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Sensors 2011, 11, 4688-4701; doi:10.3390/s110504688 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review Potentiometric Electronic Tongues for Foodstuff and Biosample Recognition—An Overview Patrycja Ciosek * and Wojciech Wróblewski Department of Microbioanalytics, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland; E-Mail: wuwu@.pl * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: pciosek@.pl; Tel.: +48-22-234-78-73; Fax: +48-22-234-56-31. Received: 1 February 2011; in revised form: 23 March 2011 / Accepted: 25 March 2011 / Published: 28 April 2011 Abstract: Potentiometric sensors are attractive tools for the fabrication of various electronic tongues that can be used in wide area of applications, ranging from foodstuff recognition to environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics. Their main advantages are the ability to modify their selectivity (including cross-sensitivity effects) and the possibility of miniaturization using appropriate construction methods for the transducer part (e.g., with the use of solid-state technology). In this overview various examples of the design, performance, and applications of potentiometric electronic tongues are presented. The results summarize recent research in the field conducted in the Department of Microbioanalytics, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). Keywords: ion selective electrodes; electronic tongue; principal components analys