Micro and Nano Technology in Gas Sensing
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "C:Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 9165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas sensors; solar energy applications; X-ray
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the use of gas sensors has become increasingly important in various fields such as environmental monitoring, medicine, industry, fire safety, and many others. However, at the same time, the complexity of gas sensor's development has also increased, since specific and difficult-to-match requirements are often claimed for the type of detecting gas, operating concentration range, sensitivity, size, long-term stability, energy consumption, and others.
The Special Issue "Micro- and Nanotechnologies in Gas Analysis" aims to present the latest topical research in the field of gas sensors, based on both scientific and engineering achievements, including the development of promising gas-sensitive nanomaterials, selection of a method for measuring and processing of a sensor signal, as well as improving the design of sensors, miniaturization of their components, and optimization of energy consumption. More broadly, in this Special Issue we would like to collect the articles reporting on the achievements and approaches in the development and design of gas sensors using micro- and nanotechnologies. All types of submissions are welcome, including research articles, reviews, and communications. Authors are encouraged to contribute to the Special Issue with the results of their experimental or theoretical research. Topics that will be covered in this Special Issue include (but are not restricted to) the following:
- The synthesis and characterization of gas sensing materials based on nanocrystalline metal oxides, composites, perovskites, sulfides, graphene-based materials, quantum dots, surface modification, and functionalization.
- Evaluation of surface reactivity of gas sensing materials, adsorption and desorption of gases, investigations of gas-sensing mechanisms.
- Semiconductor gas sensing materials for gas detection under UV or visible photoactivation, the use of photoactivation to reduce the energy consumption of sensors.
- Approaches to the miniaturization and integration of gas sensors, reducing the size of sensitive, heating, or light-emitting elements.
- Manufacturing of sensors on flexible or transparent substrates, printed and patterned gas sensors.
Dr. Artem Chizhov
Prof. Dr. Alexey Shaposhnik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gas sensors
- metal oxides
- nanomaterials
- photoactivation
- miniaturization
- design and optimization
- energy consumption
- patterned sensors
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