Metal oxides possess exceptional potential as base materials in emerging technologies. In
recent times, significant amount of research works is carried out on these materials to assess …

Gas sensors are employed in many applications including detection of toxic and
combustible gases, monitoring emissions from vehicles and other combustion processes …

The effect of grain size on the sensitivity of chemoresistive nanocrystalline metal-oxide gas
sensors was evaluated by calculating the effective carrier concentration as a function of the …

Tin dioxide is the most commonly used material in commercial gas sensors based on
semiconducting metal oxides. Despite intensive efforts, the mechanism responsible for gas …

The charge of adsorbed oxygen species such as O− ad, O− 2, ad or O2− 2, ad
electrostatically affects the kinetics of the oxygen exchange reaction (1/2O2+ 2e− O2−) …

Transition metal oxides with mobile electrons and oxygen ions (mixed conductors) constitute
a broad class of materials that include selective oxidation catalysts, high-temperature …

Dissipated power in metal oxide nanowires (r NW< 45 nm) often causes important self-
heating effects and as a result, undesired aging and failure of the devices. Nevertheless, this …

We have investigated the effects of oxygen plasma treatment on the UV detection properties
of ultrathin (∼ 20-nm-thick) ZnO epitaxial films. Highly epitaxial ZnO films grown on sapphire …

Chemical and physical synthesis routes were combined to prepare macroporous
CaCu3Ti4O12 thin films by pulsed laser deposition onto poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) …

Electrospinning provides a simple and versatile route to produce nanocrystalline metal
oxide layers with a highly porous fibrous morphology. The combination of small grain size …