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Overview

Nicolae Barsan is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering, chemical engineering, and materials science, with notable contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

Their work focuses extensively on gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, analytical chemistry and sensors, and advanced chemical sensor technologies. Other key topics in their research portfolio include ZnO doping and properties, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, spectroscopy and laser applications, and MXene and MAX phase materials.

Barsan has published extensively in several scientific venues. Their most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • ACS Sensors
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts

Their recent publications highlight various aspects of gas sensor research:

  • Current state of knowledge on the metal oxide based gas sensing mechanism, 2022, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • WO3-Based Gas Sensors: Identifying Inherent Qualities and Understanding the Sensing Mechanism, 2020, ACS Sensors
  • MoO3/TiO2/Ti3C2Tx nanocomposite based gas sensors for highly sensitive and selective isopropanol detection at room temperature, 2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Unraveling the Surface Chemistry of CO Sensing with In2O3 Based Gas Sensors, 2020, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • Effects of Gas Adsorption Properties of an Au-Loaded Porous In2O3 Sensor on NO2-Sensing Properties, 2021, ACS Sensors

Barsan frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Udo Weimar
  • Benjamin Junker
  • Anna Staerz
  • André Sackmann
  • Arne Kobald

Best Publications

  • Conduction Model of Metal Oxide Gas Sensors

    Nicolae Barsan;Udo Weimar

  • Metal oxide-based gas sensor research: How to?

    N. Barsan;D. Koziej;U. Weimar

  • Electronic nose: current status and future trends.

    Frank Röck;Nicolae Barsan;Udo Weimar

  • Fundamental and practical aspects in the design of nanoscaled SnO2 gas sensors : a status report

    N. Barsan;Markus Schweizer-Berberich;Wolfgang Göpel

  • Micromachined metal oxide gas sensors: opportunities to improve sensor performance

    Isolde Simon;Nicolae Bârsan;Michael Bauer;Udo Weimar

  • Understanding the fundamental principles of metal oxide based gas sensors; the example of CO sensing with SnO2 sensors in the presence of humidity

    N Bârsan;U Weimar

  • Influence of humidity on CO sensing with p-type CuO thick film gas sensors

    M. Hübner;C.E. Simion;A. Tomescu-Stănoiu;S. Pokhrel

  • The Role of NiO Doping in Reducing the Impact of Humidity on the Performance of SnO2-Based Gas Sensors: Synthesis Strategies, and Phenomenological and Spectroscopic Studies

    Hae Ryong Kim;Alexander Haensch;Il Doo Kim;Nicolae Barsan

  • Current Understanding of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Doped and Loaded Semiconducting Metal-Oxide-Based Gas Sensing Materials.

    David Degler;Udo Weimar;Nicolae Barsan

  • Template-free synthesis and assembly of single-crystalline tungsten oxide nanowires and their gas-sensing properties.

    Julien Polleux;Alexander Gurlo;Nicolae Barsan;Udo Weimar

  • In2O3 and MoO3–In2O3 thin film semiconductor sensors: interaction with NO2 and O3

    A. Gurlo;N. Bârsan;M. Ivanovskaya;U. Weimar

  • Modeling of sensing and transduction for p-type semiconducting metal oxide based gas sensors

    N. Barsan;C. Simion;T. Heine;S. Pokhrel

  • Gas identification by modulating temperatures of SnO2-based thick film sensors

    A. Heilig;N. Bârsan;U. Weimar;M. Schweizer-Berberich

  • Analysis of the noble metal catalytic additives introduced by impregnation of as obtained SnO2 sol–gel nanocrystals for gas sensors

    A. Cabot;J. Arbiol;J.R. Morante;U. Weimar

  • Direct formation of highly porous gas-sensing films by in situ thermophoretic deposition of flame-made Pt/SnO2 nanoparticles

    Lutz Mädler;Albert Roessler;Sotiris E. Pratsinis;T. Sahm

  • Grain size control in nanocrystalline In2O3 semiconductor gas sensors

    A Gurlo;M Ivanovskaya;N Bârsan;M Schweizer-Berberich

  • Flame spray synthesis of tin dioxide nanoparticles for gas sensing

    T Sahm;L Mädler;A Gurlo;N Barsan

  • Conduction mechanisms in SnO2 based polycrystalline thick film gas sensors exposed to CO and H2 in different oxygen backgrounds

    N. Bârsan;M. Hübner;U. Weimar

  • An n- to p-type conductivity transition induced by oxygen adsorption on α-Fe2O3

    A. Gurlo;N. Bârsan;A. Oprea;M. Sahm

  • Design and fabrication of high-temperature micro-hotplates for drop-coated gas sensors

    D Briand;A Krauss;B van der Schoot;U Weimar

  • Influence of the catalytic introduction procedure on the nano-SnO2 gas sensor performances

    A Cabot;A Diéguez;A Romano-Rodrı́guez;J.R Morante

  • Current state of knowledge on the metal oxide based gas sensing mechanism

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Weimar
Udo Weimar University of Tübingen
Lutz Mädler
Lutz Mädler University of Bremen
Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt
Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Danick Briand
Danick Briand École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
N. F. de Rooij
N. F. de Rooij École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Tong Zhang
Tong Zhang Jilin University
Aleksander Gurlo
Aleksander Gurlo Technical University of Berlin
Ralf Riedel
Ralf Riedel Technical University of Darmstadt

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