Nanostructured Material-Based Gas Sensors
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanostructures for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 149
Editor
Interests: gas sensors; sensing materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With this Special Issue, entitled “Nanostructured Material-Based Gas Sensors”, we aim to gather cutting‑edge research at the intersection of nanoscience, materials engineering, and gas‑sensing technology. Driven by global demands for environmental monitoring, industrial safety, public health, and smart detection systems, high‑performance gas sensors have become essential. Nanostructured materials—including metal oxides, carbon nanomaterials, two‑dimensional materials, nanocomposites, and heterostructures—offer exceptional advantages such as a large surface‑to‑volume ratio, tunable electronic properties, high surface reactivity, and designable morphology, enabling significant improvements in sensitivity, selectivity, response/recovery speed, stability, and low‑power operation.
This Special Issue aligns with Chemosensors' scope, which includes advanced materials, sensor science, and applied nanotechnology. We welcome the submission of original research articles, communications, and review papers focused on fundamental mechanisms, material design, synthesis, characterization, device fabrication, and practical applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: controlled synthesis of nanostructured sensing materials; structure–property–performance relationships; surface modification, doping, and heterostructure engineering; room‑temperature and low‑power gas sensors; flexible and wearable sensing devices; sensing mechanism studies; and real‑world applications in environmental monitoring, breath diagnosis, industrial leakage detection, and smart systems.
With the aim of collating high‑quality contributions from scholars across the globe, this Special Issue seeks to highlight recent breakthroughs, address current challenges such as selectivity, stability, and scalability, and promote the translation of nanostructured gas sensors from laboratory research to industrial and societal applications. We invite researchers to submit innovative work that advances both fundamental understanding and practical development, contributing to the sustainable progress of high‑performance gas‑sensing technology.
Dr. Pengfei Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanostructured materials
- gas sensors
- sensing materials
- metal oxide semiconductors
- sensing mechanism
- environmental monitoring
- 2D materials
- gas detection
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