Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering

 

Zhejiang University, Yuquan Campus
38 Zheda Road
Hangzhou, China 310027

 

Other Appointments

Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials

 

Professional Activities

Member, Technical Committee of Glasses for Optoelectronics, International Commission on Glass

 

Education

Ph.D. – Zhejiang University, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, 1997
M. S – Zhejiang University, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, 1992
B.S. – Zhejiang University, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, 1988
 

Working Experience

2008-, Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University
2002-, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University
1999-2002, Associate professor,Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University
1997-1999, Assistant professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University
 

Awards and Honors

The winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2006

 

Research Interests

Hybrid organic-inorganic photonic materials (solid tunable laser media, luminescence materials and nonlinear optical materials); optical spectroscopy; metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for the sensing, storage and separation

 

Current Projects

1. Structural design and controllable assembly of multifunctional metal-organic framework crystals, Major International Joint Research Project of NSFC
2. Study on the synthesise and luminescence properties of lanthanide-organic frameworks for sensing of ions and small organic molecules, NSFC’s Project
3. Metal-organic framework mesoporous functional materials, Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese Scholars and Scholars in Hong Kong and Macao of NSFC

Publication List

Recent Publications
 

1. Z. Zhang, S. Xiang, X. Rao, Q. Zheng, Frank R. Fronczek, G. Qian* and B. Chen, A Rod Packing Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Open Metal Sites for Selective Guest Sorption and Sensing of Nitrobenzene, Chem. Commun., 46(38) (2010) 7205-7207
2. B. Chen, S. Xiang and G. Qian*, Metal-Organic Frameworks with Functional Pores for Recognition of Small Molecules, Acc. Chem. Res., 43(8) (2010) 1115-1124
3. Y. Xiao, Y. Cui, Q. Zheng, S. Xiang, G. Qian* and Banglin Chen, A Microporous Luminescent Metal-Organic Framework for Highly Selective and Sensitive Sensing of Cu2+ in Aqueous Solution, Chem. Commun., 46(30) (2010) 5503-5505
4. B. Chen, L. Wang, Y. Xiao, Frank R. Fronczek, M. Xue, Y. Cui, G. Qian*, A Luminescent metal-organic framework with Lewis basic pyridyl sites for sensing of metal ions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48(3) (2009) 500-503
5. J. Gao, Y. Cui, J. Yu, Z. Wang, M. Wang, J. Qiu and G. Qian*, Molecular Design and synthesis of hetero-trichromophore for enhanced nonlinear optical activity, Macromolecules, 42(6) (2009) 2198-2203
6. B. Chen, L. Wang, F. Zapata, G. Qian* and E. B. Lobkovsky, A luminescent microporous metal-organic framework for the recognition and sensing of anions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(21) (2008) 6718-6719
7. Y. Cui, G. Qian*, L. Chen, Z. Wang and M. Wang, Hybrid nonlinear optical materials containing imidazole chromophore through the sol-gel process, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 28(20) (2007) 2019-2023
8. B. Chen, Y. Yang, F. Zapata, G. Lin, G. Qian* and E. B. Lobkovsky, Luminescent open metal sites within a metal-organic framework for sensing of small molecules, Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 1693-1696