Progressive Trends in Hybrid Material-Based Chemiresistive Sensors for Nitroaromatic Compounds

In the last decades, development of hybrid materials, especially inorganic-organic materials, coordination polymers, conducting polymers, carbon materials, and many more, has produced breakthroughs in diverse applications. Various advance materials have been reported in the literature using metal organic frameworks (MOFs), which compensate for the limitations of sensors. Diverse combinations of HMs not only offer excellent features, but also give a ray of hope for unprecedented advances in materials in different research areas, such as sensing, energy storage, catalysis, non-linear optics, drug-delivery systems, gas storage, etc. Chemiresistor sensors are a core enabling sensor technology and have led to much progress in the field of material science. Here, we have reviewed the recent progress in chemiresistive sensors based on HMs for nitroaromatic compounds, which could be beneficial for researchers that explore this field further. We have put emphasis on sensing mechanisms and the performance of diverse HMs for nitroaromatic sensing applications including pesticides, pollutants, explosives, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In the end, we explored opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives in this emerging field.

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The development of hybrid materials, especially metal organic frameworks (MOFs), has led to breakthroughs in various applications, such as sensing, energy storage, catalysis, etc. Chemiresistor sensors based on hybrid materials have shown significant progress in nitroaromatic compound sensing. This review emphasizes sensing mechanisms and the performance of different hybrid materials.