Harbin Institute of Technology

About: Harbin Institute of Technology is a education organization based out in Harbin, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Control theory. The organization has 88259 authors who have published 109297 publications receiving 1603393 citations. The organization is also known as: HIT.

Metal–Organic Framework Based upon the Synergy of a Brønsted Acid Framework and Lewis Acid Centers as a Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for Fixed-Bed Reactions

Abstract: We report a strategy of combining a Bronsted acid metal–organic framework (MOF) with Lewis acid centers to afford a Lewis acid@Bronsted acid MOF with high catalytic activity, as exemplified in the context of MIL-101-Cr-SO3H·Al(III). Because of the synergy between the Bronsted acid framework and the Al(III) Lewis acid centers, MIL-101-Cr-SO3H·Al(III) demonstrates excellent catalytic performance in a series of fixed-bed reactions, outperforming two benchmark zeolite catalysts (H-Beta and HMOR). Our work therefore not only provides a new approach to achieve high catalytic activity in MOFs but also paves a way to develop MOFs as a new type of highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts for fixed-bed reactions.

Nanophotonics and Nanochemistry: Controlling the Excitation Dynamics for Frequency Up- and Down-Conversion in Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles

Abstract: Nanophotonics is an emerging science dealing with the interaction of light and matter on a nanometer scale and holds promise to produce new generation nanophosphors with highly efficient frequency conversion of infrared (IR) light. Scientists can control the excitation dynamics by using nanochemistry to produce hierarchically built nanostructures and tailor their interfaces. These nanophosphors can either perform frequency up-conversion from IR to visible or ultraviolet (UV) or down-conversion, which results in the IR light being further red shifted. Nanophotonics and nanochemistry open up numerous opportunities for these photon converters, including in high contrast bioimaging, photodynamic therapy, drug release and gene delivery, nanothermometry, and solar cells. Applications of these nanophosphors in these directions derive from three main stimuli. Light excitation and emission within the near-infrared (NIR) “optical transparency window” of tissues is ideal for high contrast in vitro and in vivo imagin...

Ultra-high sensitivity Fabry-Perot interferometer gas refractive index fiber sensor based on photonic crystal fiber and Vernier effect

Abstract: An ultra-high sensitivity open-cavity Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) gas refractive index (RI) sensor based on the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and Vernier effect is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor is prepared by splicing a section of PCF to a section of fiber tube fused with a section of single mode fiber. The air holes running along the cladding of the PCF enable the gas to enter or leave the cavity freely. The reflection beam from the last end face of the PCF is used to generate the Vernier effect, which significantly improves the sensitivity of the sensor. Experimental results show that the proposed sensor can provide an ultra-high RI sensitivity of 30899 nm/RIU. This sensor has potential applications in fields such as gas concentration analyzing and humidity monitoring.

Solutions of the equation AV+BW=VF and their application to eigenstructure assignment in linear systems

Abstract: Two new simple, complete, analytical, and restriction-free solutions with complete and explicit freedom of the matrix equation AV+BW=VF are proposed. Here (AB) is known and is controllable, and F is in the Jordan form with arbitrary given eigenvalues. Based on the proposed solutions of this matrix equation, a complete parametric approach for eigenstructure assignment in linear systems via state feedback is proposed, and two new algorithms are presented. The proposed solutions of the matrix equation and the eigenstructure assignment result are generalizations of some previous results and are simpler and more effective. >