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Hierarchical Oxide Nanostructures-Based Gas Sensor: Recent Advances

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Chemoresistive sensors based on metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) materials have been extensively investigated for the sake of identifying various toxic, hazardous, and explosive gases owing to their exceptional benefits, for example, such as outstanding sensitivity, cost-effectiveness, ease of fabrication, and facile integration. Over the years, it has been understood that factors that signifies sensing properties such as gas response, selectivity, stability, and promptness to response/recovery relies upon materials and morphology sensing materials, transducer designs, and few other factors. However, sluggish response, selectivity issues in real environment, higher operational temperature, and thermomechanical stability limits its widespread applications in the field of gases as well as organic vapor monitoring. In view of the above challenges, severe efforts have been made by scientific community to offset the as-described deficiencies by multiple strategies. In this aspect, oxide-based hierarchical nanostructures display strong interactions with the reacting species, eventually yielding outstanding sensing properties in comparison to other simple nano- and/or microstructures. A vast range of diverse morphologies and nano-, micro-, or mesoscale structures have been studied during recent past, each one revealing promising sensing properties toward specific chemical compounds. This chapter summarizes a comprehensive database based on previous notable works as well as latest developments in the synthesis, fabrication, and characterization of hierarchical metal oxide-based gas sensors for multiple applications.

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Sinha, S.K., Poddar, S., Ganguly, S. (2020). Hierarchical Oxide Nanostructures-Based Gas Sensor: Recent Advances. In: Thomas, S., Joshi, N., Tomer, V. (eds) Functional Nanomaterials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4810-9_7

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