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Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Sensors

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At present time, environmental/atmospheric pollutions are a serious issue worldwide. These pollutants contain various toxic and hazardous gases, so the detection and monitoring of these toxic gases are needed and key challenges. Nowadays, various kinds of nanomaterials including metal oxides, conducting polymers, carbon-based materials (CNTs, graphene and graphene derivatives), and TMDS-based sensors have been developed by different research groups. But the selectivity is a vital problem and challenge. To enhance the selectivity of gas sensors metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials. It’s a new type of porous and crystalline material, which plays a vital role in the detection of different type of gases. MOFs are a category of compounds entailing metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic ligands that consolidate themselves into the rigid crystal structure. They have incomparable physical and chemical properties, such as ultra-high porosity, high thermal and chemical permanence, and tunable structure. These mesmerizing properties make MOFs appropriate for new-generation sensing devices. This artefact concentrates on contemporary advancement in the rational design and synthesis of MOFs and their sensing application including the challenges and opportunities in their path. In this book chapter, we have discussed the synthesis of MOFs and their derivatives with other materials (metal oxide and carbon materials) and their sensing performance. Also, described the sensing mechanism and future opportunities and challenges.

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Mr Ajeet Singh is thankful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, for financial support in the form of Senior Research Fellowship (F.No: 16-9 June 2017/2018 NET/CSIR).

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    Ajeet Singh & Bal Chandra Yadav

  2. Integrated Basic Science, School of Physical and Decision Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, 226025, India

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Singh, A., Sikarwar, S., Yadav, B.C. (2022). Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Sensors. In: Sonker, R.K., Singh, K., Sonkawade, R. (eds) Smart Nanostructure Materials and Sensor Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2685-3_11

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