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Materials for Electronic Tongues: Smart Sensor Combining Different Materials and Chemometric Tools

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This chapter presents work with electronic tongues or smart sensors employing electroanalytical sensors and chemometric tools. This new trend in chemical sensing entails the use of arrays of chemical sensors or smart sensors responding with high-dimensionality data, in combination with chemometric data processing tools, as a means to improve the overall sensor performance. The review is organized according to the electroanalytical technique used for transduction, namely potentiometry, voltammetry/amperometry, and also considering the different materials used for sensors manufacture. Chapter ends with use of biosensors for development of electronic tongues.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation, MINECO (Madrid), through project CTQ2013-41577-P is gratefully acknowledged. M. del Valle thanks the support from program ICREA Academia. Many thanks are also debt to PhD students that completed their formation in our laboratories in the research line of (bio)electronic tongues: Jordi Gallardo, Albert Gutés, Montserrat Cortina, Manuel Gutiérrez Capitán, Juan Manuel Gutiérrez, Xavier Cetó, Andrea Cipri, Laura Moreno-Barón, and Andreu González-Calabuig.

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del Valle, M. (2017). Materials for Electronic Tongues: Smart Sensor Combining Different Materials and Chemometric Tools. In: Cesar Paixão, T., Reddy, S. (eds) Materials for Chemical Sensing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47835-7_9

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