Soft Materials Lab

Gas Sensing

In current scenario, gas sensors are becoming integral part of human society because of their applications in several fields including environmental monitoring, health analysis, public safety and so on. Our research group mainly focuses on the development of sophisticated and highly efficient gas sensing materials for various gases including hydrogen, ammonia, carbon dioxide, ethanol, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. In addition, we also focuses on different nanostructures of metal oxides to enhance the gas sensing performance. Furthermore, we have also started research on fabricating flexible gas sensors for their uses in wearable electronics. We’re interested in mounting highly functional sensing nanomaterials on flexible substrates like polymeric, textiles and paper.   

Investigating Areas

Metal oxide nanostructures for highly efficient gas sensing
• Conductive polymer based flexible and wearable gas sensors 
• Electrochmeical bio-sensors
  •     Shiv Dutta Lawaniya, Sanjay Kumar, Yeontae Yu, Kamlendra Awasthi
  •     Nitrogen-doped carbon nano-onions/polypyrrole nanocomposite based low-cost flexible sensor for room temperature ammonia detection
  •     Scientific Reports 14 (2024): 7904. More
  •     Gaurav Pandey, Shiv Dutta Lawaniya, Sanjay Kumar, Prabhat K Dwivedi, Kamlendra Awasthi
  •     A highly selective, efficient hydrogen gas sensor based on bimetallic (Pd–Au) alloy nanoparticle (NP)-decorated SnO 2 nanorods
  •     Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11 (48), 26687-26697. More
  •     Gaurav Pandey, Mayank Bhardwaj, Sanjay Kumar, Shiv Dutta Lawaniya, Manoj Kumar, Prabhat K Dwivedi, Kamlendra Awasthi
  •     Synergistic effects of Pd-Ag decoration on SnO/SnO2 nanosheets for enhanced hydrogen sensing
  •     Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 402, (2023), 135062. More
  •     Ramandeep Kaur, Shiv Dutta Lawaniya, Sanjay Kumar, Nishel Saini, Kamlendra Awasthi
  •     Nanoarchitectonics of polyaniline–zinc oxide (PANI–ZnO) nanocomposite for enhanced room temperature ammonia sensing
  •     Applied Physics A, 129, 11, 765. More    
  •    Shiv Dutta Lawaniya, Sanjay Kumar, Yeontae Yu, Kamlendra Awasthi
  •    Ammonia sensing properties of PPy nanostructures (urchins/flowers) towards low-cost and flexible gas sensors at room temperature  
  •    Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical  382 (2023): 133566. More
  •    Ankita Sharma, Ankush Agrawal, Gaurav Pandey, Sanjay Kumar, Kamlendra Awasthi, Anjali Awasthi
  •     Carbon Nano-Onion-Decorated ZnO Composite-Based Enzyme-Less Electrochemical Biosensing Approach for Glucose
  •     ACS Omega 7 (2022) , 37748. More
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