Recent Advances in Multifunctional Sensing Technology for Gas Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection is addressed to the main advances and new directions in gas-sensing devices aiming to collect the most relevant works concerning such challenging topic. Gas Sensors and Multifunctional Gas Sensing Systems that are expected to improve the quality of human life by applying them to achieve specific purposes in various areas of daily life.

Stimulated by the multiple applications of gas sensors, research in this field is constantly evolving, based on advances in the synthesis and deposition of new gas-sensitive nanomaterials. Moreover, innovative technological solutions offered by micro and nanotechnology provide novel functional microfabricated platforms for sensors arrays and the integration of sensing elements. Such advances open up opportunities for the development of a wide range of gas-sensing devices based on different sensing principles and with improved properties (high detectivity, specificity, low power consumption, multifunctionality, and miniaturized size).

Major interests driving the gas sensors market across the world are environment monitoring, air quality analysis, food industry, industrial processing, automotive and aerospace industries, healthcare, breath analysis and volatilomics as early diagnostics in medicine and human biomonitoring. A large growth of the gas sensors market in the coming years will result from IoT applications, such as smart cities, smart homes, smartphones, and wearable devices.

This Topical Collection of the journal Chemosensors aims to cover various aspects of gas sensors and their applications, such as (but not limited to) the preparation/deposition/characterization of gas-sensing materials, the development of MEMS/NEMS platforms for the integration of gas sensing and nanomaterials, gas-sensing principles, electronic noses, analytical chemistry methods, electronic interfaces for chemical sensors, the development of devices for actual applications.

We invite all researchers working on gas sensors to submit their original research studies to this Topical Collection. Both review articles and original research papers are welcomed.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Nanomaterials with gas-sensing properties
• Low-dimensional nanostructures
• Gas-sensing principles
• Micro/nano-fabrication
• Sensor array development
• Electronic noses
• Electronics for chemical device
• Data analysis and pattern recognition
• Applications

Dr. Simonetta Capone
Collection Editor

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