Electronic Tongues
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: automation in analytical chemistry; bioinspired analytical systems; FIA systems; SIA systems; chemical sensors; biosensors; genosensors; aptamer sensors; Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy; multisensor systems; electronic tongues
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Dear Colleagues,
Electronic tongues represent a new operational procedure in the sensor field that entails the use of chemical sensor arrays coupled with chemometric processing tools, as a mean to improve sensors performance. This approach is in tune with modern use of intelligent data processing as the way to improve automatic and or robotic operation. The coupling of information provided by different potentiometric, voltammetric, colorimetric or fluorescence sensors, and even biosensors, is an opportunity to develop sensing systems providing means for identification and/or classification of samples or situations; alternatively, when considering concentration values, the multidimensional information can be exploited to determine sought analytes in presence of interferences, or to resolve mixtures of related substances, with accomplishment equivalent to the use of chromatographic systems. Hybrid systems can also be devised, probably needing considerations on data fusion if very different types of sensors are used. The most singular applications being developed pertain to the food and beverage field, the environmental or agricultural field and the pharmaceutical field; it is also worth mentioning the attempts to mimic the animal or human taste perceptions, with systems known as artificial taste systems.
Dr. Manel Del Valle
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemical sensors
- potentiometry
- voltammetry
- biosensors
- electronic tongues
- artificial taste
- artificial sensory panel
- multivariate statistics
- neural networks
- pattern recognition
- data fusion
- bioinspired data processing
