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02/2016-09/2021, Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09/2014-02/2016, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09/2008-06/2013, Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo
09/2025-Present, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS)
03/2022-06/2025, Post-Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reviewer for Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, etc.
Design and development of redox-active materials and systems for material recovery, regeneration, and conversion at the energy-environment nexus, with a specific focus on electrochemically mediated separations for water purification, electrochemical technologies for carbon dioxide capture and conversion, redox catalysis for waste recycling and upcycling, as well as bioinspired and sustainable materials.
1. Tan, K-J.; Su, X.; Hatton, T.A.*, An asymmetric iron-based redox-active system for electrochemical separation of ions in aqueous media. Advanced Functional Materials 2020, 30 (15), 1910363. [Winner of the 2020 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award (Adsorption and Ion Exchange)].
2. Tan, K-J.; Morikawa, S.; Hemmatifar, A.; Ozbek, N.; Liu, Y.; Hatton, T.A.*, Hydrophobicity tuned polymeric redox materials with solution-specific electroactive properties for selective electrochemical metal ion recovery in aqueous environments. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023, 15 (37), 43859-43870.
3. Tan, K-J.; Morikawa, S.; Phillips, K.R.; Ozbek, N.; Hatton, T.A.*, Redox-active magnetic composites for anionic contaminant removal from water. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14 (7), 8974-8983.
4. Tan, K-J.; Kuger, L.; Franzreb, M.; Hatton, T.A.*, Physicochemical and electrochemical investigation of naturally occurring quinones for application toward electrochemically mediated carbon dioxide capture. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024, 128 (39), 16467-16480. [Advertised on X (formerly Twitter) by The Journal of Physical Chemistry].
5. Tan, K-J.; Morikawa, S.; Ozbek, N.; Lenz, M.; Arlt, C-R.; Tschöpe, A.; Franzreb, M.; Hatton, T.A.*, Redox polyelectrolytes with pH-sensitive electroactive functionality in aqueous media. Langmuir 2023, 39 (8), 2943-2956.
6. Tan, K-J.; Morikawa, S.; Hatton, T.A.*, Electroactive behavior of adjustable vinylferrocene copolymers in electrolyte media. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2024, 128 (7), 1748-1759.
7. Su, X.; Tan, K-J.; Elbert, J.; Rüttiger, C.; Gallei, M.; Jamison, T.F.; Hatton, T.A.*, Asymmetric Faradaic systems for selective electrochemical separations. Energy & Environmental Science 2017, 10, 1272-1283. [Featured in MIT News].
8. Hemmatifar A.; Kang, J.S.; Ozbek, N.; Tan, K-J.; Hatton, T.A.*, Electrochemically mediated direct CO2 capture by a stackable bipolar cell. ChemSusChem 2022, 15 (6), e202102533.
9. Abdinejad, M.*; Reffet, M.; Tan, K-J.; Hatton, T.A.*, Sustainable electrochemical CO2 capture from air using heterogenized quinones in aqueous media. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2025, 13 (29), 11425-11436.
10. Bromberg, L.; Ozbek, N.; Tan, K-J.; Su, X.; Padhye, L.P.; Hatton, T.A.*, Iron phosphomolybdate complexes in electrocatalytic reduction of aqueous disinfection byproducts. Chemical Engineering Journal 2021, 408, 127354.
11. Su, X.; Bromberg, L.; Tan, K-J.; Jamison, T.F.; Padhye, L.P.; Hatton, T.A.*, Electrochemically
mediated reduction of nitrosamines by hemin-functionalized redox electrodes. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2017, 4 (4), 161-167.
Tan, K-J.; Hatton, T.A.*, Electrochemically mediated sustainable separations in water. In Sustainable Separation Engineering: Materials, Techniques and Process Development (Eds: Gyorgy Szekely and Dan Zhao) 2022, John Wiley & Sons, 1 ed., Ch. 1, p. 1-62.
Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore (GYSS), 2022
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award, 2020
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral (PGS D), 2018-2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Chemical Engineering E.G. Roos (1944) Fellowship, 2016
