Mechanical Behaviour of Metal-Organic Framework Materials

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 PhD 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.