
Complex and Composite Metal Oxides for Gas, VOC and Humidity Sensors, Volume 2
Technology and New Trends
- 1st Edition - March 22, 2024
- Editors: Bal Chandra Yadav, Pragati Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 7 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 7 7 - 8
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Technology and New Trends provides an overview of the advanced nanocomposite metal oxide
materials used in sensors for environmental monitoring applications. Volume 2 discusses the state of the art in synthesis methods of innovative morphology, metal oxide hybrids, and heterostructures. It also describes the new generation of complex materials such as perovskites, spinel ferrites, and quaternary type-based gas and VOC sensors. This volume includes a brief discussion of advanced strategies for the development of futuristic sensors with properties such as room temperature operation, self-power generation, self-healability, flexibility, and wearability.
- Provides an overview of the material preparation and synthesis strategies of metal oxide composite and metal oxide hybrid materials for use in gas and humidity sensors
- Reviews emerging advanced metal oxide materials such as perovskites, spinel ferrites, and quaternary materials for gas and VOC sensors
- Discusses the potential opportunities as well as challenges to be circumvented in the use of metal oxide materials to enable new sensor technologies
Materials Scientists and Engineers in academia and R&D, Environmental Scientists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Series editor biography
- Preface
- Preface to the series
- Part 1: Synthesis methods and strategies applied for metal oxide nanocomposites based gas and VOC sensors
- Chapter 1 Features of preparing metal oxide nanocomposites: General consideration
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Needs of composites
- 1.3 Features of nanocomposites
- 1.4 Tuning of the desired properties
- 1.5 Applications of nanocomposites
- 1.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2 Synthesis of heterostructure metal oxide nanocomposites and their gas-sensing properties
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Synthesis methods and characterizations
- 2.3 Conclusion and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 3 Synthesis of metal oxide composite nanofibers by electrospinning and its application in gas and VOC sensors
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Electrospinning technique
- 3.3 1D nanomaterials
- 3.4 Types of nanofibers
- 3.5 Gas-sensing characteristics of metal oxide nanofibers
- 3.6 Summary
- References
- Chapter 4 Metal oxide based bi/multilayer thin film heterostructures for gas sensing applications
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Heterostructures categories
- 4.3 Overview of the fabrication techniques
- 4.4 Gas sensors based on multilayered n–n, p–n, and p–p heterostructures
- 4.5 Gas sensing mechanism in multilayered metal oxide heterostructures
- 4.6 Conclusion, future trends, and challenges
- References
- Chapter 5 Inkjet printing of MOx-based heterostructures for gas sensing and safety applications—Recent trends, challenges, and future scope
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 MoO3
- 5.3 CuO and Cu2O
- 5.4 SnO2
- 5.5 Mn3O4 and WO3
- 5.6 ZnO
- 5.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6 Improving the parameters of metal oxide gas sensors through doping
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Doping of SMOs
- 6.3 Bulk and surface doping
- 6.4 Enhanced performance of gas sensors due to doping
- 6.5 Advantages of doping
- 6.6 The advantages and characteristics of metal oxide composite–based 1D nanomaterials over other existing nanomaterials for gas sensing
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 6.8 Future scope
- References
- Chapter 7 Metal oxide composite-based 1D nanomaterials and its gas-sensing characteristics
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Nanostructure sensor device structures
- 7.3 Synthesis of 1D metal oxide composite nanomaterials
- 7.4 Advantages and characterization of 1-D metal oxide composite nanomaterials
- 7.5 1-D metal oxide composite nanomaterials gas-sensing applications
- 7.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8 2D and 3D nanomaterials-based metal oxide composites and their applications in gas sensing
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Operating procedure for gas sensors
- 8.3 Methods of altering gas sensor efficiency
- 8.4 Various applications of gas sensors
- 8.5 Conclusion and future prospective
- References
- Chapter 9 Composite based on metal oxides and 2D metal dichalcogenides for gas sensing
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Gas-sensing mechanism of composite based on metal oxides and 2D metal dichalcogenides
- 9.3 Gas-sensing mechanism for 2D/MOx nanocomposite
- 9.4 2D metal dichalcogenide/MOx-based gas sensors
- 9.5 VOC sensors
- 9.6 Conclusions
- 9.7 Future prospects
- References
