Multisensor Systems for Chemical Analysis : Materials and Sensors

This book is devoted to the recent advances in the development of artificial sensory systems widely known as electronic tongues (ET). It contains contributions by prominent authors from all over the world. Each chapter focuses on a particular research direction in modern ET. It introduces and discusses in detail various designs, sensor materials, transduction principles, and applications. The book shows a screenshot of diverse research efforts in the field of ET and will hopefully inspire new fruitful ideas and significant practical advances. Read more... Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Developing Sensing Materials for Multisensor Systems on the Basis of Extraction Data; Chapter 2 -- Photocurable Polymer Membrane Ion Sensors and Their Application for Multicomponent Analysis; Chapter 3 -- Metallic Sensors in Multisensor Analysis; Chapter 4 -- Sensor Arrays Based on Phthalocyanines: New Developments on Nanostructured and Biomimetic Electrochemical Sensors; Chapter 5 -- Lignin Applications in Chemical Sensing; Chapter 6 -- BioElectronic Tongues: When the Sensor Array Incorporates Biosensors. Chapter 7 -- Microsensor Systems for Environmental and Biomedical AnalysisChapter 8 -- The Use of Nanostructured Films in Sensing Applications; Chapter 9 -- Nanoplate Field-Effect Capacitors: A New Transducer Structure for Multiparameter (Bio- )Chemical Sensing; Back Cover. Abstract: This book is devoted to the recent advances in the development of artificial sensory systems widely known as electronic tongues (ET). It contains contributions by prominent authors from all over the world. Each chapter focuses on a particular research direction in modern ET. It introduces and discusses in detail various designs, sensor materials, transduction principles, and applications. The book shows a screenshot of diverse research efforts in the field of ET and will hopefully inspire new fruitful ideas and significant practical advances This book is devoted to the recent advances in the development of artificial sensory systems widely known as Electronic Tongues (ETs). The first publications in this area appeared about two decades ago, but until now this field is not fully mature. Much more efforts are necessary in the ET development and understanding of its working principle in order to reach the level of a reliable, albeit unusual, analytical instrument that was the ultimate aim of such research from the very beginning. The book can be suggested for a wide range of readers - from university students to the researchers. The Editors clearly understand that just as almost any book of this kind, the present one does not cover the whole range of advancements in the field, however it delivers some real steps forward of the ET technologies and applications described by prominent authors from all over the world. The book comprises nine chapters and each one is devoted to particular research direction in the modern ET. Various designs, sensor materials, transduction principles and applications are introduced and discussed in details. The book shows a screenshot of diverse research efforts in the Electronic Tongue field and will, hopefully, inspire new fruitful ideas and significant practical advances. Publisher's note Front Cover 1 Contents 7 Preface 15 Chapter 1 - Developing Sensing Materials for Multisensor Systems on the Basis of Extraction Data 19 Chapter 2 - Photocurable Polymer Membrane Ion Sensors and Their Application for Multicomponent Analysis 59 Chapter 3 - Metallic Sensors in Multisensor Analysis 87 Chapter 4 - Sensor Arrays Based on Phthalocyanines: New Developments on Nanostructured and Biomimetic Electrochemical Sensors 157 Chapter 5 - Lignin Applications in Chemical Sensing 199 Chapter 6 - BioElectronic Tongues: When the Sensor Array Incorporates Biosensors 229 Chapter 7 - Microsensor Systems for Environmental and Biomedical Analysis 265 Chapter 8 - The Use of Nanostructured Films in Sensing Applications 321 Chapter 9 - Nanoplate Field-Effect Capacitors: A New Transducer Structure for Multiparameter (Bio-)Chemical Sensing 351 Back Cover 393