Virtual Instrument for an Automated Potentiometric e-Tongue Employing the SIA Technique 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2006, 6, 19-29 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2006 by MDPI /sensors Virtual Instrument for an Automated Potentiometric e-Tongue Employing the SIA Technique Alejandro Durán 1, Montserrat Cortina 2, Lya Velasco 1, José Antonio Rodríguez 3, Salvador Alegret 2 and Manuel del Valle 2,* 1 Materials and Reagents Institute, Havana University, Havana, Cuba 2 Sensors Biosensors Group, Department of Chemistry, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 3 Physics Faculty, Havana University, Havana, Cuba Address: *Corresponding author: Edifici Cn, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. Phone: +34-93-581 1017, Fax: +34-93-581 2379, e-mail: manel.delvalle@uab.es Received: 13 May 2005 / Final version accepted: 22 November 2005 / Published: 15 December 2005 Abstract: In this work we report the design, construction, and applications of an electronic tongue (abbreviated e-tongue) based on an array of potentiometric sensors employing the Sequential Injection Analysis technique (SIA) operated as a Virtual Instrument implemented in LabVIEW6.1TM. The system can use transient and stationary responses as the measured input information for e-tongues. The new concepts applied, lead to different advantages to be obtained, such as complete automation, easy handling, saving time, reliability and modularity. Keywords: Automated electronic-tongue, Potentiometric sensor array, Sequential Injection Analysis, Virtual Instrument. 1. Introduction An accepted definition of electronic tongue [1] entails an analytical system comprising an array of nonspecific, poorly selective, chemical sensors with cross-sensitivity to different compounds in a solution, and an appropriate chemometric tool for the data processing. From an instrumental point of  Sensors 2006, 6 20 view, the e-tongue comprises the array of chemical sensors, conditioning and measurement electronic circuits and calibrating and processing tools [2]. Artificial