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However, the performance of such sensors is significantly influenced by the morphology and structure of sensing materials, resulting in a great obstacle for gas sensors based on bulk materials or dense films to achieve highly-sensitive properties. Lots of metal oxide nanostructures have been developed to improve the gas sensing properties such as sensitivity, selectivity, response speed, and so on. Here, we provide a brief overview of metal oxide nanostructures and their gas sensing properties from the aspects of particle size, morphology and doping. When the particle size of metal oxide is close to or less than double thickness of the space-charge layer, the sensitivity of the sensor will increase remarkably, which would be called \u201csmall size effect\u201d, yet small size of metal oxide nanoparticles will be compactly sintered together during the film coating process which is disadvantage for gas diffusion in them. In view of those reasons, nanostructures with many kinds of shapes such as porous nanotubes, porous nanospheres and so on have been investigated, that not only possessed large surface area and relatively mass reactive sites, but also formed relatively loose film structures which is an advantage for gas diffusion. Besides, doping is also an effective method to decrease particle size and improve gas sensing properties. Therefore, the gas sensing properties of metal oxide nanostructures assembled by nanoparticles are reviewed in this article. The effect of doping is also summarized and finally the perspectives of metal oxide gas sensor are given.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s120302610","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,27]],"date-time":"2012-02-27T11:44:40Z","timestamp":1330343080000},"page":"2610-2631","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1101,"title":["Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Gas Sensing Properties: A Review"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yu-Feng","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu 241000, China"},{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"},{"name":"Wuhu Returned Overseas Students\u2019 Enterprise Park, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shao-Bo","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhu Returned Overseas Students\u2019 Enterprise Park, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2477-1542","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fan-Li","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jin-Yun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhen","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ling-Tao","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jin-Huai","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Biomimetic Functional Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1016\/j.snb.2004.02.024","article-title":"An electronic nose based on solid state sensor arrays for low-cost indoor air quality monitoring applications","volume":"101","author":"Zampolli","year":"2004","journal-title":"Sens. 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