African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Review

The fabrication of potentiometric membrane sensors and their applications

Farnoush Faridbod1, Mohammad Reza Ganjali1*, Rassoul Dinarvand2 and Parviz Norouzi1
  1Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. 2Medical Nanotechnology Research Centre, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, P.O. Box 14155-6451, Iran.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 12 November 2007
  •  Published: 28 December 2007

Abstract

Ionophore-incorporated PVC-membrane sensors are well-established analytical tools routinely used for the selective and direct measurement of a wide variety of different ions in complex biological and environmental samples. The key ingredient of such plasticized PVC-members is the involved ionophore, defining the selectivity of the electrodes complex formation with the cation of interest. In the past few years, the development of new ion-selective electrodes for various ions has been reported in the literature.

Key words: Ion-Selective Electrode, potentiometric membrane sensor, sensor.