Metal-Organic Frameworks-Derived Functional Materials: Advances in Sensing Applications
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2026 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal-organic frameworks; metal oxides; gas sensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to high specific surface areas, tuned pore sizes and morphologies, metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived functional materials have been enormously developed for fabricating sensors. However, the merits of sensor responses are not as obviously achieved compared with sensing materials prepared via conventional methods.
This Special Issue of Chemosensors serves to provide a platform for researchers to report results and findings in metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived functional materials for sensing applications (such as gas sensing), emphasizing the development of such materials specifically for sensing purposes. It includes numerical synthesis methods, structural investigation, device fabrication procedures, sensing measurements, sensing mechanisms, in situ/operando technique, theoretical calculation, and real sample testing.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
(1) Growth and synthesis of novel structural MOF-derived oxides for sensing applications;
(2) Novel characterization and analysis techniques (structural, electrical, optical, etc.) for MOF-derived sensing materials;
(3) Sensing techniques and applications, such as resistance-type gas sensors, field effect transistor (FET), quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), etc.), based on MOF-derived materials;
(4) In situ/operando techniques (in situ DRIFTS, operando Raman, in situ TEM, in situ XPS, in situ XRD, etc.) for investigating sensing mechanisms of MOF-derived materials;
(5) Theoretical calculation (first-principle theory, modeling and simulation) for optimizing MOF-derived sensing materials.
Dr. Wei Yang
Dr. Hu Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal-organic frameworks
- functional materials
- sensing applications
- structural morphologies
- in situ/operando technique
- theoretical calculation
- real sample testing
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