Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Engineering

Dr Mike Yongjun Tan
  Phone   +61 3 522 72443
Email   mike.tan@deakin.edu.au
Position   Associate Professor of Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion Technologies
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Sustainable Industrial and Urban Water Management

Dr Tan’s principal teaching and research interests are in corrosion science and engineering and their
applications for enhancing the reliability and durability of civil and industrial infrastructures. He
contributed to electrochemical methods for corrosion testing, monitoring and prediction and corrosion
inhibitor and anti-corrosion coating research. He is the author of over 100 publications and a book
entitled 'Heterogeneous Electrode Processes and Localized Corrosion' (2012 John Wiley & Sons)

Research interests

  1. Corrosion science and engineering
  2. Applied electrochemistry
  3. The reliability and durability of civil and industrial infrastructures


Career

2011: Associate Professor, School of Engineering/ Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University
2008-2011: Corrosion Engineering Course Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Curtin University
2000-2006: Assistant Professor (00-01)/Associate Professor (02-06), School of Materials Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1996-1999: Research Fellow, WA Corrosion Research Group, School of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University

Key publications

Y.J. Tan (2012) Heterogeneous Electrode Processes and Localized Corrosion 246 pages John Wiley & Sons INC.

Y. J. Tan, N. N. Aung and T. Liu (2012) Evaluating localised corrosion intensity using the wire beam electrode Corrosion Science vol.63, pp379-386 UK

Y. J. Tan (2009) Sensing electrode inhomogeneity and electrochemical heterogeneity using an electrochemically integrated multi-electrode array Journal of the Electrochemical Society (USA) vol.156, C195-C208 USA

Y.J. Tan (2011) Understanding the effects of electrode inhomogeneity and electrochemical heterogeneity on pitting corrosion initiation on bare electrode surfaces Corrosion Science vol. 53, 1845-1864 UK

Y.J. Tan, M. Mocerino and T. Paterson (2011) Organic Molecules Showing the Characteristics of Localized Corrosion Aggravation and Inhibition Corrosion Science vol. 53, 2041-2045 UK

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Professional activities

Program Leader (Program 2 on corrosion prediction, pipeline coating, cathodic protection), Energy Pipeline Cooperative Research Centre
Committee Member: ACA Oil and Gas Committee; ACA Water Infrastructure Committee
Member ECS, NACE, ACA

 

Postdoctoral fellows

NameProject title
J XiongSmart materials for corrosion management of desalination infrastructures (Project Manager, NCED project RM24549 funding $450,000 with a team of researchers lead by Prof Maria Forsyth) N D NamCarbon dioxide corrosion inhibitors (with Prof Maria Forsyth)  

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
FACUNDO VARELAKey factors affecting corrosion monitoring (with Prof Maria Forsyth)  

 

Masters students

Student nameThesis title Ying HuoCorrosion of water pipes in solutions with high salt concentrations (with Dr Li Shu)  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title PAUL ERSKINECorrosion testing of cooling water systems (4th year mechanical engineering student project) MATTHEW DODGSHUNSimulating top of the line corrosion of gas pipeline (4th year mechanical engineering student project) JAMES BOLTONUnderground corrosion and inhibition (4th year civil engineering student project) JOEL NORTONEvaluating cathodic protection anodic materials (4th year civil engineering student project)  

 

Teaching areas

Corrosion science and engineering
Materials selection and performance
Engineering projects


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8th February 2013