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Sensors 2009, 9, 6752-6763; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Preparation, Characterization and Sensitive Gas Sensing of Conductive Core-sheath TiO2-PEDOT Nanocables Ying Wang, Wenzhao Jia, Timothy Strout, Yu Ding and Yu Lei * Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; E-Mails: ywang@ (Y.W.); wenzhao.jia@ (W.J.); tim.strout@ (T.S.); yud08001@ (Y.D.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ylei@; Tel.: +1-860-486-4554; Fax: +1-860-486-2959. Received: 10 August 2009; in revised form: 20 August 2009/ Accepted: 21 August 2009 / Published: 27 August 2009 Abstract: Conductive core-sheath TiO -PEDOT nanocables were prepared using 2 electrospun TiO nanofibers as template, followed by vapor phase polymerization of EDOT. 2 Various techniques were employed to characterize the sample. The results reveal that the TiO2 core has an average diameter of ~78 nm while the PEDOT sheath has a uniform thickness of ~6 nm. The as-prepared TiO2-PEDOT nanocables display a fast and reversible response to gaseous NO and NH with a limit of detection as low as 7 ppb and 675 ppb 2 3 (S/N=3), respectively. This study provides a route for the synthesis of conductive nanostructures which show excellent per