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Overview

Udo Weimar is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant emphasis on chemical engineering. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, bioengineering, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

The main topics explored by Udo Weimar center on gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and analytical chemistry and sensors. Additional research interests include ZnO doping and properties, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, spectroscopy and laser applications, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Udo Weimar has a strong publication record, including notable recent papers such as:

  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "Effect of AgO loading on flame-made LaFeO3 p-type semiconductor nanoparticles to acetylene sensing" (2020, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical)

They have frequently published in these venues:

  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • ACS Sensors
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Among Udo Weimar's frequent coauthors are Nicolae Bârsan, Benjamin Junker, Anna Staerz, André Sackmann, and 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

  • 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

  • Conductance, work function and catalytic activity of SnO2-based gas sensors

    K.D. Schierbaum;U. Weimar;W. Göpel;R. Kowalkowski

  • 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

  • Morphological analysis of nanocrystalline SnO2 for gas sensor applications

    A. Diéguez;A. Romano-Rodríguez;J.R. Morante;U. Weimar

  • 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

  • Detection of volatile compounds correlated to human diseases through breath analysis with chemical sensors

    Maximilian Fleischer;Elfriede Simon;Eva Rumpel;Heiko Ulmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolae Barsan
Nicolae Barsan University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Göpel
Wolfgang Göpel 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
Aleksander Gurlo
Aleksander Gurlo Technical University of Berlin
Joan Ramon Morante
Joan Ramon Morante Catalonia Institute for Energy Research

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