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TAN Swee Ngin

 
Current Appointment Associate Professor
 
Office NIE7-03-97
 
Telephone (65) 6790 3810 (Office)
 
Fax (65) 6896 9414
 
Email sweengin.tan@nie.edu.sg
 
 
Academic Background BSc Ed (Hons) Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, 1984
PhD (Deakin), 1991
 
Professional Organisations Associate Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Member, International Society of Electrochemistry.
Member, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry
 
 
       
  Profile UK SERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1990-1992) and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratoire D’Electrochimie, Department de Chimie, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (1992-1993).
 		  
  Courses BAY102 Physical Chemistry I
BAY202 Physical Chemistry II
BAY425 Analytical Chemistry II
NAY 504 Advanced Electrochemistry
 		  
  Research Interests Electrochemistry
Development of Electrochemical Sensors & Biosensors
Development of Novel Separation Techniques for Capillary Electrophoresis
 		  
  Research Grants RP 13/98TSN
RP17/99TSN
 		  
  Professional Activities 1997-Singapore National Institute of Chemistry, Chemistry Speech Contest Organising Committee Member
2000- Advisory Committee on Chemistry Exhibits of Singapore Science Centre
 		  
  Theses Supervised 1998- Hua Lin, Capillary Electrophoresis, PhD
1999- Development of Biosensors, MSc
 		  
  Selected Publications    
 

 

    
 

  1. Li, J., Tan, S. N. & Oh, J. T. Silica Sol-gel Immobilized Amperometric Enzyme Electrode for Peroxide Determination in the Organic Phase, J. Electroanal. Chem., 1998, 448:69-77.

  2.  Li, J., Chia, L. S., Goh, N. K. & Tan, S. N. Silica Sol-gel Immobilized Amperometric Biosensor for the Determination of Phenolic Compounds, Anal. Chim. Acta, 1998, 362:203-211.

  3. Li, J., Chia, L. S., Goh, N. K. & Tan, S. N. Renewable Silica Sol-gel derived Carbon Composite based Glucose Biosensor, J. Electroanal. Chem., 1999, 460:234-241.

  4.  Hua, L. & Tan, S. N. Amperometric Detection for Capillary Electrophoresis at a Sol-gel Carbon Composite Electrode, Anal. Chim. Acta, 2000, 403:179-186.

  5. Hua, L., Chia, L. S., Goh, N. K. & Tan, S. N. Amperometric Detection of Carbohydrates by Capillary Electrophoresis with a Cuprous Oxide Modified Sol-gel Carbon Composite Electrode, Electroanalysis, 2000, 12:287-291.

  6. Miao, Y. & Tan, S. N. Amperometric Hydrogen Peroxide Biosensor based on Immobilization of Peroxidase in Chitosan Matrix Crosslinked with Glutaraldehyde, Analyst, 2000,125:1591-1594.

  7. Hua, L. & Tan, S. N. Capillary Electrophoresis with an Integrated On-capillary Tubular Detector Based on a Carbon Sol-Gel-Derived Platform, Anal. Chem., 2000, 72:4821-4825

  8. Hua, L., Peng, Z. F., Chia, L. S., Goh, N. K. & Tan, S. N. Separation of Kaemferols in Impatiens balsamina Flowers by Capillary Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection, J. Chrom. A, 2001, 909:297-303.

  9. Miao, Y., Chia, L. S., Goh, N. K. & Tan, S. N.  Amperometric Glucose Biosensor based on Immobilization of Peroxidase in Chitosan Matrix Crosslinked with Glutaradehyde, Electroanalysis, 2001, 13:347-349.

  10. Tan, S. N. & Hua L. Amperometric Detection of Cytochrome C by Capillary Electrophoresis at a Sol-gel Carbon Composite Electrode, Anal. Chim. Acta, 2002, 450:263-267.  

  11.  Tan, S. N. & Hua, L. Electrochemical Eetection based on Sol-gel Carbon CompositeElectrodes for Capillary Electrophoresis, Research Trends: Currents Topics in Analytical Chemistry, 2002, 3, 83-93.

  12.  Zeng, A., Liu, E., Tan, S. N., Zhang, S. & Gao, J., Stripping Voltammetric Analysis of Lead at Nitrogen Doped Diamond-like Carbon Film Electrodes, Electroanalysis, 2002, 14, 1294-1298..

  13.  Zeng, A., Liu, E., Tan, S. N., Zhang, S. & Gao, J. Cyclic Voltammetry Studies of Sputtered Nitrogen Doped Diamond-like Carbon Film Electrode, Electroanalysis, 2002, 14, 1110-1115.

  14.  Zeng, A., Liu, E., S. Zhang, Tan, S. N., Hing, P., Annergren, I. F. & Gao, J. Impedance Study on Electrochemical Characteristics of Sputtered DLC Films, Thin Solid Films, 2003, 426, 258-264.

  15. Yang, X., Hua, L., Gong, H. & Tan, S. N.,     Covalent Immobilization of an Enzyme (glucose oxidase) onto a Carbon Sol-gel Silicate Composite Surface as a Biosensing Platform, Anal. Chim. Acta, 2003, 478:67-75.

  16. Yang, X., Hall, S. B. &  Tan, S. N. Electrochemical Reduction of a Conjugated Cinnamic Acid Diazonium Salt as an Immobilization Matrix for Glucose Biosensor, Electroanalysis, 2003, 15:885-891.

  17. Teh, H. F., Yang, X., Gong, H. & Tan, S. N. Voltammetric and differential pulse stripping studies of adenine on a sol-gel derived carbon composite electrode, Electroanalysis, 2003, in press.

  
     

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