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Sensors 2006, 6, 262-269 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2006 by MDPI /sensors Study of Swift Heavy Ion Modified Conducting Polymer Composites for Application as Gas Sensor Alok Srivastava 1, 2, *, Virendra Singh 1, Chetna Dhand 1, Manindar Kaur 1, Tejvir Singh1, Karin Witte 2 and Ulrich W. Scherer 2 1 Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014, India 2 Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Jülich Campus, Ginsterweg 1, 52428 Jülich, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: alok@pu.ac.in Received: 29 August 2005 / Accepted: 04 January 2004 / Published: 7 April 2006 Abstract: A polyaniline-based conducting composite was prepared by oxidative polymerisation of aniline in a polyvinylchloride (PVC) matrix. The coherent free standing thin films of the composite were prepared by a solution casting method. The polyvinyl chloride-polyaniline composites exposed to 120 MeV ions of silicon with total ion fluence ranging from 1011 to 1013 ions/cm2, were observed to be more sensitive towards ammonia gas than the unirradiated composite. The response time of the irradiated composites was observed to be comparably shorter. We report for the first time the application of swift heavy ion modified insulating polymer conducting polymer (IPCP) composites for sensing of ammonia gas. Keywords: Conducing polymer, ammonia gas sensors, swift heavy ions, polymer composites.  Sensors 2006, 6 263 Introduction Conducting polymers have attracted considerable interest due to their various applications in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) [1], lithography [2], electrode material [3], electromagnetic shielding [4] and sensing [5-6]. Sensors made from conducting polymers as varied as polypyrrole, polyhexylthiophene, polymethylthiophene, polyethylene and polyaniline have been investigated [7-12] to study their