An electronic nose (e‐nose) is a device that can detect and recognize odors and flavors using a sensor array. It has received considerable interest in the past decade because it is required in several areas such as health care, environmental monitoring, industrial applications, automobile, food storage, and military. However, there are still obstacles in developing a portable e‐nose that can be used for a wide variety of applications. For practical applications of an e‐nose, it is necessary to collect a massive amount of data from various sensing materials that can transduce interactions with molecules reliably and analyze them via pattern recognition. In addition, the possibility of miniaturizing the e‐nose and operating it with low power consumption should be considered. Moreover, it should work efficiently over a long period of time. To satisfy these requirements, several different chemoresistive material platforms including metal oxides, organics such as polymers and carbon‐based materials, and two‐dimensional materials were investigated as sensor elements for an e‐nose. As an individual material has limited selectivity, there is a continuing effort to improve the selectivity and gas sensing properties through surface decoration and compositional and structural variations. To produce a reliable e‐nose, which can be used for practical applications, researches in various fields have to be harmonized. This paper reviews the progress of research on e‐noses based on a chemoresistive gas sensor array and discusses the inherent challenges and potential solutions.

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted enormous attention in diverse research fields. Especially, gas sensors are considered in a promising application exploiting TMDs. However, the studies are confined to only major TMDs such as MoS 2 and WS 2 . Particularly, the chemoresistive sensing properties of two-dimensional (2D) NbS 2 have never been explored. For the first time, we report room temperature NO 2 sensing characteristics of 2D NbS 2 nanosheets and the sensing mechanisms using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The results demonstrate that the NbS 2 edges possessing different configurations depending on synthetic conditions differ in the sensing ability of the TMD nanosheets. This study not only broadens the potential of 2D NbS 2 for gas sensing applications, but also presents the important role of edge configuration of TMDs depending on synthetic conditions for further studies.

Transition metal disulfides have been attracting significant attentions in recent years. There are extensive applications of transition metal disulfides, especially on gas sensing applications, due to their large specific surface-to-volume ratios, high sensitivity to adsorption of gas molecules and tunable surface functionality depending on the decoration species or functional groups. However, there are several drawbacks such as poor gas selectivity, sluggish recovery characteristics and difficulty in the fabrication of large-scale devices. Here, we provide a review of recent progress on the chemoresistive gas sensing properties of two-dimensional transition metal disulfides. This review also provides various methods to enhance the gas sensing performance of two-dimensional disulfides, such as surface functionalization, decoration receptor functions and developing nanostructures.

Detection of ppb level ammonia at room temperature is demonstrated using chemically fluorinated graphene oxide (CFGO). Fluorine adatom extremely enhances ammonia sensing capabilities through the changes of the charge distributions on adjacent functional groups, resulting in the variation in gas adsorption energies.