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This book provides the reader with the history, fundamentals and theoretical aspects of electronic tongues and their applications. It covers strategies to discriminate analytes in complex liquid media with simple and robust tools, the design and the miniaturization of multisensory systems, the novel chemical materials employed and advances in computational tools employed for information visualization and interpretation. In recent years, tremendous advances have been made in the field, most of them focused on advanced computational methods for information visualization and in the miniaturization of systems to allow portability. Including recent developments and fascinating attributes of multisensory systems based on nanostructured materials, including 2D materials, graphene and other polymeric nanostructures. The topics covered in the book are of vital importance in a wide range of modern and emerging nanotechnologies employed or to be employed in a range of industries and monitoring situations, and consequently have a great impact on our society. The main objective of the book is to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the key principles of electronic tongues and the recent advances in the field and will be a key resource for sensor and materials scientists and researchers from universities, industry and national laboratories working in the field of multisensory systems. The reader will understand the approaches to discriminate and classify analytes through the novel design of electrodes, nanostructured chemical materials, and advanced computational methods for information visualization. Key Features Interdisciplinary. For researchers from chemistry, food science, engineering, instrumentation, electrochemistry, pharmacology, physics, and computer science. Includes theoretical aspects of detection techniques and applications Highlights novel nanomaterials and nanotechnology strategies for sensing enhancement Features advances in computational methods for multidimensional data visualization Concludes with a roadmap for sensorial data combining machine learning and data mining techniques

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Flavio M. Shimizu is a collaborative researcher at the Department of Applied Physics, “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo State, Brazil. He received his degree in Physics (2005), M.Sc. (2008), and Ph.D. (2012) in Materials Science and Technology (POSMat) from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP - Presidente Prudente, Brazil), and conducted his post-doctoral research at the São Carlos Institute of Physics, São Paulo University (IFSC/USP São Carlos, Brazil) from 2012 to 2017, and Cranfield University (2014, UK). His main research areas are microelectrodes and nanostructured films for applications in sensing and biosensing, electronic tongues, and information visualization techniques. Maria Luisa Braunger is a postdoctoral researcher at Faculty of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a collaborative researcher at the “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics (IFGW), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo State, Brazil. She received her degree in Physics (2008) and M.Sc. in Applied Physics (2011) from UNESP (Rio Claro-SP, Brazil) and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology (2015) from UNESP (Presidente Prudente-SP, Brazil) and Chemistry from Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA, Pau - France). She was a postdoctoral researcher at IFGW-UNICAMP from 2015 to 2020 and a visiting scholar (2017-2018) at School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania (Penn, PA-USA) working in the development of microfluidic devices and electronic tongues.   Antonio Riul Jr is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo State, Brazil. He researches Materials Science using nanostructured films from self-assembled materials for the nano-engineering of interfaces using tunable materials. He also works with impedance measurements in e-tongue devices, nowadays focusing on multifunctional coatings formed by self-healing and conductive nanocomposites.

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