Semiconducting Metal Oxides for Gas Sensing

The second edition of this book focuses on the synthesis, design, and application of semiconducting metal oxides as gas sensing materials, including the gas sensing mechanism, and modification methods for sensing materials, while also providing a comprehensive introduction to semiconductor gas sensing devices. As an essential part of IoT (Internet of things), gas sensors have shown great significance and promising prospects. Therefore, studies on functional mesoporous metal oxides, one of the most important gas sensing materials based on their unique Knudsen diffusion behavior and tailored pore structure, have increasingly attracted attention from various disciplines. The book offers a valuable reference guide to metal oxide gas sensing materials for undergraduate and graduate students alike. It will also benefit all researchers who are involved in synthesis and gas sensing of metal oxides nanomaterials with relevant frontier theories and concepts. Engineers working on research and development of semiconductor gas sensors will also find some new ideas for sensor design.

Dr. Yonghui Deng received his B.S. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Nanchang University, China in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2005. From 2009 to 2010, Dr. Deng worked as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a professor at Fudan University since 2011 and has published over 190 peer-reviewed journal papers with a total citation of over 17000 times (H index: 68). He received the first prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2020 (the third place among winners) and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2021, and he was elected as the Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2020. His research interests include functional porous materials and their applications in catalysis, chemical sensor, and biomedicine.