Multisensor device based on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) for monitoring nutrient solutions in fertigation

Advances in Biomimetic and Nanostructured Biohybrid Materials

“…[58] The potential uses of biopolymer-clay nanocomposites are extremely wide and include biocide activity, nanocontainer and drug sustained release systems, food additives, fertilizers, plastic fillers, delivery of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and anti-microbials, synthetic catalytic materials, and molecular sieves. [15,16,17a,55] A key point regarding the optimization of bionanocomposite properties is the study of clay-biopolymer interaction mechanisms as envisaged by Ruiz-Hitzky et al [55a] A valuable recent example of these systematic studies also concerns the adsorption of protamine and papain proteins on a saponite clay mineral reported by Szabo et al [59] On the other hand, ultrathin films, such as monolayers and bilayers, are interesting objects for scientific research and can be used in preliminary research for potential applications.…”

Biomimetic-based odor and taste sensing systems to food quality and safety characterization: An overview on basic principles and recent achievements

“…Sensitivity improvement has been of interest to the researchers working on taste quantification and so many technological techniques are being employed for this purpose (Lorenz et al, 2008;Ciosek et al, 2009;Liyama et al, 2009;Woertz et al, 2010). At present, usage of nanotechnology in biosensor preparation is interestingly under consideration to enhance selectivity and sensitivity and biosensor performance accordingly (Darder et al, 2009;Lima et al, 2009;Siqueira et al, 2010).…”

Electronic Tongues Employing Electrochemical Sensors

“…The system employed eight PVC membrane ISEs and complex data processing by ANNs, counterbalancing any temperature effect on the concentrations found. A recent contribution used a four sensor array and an expert system based on case-based reasoning to detect deviations in the composition of equivalent fertigation solutions [107]. A curious work by Ciosek and co-workers optimized an electronic tongue for the recognition and classification of plant samples [108].…”