https://www.selleckchem.com/products/pamapimod-r-1503-ro4402257.html Day by day, the demand for portable, low cost, and efficient chemical/gas-sensing devices is increasing due to worldwide industrial growth for various purposes such as environmental monitoring and health care. To fulfill this demand, nanostructured metal oxides can be used as active materials for chemical/gas sensors due to their high crystallinity, remarkable physical/chemical properties, ease of synthesis, and low cost. In particular, (1D) one-dimensional metal oxides nanostructures, such as nanowires, exhibit a fast response, selectivity, and stability due to their high surface-to-volume ratio, well-defined crystal orientations, controlled unidirectional electrical properties, and self-heating phenomenon. Moreover, with the availability of large-scale production methods for nanowire growth such as thermal oxidation and evaporation-condensation growth, the development of highly efficient, low cost, portable, and stable chemical sensing devices is possible. In the last two decades, tremendous advances have benhance the performance of nanowire-based chemical sensor are presented in detail.The complexation process between anionic ZCl4- (Z = P, As, Sb) and neutral NCH and pyridine, as well as the CN- anion, is studied in both the gas phase and aqueous solution by high-level ab initio calculations. Despite the absence of a positively charged σ-hole on ZCl4-, a pnicogen bond (ZB) holds all of these complexes together. The dimerization induces the ZCl4- to rearrange internally from a see-saw to a square geometry. The complexation process is endothermic for both HCN and CN- in the gas phase but for different reasons. The approach of CN- to ZCl4- must overcome anion-anion Coulomb repulsion, while HCN is a much weaker base. The intermediate nucleophilicity of pyridine leads to an exothermic dimerization reaction despite the deformation of the ZCl4- structure. The dimers must traverse an energy barrier in o