1st Edition

Biochemical Sensors Mimicking Gustatory and Olfactory Senses

Edited By Kiyoshi Toko Copyright 2013
    582 Pages 3 Color & 239 B/W Illustrations
    by Jenny Stanford Publishing

    This book is the first to comprehensively treat sensors for gustatory and olfactory senses. It will be highly useful to students and researchers in a wide variety of scientific fields and also to those in the fields of foods, perfumes, medicines and robotics as the sensor applications.

    Part One: Taste Sensor
    Basic Principles of Taste Sensor
    Advanced Taste Sensors Based on Artificial Lipid Membrane
    Hidekazu Ikezaki and Yoshikazu Kobayashi
    Taste Sensor for Sweetness
    Kentaro Toyota, Hong Cui, and Masaaki Habara

    Application to Foods
    Techniques for Objective Evaluation of Tea Tastes
    Nobuyuki Hayashi and Ronggang Chen
    Characterization of Tea Taste in Terms of Degree of Fermentation
    Masashi Omori and Ronggang Chen
    Application of Taste Sensor to Blending of Coffee
    Tomohiro Ishiwaki
    Meat
    Shinobu Fujimura and Keisuke Sasaki
    Application of Multichannel Taste Sensor (MCTS) for Winemaking
    Akira Totsuka
    Investigation into the Kokumi Taste of Soup Stock Materials
    Mikiharu Doi
    Rice Quality Evaluation Using a Taste Sensing System
    Uyen Thi Tran and Ken’ichi Ohtsubo

    Application to Medicines
    Quantitative Evaluation of Bitterness of Medicines
    Takahiro Uchida and Miyako Yoshida
    Development and Characterization of Medicines for Children
    Katharina Woertz, Miriam Pein, and Jörg Breitkreutz
    Herbal Medicines
    Yukihiro Goda, Naoko Anjiki, and Nobuo Kawahara
    Quality Engineering Approach to Bitterness-Masked Formulations and Establishment of Bitterness Masking Evaluation System Using Taste Sensing System
    Keijiro Terashita and Osamu Wakabayashi

    Part 2: Electronic Noses
    Outline of Electronic Nose
    Hidehito Nanto
    Odor Recorder and Olfactory Display
    Takamichi Nakamoto
    Odor Sensors Based on Molecular Wire and Nanofibers
    Kenshi Hayashi and Chuanjun Liu
    Odor Continuous Measurement Using Electronic Nose
    Junich Kita
    Sensors for Monitoring Harmful Gases and Organic Floating Particles
    Kazuhiro Hara

    Part 3: Application to Safety and Other Related Topics
    Electronic Dog Nose Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Method
    Takeshi Onodera
    Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Biosensor for Label-Free Detection of Biomolecular Interactions
    Tatsuro Endo
    Fire Detection Using Gas Sensors
    Takashi Oyabu
    Evaluation of Water Quality Using Taste Sensor
    Yoshinobu Naito
    Portable Taste Sensor
    Yusuke Tahara
    Molecular Recognition Chemical Sensor: Nano-Assembled Thin Film Based Gas Detection
    Seung-Woo Lee
    Droplet-Based Biochemical Reaction on Lab-on-a-chip
    Mitsuhiro Shikida
    Image Sensor for Biological Application
    Kazuaki Sawada and Toshiaki Hattori
    Electrochemical Microdevices
    Masatoshi Yokokawa, Daisuke Itoh, and Hiroaki Suzuki
    Evaluating the Psychobiologic Effects of Air Conditioner through Biomarkers
    Masaki Yamaguchi and Hajime Nishimiya
    Database of Taste and Marketing
    Michihiro Koyanagi and Kazuhiro Araya

    Biography

    Kiyoshi Toko