Prof. Dr. Andreas Güntner

Andreas Güntner is an Assistant Professor at the ETH Zürich, Dept. Mechanical and Process Engineering heading the Human-centered Sensor Laboratory and a research associate at the Univ. Hospital Zürich, Dept. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition. His research centers around physics, chemistry and medicine to gain new fundamental understanding in micro/nanosystems for transducers to advance their fabrication and application in chemical sensing. The development of new technologies from conceptuation to devices with validated performance under real conditions tackling healthcare and environmental issues are a particular emphasis.

Recent research highlights (selected, full list on Google Scholar):

Flame-made chemoresistive gas sensors and devices
  Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
  90,100992 (2022). Invited Review

Handheld device for selective benzene sensing
   over toluene and xylene
  Advanced Science, 9, 2103853 (2022).

The electrophilicity of surface carbon species
   in the redox of CuO-CeO2 catalysts
  Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 60, 14420-14428 (2021).
  Hot paper (top 5%) and Frontispiece

Superior acetone selectivity in gas mixtures by catalyst-filtered
   chemoresistive sensors
  Advanced Science, 7, 2001503 (2020).

A pocket-sized device enables detection of methanol adulteration
   in alcoholic beverages
  Nature Food, 1, 351-354 (2020).

Rapid and selective NH₃ sensing by porous CuBr
  Advanced Science, 7, 1903390 (2020).

Highly selective detection of methanol over
   ethanol by a handheld sensor
  Nature Communications, 10, 4220 (2019).

Breath sensors for health monitoring
  ACS Sensors, 4, 268-280 (2019).
  Invited Perspective

Recent invited/plenary talks (selected)

2022   15th Intl. Ceramices Congress & 9th Forum on New Materials,
           Montecatini Terme, Italy (upcoming)
2021   15th Dresdner Sensorsymposium, Dresden, Germany.
2021   6th Intl. Conference on Advanced Electromaterials, Jeju Island, Korea.
2021   8th Intl. Congress on Ceramics, Busan, Korea.
2020   WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany.
2019   Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science.
2019   Geneva Health Forum, Geneva, Switzerland.
2019   European Congress Chem. Eng., Florence, Italy.
2019   Intl. PTR-MS Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
2018   Intl. Meeting on Chemical Sensors, Vienna, Austria.
2018   Intl. Breath Research Summit, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2018   Technical University of Dortmund, Dept. Electrical Eng.

Patents (filed/granted)

4. WO2020160831A1
3. WO2020144059A1
2. EP3326523B2/US10667722B2
1. WO2018083130A1

Recently in the news

2021  Swiss Innovation Forum (min. 1:55 - 5:20)
2020  SRF show 10vor10 (Swiss national TV, min. 22-28) "Die Idee"
2020  Nature Publishing "Technology: A pocket-sized device that can
          help prevent methanol poisoning"
2019  ETH-News "Measuring ethanol's deadly twin"
2019  RTS show 36,9° (Swiss national TV, min. 47-52) "Tendance jeûne"
2018  Tagesanzeiger "Krankheiten in der Atemluft diagnostizieren"
2018  Sonntagszeitung: "Die Fettverbrennung im Atem messen"
2018  American Chemical Society Press "Portable device to sniff out entrapped
          humans" (ETH News, 40+ other news outlets)
2017  ETH-News "Breath instead of a blood test"
          (Yale Scientific Magazine, 30+ other news outlets)