewen Zheng, Xi Zhang, Zhixin Ge, Fudong Zhang, and Ping Chen. Syntheses of Alkali-Metal Carbazolides for Hydrogen Storage, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46(19): 11051-11058.
