Recent Advances and Applications of Gas Sensors
A Special Issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) belonging to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 690
Editors
Interests: optical sensors; gas sensors; smartphone-based sensors; optoelectronic noses; miniaturization; microfluidics; environmental analysis; environmental analytical chemistry; environmental monitoring; climate change; mass spectrometry; spectrometry; analytical chemistry
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Interests: colorimetric and fluorimetric sensors; analytical instrumentation; internet of analytical things (IoAT); miniaturization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gas analysis is a multidisciplinary field of high relevance in environmental monitoring, healthcare diagnostics, industrial process control, and the forensic sciences. In recent years, considerable efforts have been dedicated to the development of gas sensing platforms that combine low cost, miniaturization, portability, and real-time analysis while maintaining suitable selectivity, sensitivity, and robustness. In parallel, the use of benchtop “gold-standard” instrumentation remains essential for fundamental investigations, validation studies, and the development of novel sensing strategies.
This Special Issue will gather recent advances in gas sensing technologies, analytical methodologies, and applications involving gaseous and volatile compounds. Contributions addressing both fundamental and applied aspects of gas analysis are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Gaseous and volatile compound analysis;
- Advances in gas sensor instrumentation;
- Colorimetric and fluorometric indirect gas sensors;
- Optical gas sensors (e.g., TDLAS, MIR, NIR, PAS, and cavity-enhanced sensors);
- Electrochemical and semiconductor-based gas sensors (e.g., MOX sensors);
- Advances in sample preparation and preconcentration strategies for gas analysis;
- Miniaturized and portable gas sensing devices, including drone-based methods;
- Health monitoring and biomedical applications;
- Environmental monitoring (indoor and outdoor);
- Industrial process monitoring and safety applications;
- Forensic applications of gas sensing;
- Emerging sensing materials and hybrid sensing platforms;
- Artificial intelligence and chemometric approaches for gas sensor data analysis.
Dr. João Flávio Da Silveira Petruci
Prof. Dr. Sidnei Gonçalves Da Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gas sensors
- environmental analysis
- health monitoring
- sample preparation
- instrumentation
- analytical chemistry
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