- Chapter 10 Graphene-metal oxide hybrids and their gas-sensing characteristics
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Bottom-up approach
- 10.3 Electrodeposition method
- 10.4 Other strategies
- 10.5 2D material: Graphene-metal oxide hybrids
- 10.6 Gas-sensing characteristics graphene-metal oxide hybrids
- 10.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11 Metal oxide-zeolite hybrid-based VOC sensors
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Applications of metal oxide-zeolite hybrid-based VOCs sensors
- 11.3 Fabrication strategies of metal oxide-zeolite hybrid-based gas sensors
- 11.4 Modification of microporous membranes of zeolites for various VOC traces
- 11.5 Characterization of metal oxide-zeolite hybrid-based gas sensors
- 11.6 Challenges related to metal oxide-zeolite hybrid-based gas sensors
- 11.7 Summary and future perspectives
- References
- Part 2: Complex metal oxide compounds for electrical gas and VOC sensors
- Chapter 12 Perovskites (ABO3) and their prospects for gas sensor application
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Structure of perovskite oxides
- 12.3 Factors influencing the gas sensor response
- 12.4 Perovskites and gas sensing
- 12.5 Summary
- References
- Chapter 13 ABO4 and AB2O6 structured metal oxide-based gas sensors
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Crystal structures of ABO4 and AB2O6 metal oxides
- 13.3 Gas sensing mechanisms in ABO4 and AB2O6 metal oxides
- 13.4 Gas sensing performance of ABO4 and AB2O6 metal oxides
- 13.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 14 Gas-sensing characteristics of AB2O4 (spinel ferrites)-structured metal oxides
- Abstract
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Influencing parameters
- 14.3 Gas sensor applications
- 14.4 Gas-sensing mechanism
- 14.5 Future perspectives
- 14.6 Summary
- References
- Chapter 15 Quaternary and more complex metal oxide compounds for gas sensor design
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Quaternary and complex metal oxide semiconductors
- 15.3 Advantage
- 15.4 Conclusion
- References
- Part 3: Advanced strategies for future metal oxide nanocomposites-based sensors
- Chapter 16 Room temperature gas and VOCs sensors based on metal oxide composites
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Sensing principle
- 16.3 Composite materials
- 16.4 Future trends and challenges
- References
- Chapter 17 Self-powered gas and humidity sensors
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Self-powered gas and humidity sensor
- 17.3 Uses of 2D nanomaterials in gas and humidity sensors
- 17.4 Metal oxide-based gas self-powered gas and humidity sensors
- 17.5 Mechanism of self-powered gas and humidity sensors
- 17.6 Self-heating sensor
- 17.7 Self-powered PENG and TENG
- 17.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 18 Wearable and flexible nanocomposite-based gas sensors
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Development of wearable gas devices
- 18.3 Manufacturing technologies
- 18.4 Applications of wearables gas sensors
- 18.5 Wearable touch gas sensors
- 18.6 Smart sensors for the future
- 18.7 Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 18.8 Challenges related to nanocomposite-based flexible wearable gas sensors
- 18.9 Conclusion and remarks
- References
- Chapter 19 Self-healing materials for highly sensitive gas sensors and for other applications
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Fundamentals of self-healing materials
- 19.3 Sensing mechanisms in self-healing materials functionalized with oxide nanocomposites
- 19.4 Self-healing materials for sensing
- 19.5 Self-healing materials for biomedical sensing
- 19.6 Self-healing materials for electronics and wearable sensing
- 19.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 20 Isolated single-atomic-site (ISAS) materials for gas and VOC detection
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Synthesis of isolated single-atomic-site (ISAS) materials
- 20.3 Characterization of ISAS materials
- 20.4 Isolated single-atomic-site materials for gas and VOC sensing
- 20.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 21 Metal-oxide nanocomposites for microbial volatile organic compounds
- Abstract
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 Importance of VOCs
- 21.3 Classification of mVOCs
- 21.4 Impact of mVOCs on the environment
- 21.5 mVOCs mitigation
- 21.6 mVOCs production
- 21.7 Disease and food quality issues
- 21.8 mVOCs as indicators of microbial contamination of food
- 21.9 Determination of mVOCs
- 21.10 Mechanism of toxicity
- 21.11 Metal-oxide nanocomposites-based mVOCs
- 21.12 Characterization of metal oxide-based mVOCs
- 21.13 Conclusion
- 21.14 Future scope
- References
- Appendix A Database of critical materials applied as VOC sensors
- Index
- No. of pages: 732
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 22, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323954761
- eBook ISBN: 9780323954778
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