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2012

Overview

Sheikh A. Akbar is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the areas of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields, notably Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

The main topics of Akbar's research include Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors, Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors. Their investigations also cover Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, ZnO doping and properties, as well as Conducting polymers and applications.

Frequent co-authors in their publications are Ahmad Umar, Ahmed A. Ibrahim, Sotirios Baskoutas, Rohit Goyat, and Hassan Algadi, indicating collaboration within a diverse research network.

Their recent published papers feature works such as:

  • Nanomaterials-based biosensor and their applications: A review (2023) in Heliyon
  • Editors' Choice-Critical Review-A Critical Review of Solid State Gas Sensors (2020) in Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Gas sensors and factors influencing sensing mechanism with a special focus on MOS sensors (2023) in Journal of Materials Science
  • Zinc Oxide-Based Acetone Gas Sensors for Breath Analysis: A Review (2021) in Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • Selectivity mechanisms in resistive-type metal oxide heterostructural gas sensors (2021) in Sensors and Actuators B Chemical

Akbar's research frequently appears in venues such as Chemosphere, Molecules, Ceramics International, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Environmental Research. These journals and conference proceedings reflect a substantive contribution to environmental and materials science domains.

Best Publications

  • Nanoscale metal oxide-based heterojunctions for gas sensing: A review

    Derek R. Miller;Sheikh A. Akbar;Patricia A. Morris

  • Role of Oxygen Vacancies in Nanostructured Metal-Oxide Gas Sensors: A Review

    Mohamad Al-Hashem;Sheikh Akbar;Patricia Morris

  • Gas sensors based on one dimensional nanostructured metal-oxides: a review.

    M. M. Arafat;B. Dinan;Sheikh A. Akbar;A. S. M. A. Haseeb

  • Oxygen sensors: Materials, methods, designs and applications

    R. Ramamoorthy;P. K. Dutta;S. A. Akbar

  • Synergistic effects in gas sensing semiconducting oxide nano-heterostructures: A review

    Janine M. Walker;Sheikh A. Akbar;Patricia A. Morris

  • Solid‐State Gas Sensors: A Review

    A. M. Azad;S. A. Akbar;S. G. Mhaisalkar;L. D. Birkefeld

  • Bismuth oxide-based solid electrolytes for fuel cells

    A. M. Azad;S. Larose;S. A. Akbar

  • Characterization of Submicron Particles of Tetragonal BaTiO3

    Reza Asiaie;Weidong Zhu;Sheikh A. Akbar;Prabir K. Dutta

  • Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Detection by Anatase Modification of Titanium Dioxide

    Lora D. Birkefeld;Abdul M. Azad;Sheikh A. Akbar

  • Composite n–p semiconducting titanium oxides as gas sensors

    Nancy Savage;Brian Chwieroth;Arwa Ginwalla;Bruce R. Patton

  • Review of titania nanotubes: Fabrication and cellular response

    A.W. Tan;B. Pingguan-Murphy;R. Ahmad;S.A. Akbar

  • Titanium dioxide based high temperature carbon monoxide selective sensor

    Nancy O. Savage;Sheikh A. Akbar;Prabir K. Dutta

  • Ceramics for chemical sensing

    Chong-Ook Park;SA Akbar

  • A selective room temperature formaldehyde gas sensor using TiO2 nanotube arrays

    Shiwei Lin;Dongrong Li;Jian Wu;Xiaogan Li

  • Hydrothermal Synthesis and Dielectric Properties of Tetragonal BaTiO3

    Prabir K. Dutta;Reza Asiaie;Sheikh A. Akbar;Weidong Zhu

  • High-Temperature Ceramic Gas Sensors: A Review

    Sheikh Akbar;Prabir Dutta;Chonghoon Lee

  • Enhanced room temperature sensing of Co3O4-intercalated reduced graphene oxide based gas sensors

    Ning Chen;Xiaogan Li;Xueyan Wang;Jun Yu

  • Pyrolysis of Negative Photoresists to Fabricate Carbon Structures for Microelectromechanical Systems and Electrochemical Applications

    Amit Singh;Jaishankar Jayaram;Marc Madou;Sheikh Akbar

  • Interaction of Carbon Monoxide with Anatase Surfaces at High Temperatures: Optimization of a Carbon Monoxide Sensor

    Prabir K. Dutta;Arwa Ginwalla;Brian Hogg;Bruce R. Patton

  • Conduction mechanisms in one dimensional core-shell nanostructures for gas sensing: A review

    Priyanka Karnati;Sheikh Akbar;Patricia A. Morris

  • Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) decorated TiO2 microspheres for selective room-temperature gas sensors

    Xiaogan Li;Yangyang Zhao;Xueyan Wang;Jing Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Prabir K. Dutta
Prabir K. Dutta The Ohio State University
Belinda Pingguan-Murphy
Belinda Pingguan-Murphy University of Malaya
A.S.M.A. Haseeb
A.S.M.A. Haseeb Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Subodh G. Mhaisalkar
Subodh G. Mhaisalkar Nanyang Technological University
Kenneth H. Sandhage
Kenneth H. Sandhage Purdue University West Lafayette
Henk Verweij
Henk Verweij The Ohio State University
Shiwei Lin
Shiwei Lin Hainan University
David W. McComb
David W. McComb The Ohio State University
Marc J. Madou
Marc J. Madou University of California, Irvine
Alexander Gaskov
Alexander Gaskov Lomonosov Moscow State University

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