Advanced sensing materials are key to the development of various sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. IoT sensors require lower power consumption, higher sensitivity, better selectivity, lower complexity, higher throughput, and higher cost-effectiveness, which represents a new challenge in the development of sensing materials.

Developments in both sensing materials (to sense defects, porosity, channel traffics, and hybrids) and data processing (such as pattern recognition), together with newly emerging in-situ measurements and theoretical calculations (such as binding energy, charge transfer, or bandgaps) have all contributed to the continued development of high performances sensors. Notably, sensors based on novel nanomaterials exhibit ultrahigh detectivity, specificity, low-power consumption, multifunctionality, and miniaturized size.

This Special Issue is aimed at publishing research and development in the field of advanced sensing materials, including the design and synthesis of materials, novel processing strategies, key performance studies, and the fundamental sensing mechanisms of advanced sensing materials, as well as simulation research. Papers devoted to applications of novel IoT sensors involving advanced sensing materials are also welcome. We welcome both original research and review articles.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Low dimensional nanomaterials with novel sensing properties
• Nanomaterial hybrids/heterostructures with enhanced sensing properties, such as selectivity, operating temperature, sensitivity, frequency response, linearity range, stability, or accuracy
• Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) / metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
• Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and other porous crystalline nanomaterials, such as metal-organic polyhedrons (MOPs) or conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), and their hybrid-based chemical sensors
• Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials
• Fabrication and processing of nanosensors
• Economic and ecological production processes for the fabrication and processing of nanosensors