Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications
Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
- 1st Edition - December 16, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ram Sevak Singh, Andrews 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
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. The book 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 that are tailored for sensor technologies. Sections also cover gas sensing mechanisms, device integration, strategies for performance enhancement, and the latest advances in theoretical and computational methodologies.
Users will find this to be a resource that facilitates informed material selection, device design, and performance optimization while also focusing on reliability, scalability, and the challenges of commercializing 2D material-based gas sensors. In addition, sections discuss 2D nanostructures for advanced sensor applications, highlighting their unique surface properties, high sensitivity, and compatibility with miniaturized devices.
Users will find this to be a resource that facilitates informed material selection, device design, and performance optimization while also focusing on reliability, scalability, and the challenges of commercializing 2D material-based gas sensors. In addition, sections discuss 2D nanostructures for advanced sensor applications, highlighting their unique surface properties, high sensitivity, and compatibility with miniaturized devices.
Key features
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
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
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
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
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 16, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
Ram Sevak Singh
Editor
Dr. Ram Sevak Singh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Uttar Pradesh, 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
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaAndrews Nirmala Grace
Editor
Andrews 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, IndiaKalim Deshmukh
Editor
Dr. Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience in nanomaterials and polymeric materials, with particular expertise in polymer blends, nanocomposites, and nanohybrids. His work emphasizes nanoscale dispersion, interfacial chemistry, and structure–property relationships that influence material performance in applications such as energy storage, gas sensing, biosensing, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, and high-k dielectrics. He has authored more than 200 publications, including original research articles and review papers, in leading international journals and with major publishers, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Chemical Society (ACS), Elsevier, Wiley-VCH, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. In addition to his research contributions, he has edited or co-edited several books published by ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-VCH, and Wiley Scrivener.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic