My current research interests mainly focus on the following two directions at The University of Hong Kong: (1) Fabrication of high-performance electronics (transistors, integrated circuits, memory devices, in-memory neuromorphic computing) and optoelectronics (e.g., photodetectors, imaging sensor systems and in-sensor neuromorphic computing) based on 2D materials (e.g., nanoflakes, thin films and their van der Waals heterostructures). (2) Structural engineering (e.g., defect, phase, interlayer distance, etc.) of layered nanomaterials (e.g., TMDs, layered metal oxides and LDHs) for biomedical applications (e.g., cancer therapy and bone repairing/regeneration)..

Biography– Dr. Chaoliang Tan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), HKSAR, China. He received his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Hua Zhang in Materials Science from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 2016. After working as a Research Fellow in the same place for about one year, then he worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow with Prof. Ali Javey in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California-Berkeley for two years. He was an Assistant Professor in City University of Hong Kong from 2020 to 2023 before joining EEE HKU. He has authored or co-authored over 160 SCI papers (42 ESI Highly Cited Papers) on journals like Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Mater., Nat. Chem., Nat. Catal., Nat. Rev. Mater., Nat. Rev. Chem, Nat. Commun., Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., etc. The total citation of his published papers is over 25,700 with an H-index of 71. Among them, more than 60 are first-authored or corresponding-authored papers, including Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Rev. Mater., Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Nano-Micro Lett. and Small. He has been listed as the “Highly Cited Researcher” (Top 1%, Clarivate Analytics) in last five years (2018-2022) as well as “Top 2% Scientists in the world” by Stanford University in last three years (2020-2022). He also received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (HK & Macau) in 2021.