| Title: | Electronic noses and tongues: applications for the food and pharmaceutical industries |
| Author(s): | Baldwin EA; Bai J; Plotto A; Dea S; |
| Address: | "USDA-ARS Citrus & Subtropical Products Laboratory, 600 Ave S N.W., Winter Haven, FL 33881, USA. liz.baldwin@ars.usda.gov" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1424-8220 (Electronic) 1424-8220 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The electronic nose (e-nose) is designed to crudely mimic the mammalian nose in that most contain sensors that non-selectively interact with odor molecules to produce some sort of signal that is then sent to a computer that uses multivariate statistics to determine patterns in the data. This pattern recognition is used to determine that one sample is similar or different from another based on headspace volatiles. There are different types of e-nose sensors including organic polymers, metal oxides, quartz crystal microbalance and even gas-chromatography (GC) or combined with mass spectroscopy (MS) can be used in a non-selective manner using chemical mass or patterns from a short GC column as an e-nose or 'Z' nose. The electronic tongue reacts similarly to non-volatile compounds in a liquid. This review will concentrate on applications of e-nose and e-tongue technology for edible products and pharmaceutical uses" |
| Keywords: | "Biosensing Techniques/*instrumentation/methods Drug Industry/instrumentation/methods Electronics/*instrumentation/methods Food Industry/instrumentation/methods Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry *Neural Networks, Computer Odorants/analysis biosensors ch;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineBaldwin, Elizabeth A Bai, Jinhe Plotto, Anne Dea, Sharon eng Review Switzerland 2011/12/14 Sensors (Basel). 2011; 11(5):4744-66. doi: 10.3390/s110504744. Epub 2011 May 2" |
