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Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ram Sevak Singh, A. Nirmala Grace, Kalim Deshmukh
  • Language: English

Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities and Challenges provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resour… Read more

Description

Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities and Challenges provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the use of 2D materials for gas sensing. It addresses the fundamental properties, synthesis methods, and physicochemical characterization of a wide range of 2D materials —including graphene, MXenes, metal oxides, chalcogenides, and emerging frameworks—tailored for sensor technologies. The book covers gas sensing mechanisms, device integration, strategies for performance enhancement, and the latest advances in theoretical and computational methodologies. It facilitates informed material selection, device design, and performance optimization. The book focuses on reliability, scalability, and the challenges of commercializing 2D material-based gas sensors and discusses 2D nanostructures for advanced sensor applications, highlighting their unique surface properties, high sensitivity, and compatibility with miniaturized devices. This book is structured to benefit graduate students, researchers, and professionals in materials science, nanotechnology, and sensor development, the text spans foundational insights, comparative assessments, and prospective directions that support both academic research and industrial innovation.

Key features

  • Focuses on synthesis, processing, characterization, device fabrication, and performance optimization
  • Emphasizes challenges and solutions for commercialization and real-world deployment
  • Provides unique insights into defect engineering, surface modification, and heterostructures
  • Discusses computational, AI, and modeling strategies for sensor design, covering both fundamentals and advanced, application-driven topics

Readership

Graduate students, researchers, and engineers in materials science, engineering, nanotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry, and related fields. It is also relevant for faculty members at universities, research institutes, and engineering colleges, as well as industry researchers working directly with sensor technology and advanced applications.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to 2D Materials. Historical Background, Classifications, Structures, Physicochemical Properties, and Perspectives in Gas Sensing Applications

2. Synthesis Methods of 2D Materials for Gas Sensing

3. Surface Chemistry, Morphology and Electronic Properties of 2D Materials

4. Defect Engineering and Surface Modification of 2D Materials for Gas Sensing

5. Gas Sensors Based on 2D Materials. Classifications, Sensing Mechanisms, Device Configurations and Strategies for Performance Optimization

6. 2D Metal Oxides Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

7. 2D Graphene and Its Derivatives Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

8. 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitrides for Gas Sensing Applications

9. 2D Transition Metal Chalcogenides Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

10. Black Phosphorous Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

11. 2D Boron Nitrides Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

12. 2D MXenes Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

13. 2D Metal Organic Frameworks Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

14. 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks Based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

15. 2D Layered Double Hydroxides for Gas Sensing Applications

16. 2D Beryllium Based Materials for Gas Sensing. Properties, Challenges and Future Prospects

17. Conventional Thin Film Metal Oxides and 2D Materials Based Gas Sensors. A Comparative Study

18. Heterostructures of 2D Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

19. Comparison of Different 2D Materials Based Gas Sensors. Advantages and Limitations

20. Advanced Computational Methodologies and Theoretical Aspects of 2D Materials Based Gas Sensors

21. Reliability, Stability, Commercialization Aspects, Industrial Relevance, Challenges and Future Perspectives of 2D Materials in Gas Sensing Applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Ram Sevak Singh

Dr. Ram Sevak Singh is Senior Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, OP Jindal University, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India. He received his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore and an MTech (Materials Science and Engineering) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His areas of interest include materials science and nanotechnology, surface science, and computational materials science. Dr. Singh has more than ten years of research experience and has worked in the fields of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and other two-dimensional (2D) materials using experimental approaches, as well as nanotubes using computational approaches. He has authored numerous research articles, books, and book chapters published by highly reputed international journals and publishers.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Associate Professor, Department of Physics, OP Jindal University, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India.

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A. Nirmala Grace

A Nirmala Grace is a Professor at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, India.  Her research interests include energy materials, electrodes for supercapacitors, engineering of inter-layer spaces in 2D materials to improve ion accessibility, tuning the structure and porosity of electrode materials, transparent photovoltaics for device and surface integration, and flexible energy devices for conversion and storage.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, India

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Kalim Deshmukh

Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization, and property investigations of novel polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers, including various nanomaterials including carbon-based materials such as carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, and MXenes for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic