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In this work, we report on the fabrication of inorganic nanotube (INT)-tungsten disulfide, paper-based graphene\u2013PEDOT:PSS sheet and WS2 nanotube-modified conductive paper-based chemiresistors for VOC gas sensing. The WS2 nanotubes were fabricated by a two-step reaction, that is oxide reduction and sulfurization, carried out at 900 \u00b0C. The synthesized nanotubes were characterized by FE-SEM, EDS, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, and TEM. The synthesized nanotubes were 206\u2013267 nm in diameter. The FE-SEM results show the length of the nanotubes to be 4.5\u20138 \u00b5m. The graphene\u2013PEDOT:PSS hybrid conductive paper sheet was fabricated by a continuous coating process. Then, WS2 nanotubes were drop-cast onto conductive paper for fabrication of the chemiresistors. The feasibility and sensitivity of the WS2 nanotube-modified paper-based chemiresistor were tested in four VOC gases at different concentrations at room temperature (RT). Experimental results show the proposed sensor to be more sensitive to butanol gas when the concentration ranges from 50 to 1000 ppm. The limit of detection (LOD) of this chemiresistor for butanol gas was 44.92 ppm. The WS2 nanotube-modified paper-based chemiresistor exhibits good potential as a VOC sensor with the advantages of flexibility, easy fabrication, and low fabrication cost.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21186121","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,12]],"date-time":"2021-09-12T21:48:01Z","timestamp":1631483281000},"page":"6121","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Tungsten Disulfide Nanotube-Modified Conductive Paper-Based Chemiresistive Sensor for the Application in Volatile Organic Compounds\u2019 Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6582-0339","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Song-Jeng","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0439-3537","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Philip Nathaniel","family":"Immanuel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2570-5707","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yi-Kuang","family":"Yen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ching-Lung","family":"Yen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chi-En","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guan-Ting","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Che-Kuan","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhong-Xuan","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"196","DOI":"10.5185\/amlett.2017.7042","article-title":"Recent advances in electrochemical biosensor and gas sensors based on graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNT)\u2014A review","volume":"8","author":"Thangamani","year":"2017","journal-title":"Adv. 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