Advances and Applications of Metal Oxide-Based Gas Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal oxide gas sensors are ideally placed for long-term, cost-effective applications and are incredibly useful in applications such as safety, environmental monitoring, and medical devices. Coupling these principles with desired low maintenance, excellent selectivity, fast response, and scalable production can present challenges to the adoption of metal oxide sensors beyond their traditional applications.
This Special Issue welcomes articles discussing all aspects of metal oxide gas sensor research. Sensing layer material research and development are fundamental to expanding the possible measurand gases, while tuning selectivity and reliability. Articles detailing experimental or theoretical development of novel sensing materials are invited. Additionally, demonstration of progress overcoming sensing layer challenges such as the degradation or poisoning of the material in harsh applications is an area of great interest.
Miniaturization of these sensors and construction of multielement arrays accelerate the drive to integrate metal oxide sensors within portable devices. Selectivity and repeatability within a varied gas environment are crucial. Testing and deployment of systems in unique environments and applications are vital to secure metal oxide technology in the next generation of smart devices.
Signal processing, algorithm optimization, and electronic circuitry development facilitate enhanced sensing performance. Articles relating to data processing, such as techniques for interfacing sensors, extracting key features from response data, or improving electronic performance, are welcome for submission.
We invite both original research articles and review papers to be submitted for consideration.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Vincent Tim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- materials for metal oxide gas sensors
- signal processing techniques for sensing applications
- novel applications of metal oxide sensors
- air quality analysis
- environmental monitoring
- electronic nose/electronic tongue
- VOC sensing
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