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S&M860 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2011.773 Published: December 15, 2011 Sweetness Sensor with Lipid/Polymer Membranes: Response to Various Sugars [PDF] Kentaro Toyota, Hong Cui, Kentaro Abe, Masaaki Habara, Kiyoshi Toko and Hidekazu Ikezaki (Received June 6, 2011; Accepted August 30, 2011) Keywords: sweetness sensor, lipid/polymer membrane, hydroxyl group
A sweetness sensor with lipid/polymer membranes has been developed for evaluating the sweetness of sugars and sugar alcohols. In this paper, experiments were performed to compare the electric responses of the sweetness sensor with the chemical structure of various sugars. The results demonstrated that the presence of two adjacent hydroxyl groups in a sugar molecule is important and that the optimum distance between the two adjacent hydroxyl groups is approximately 3 Å. The interaction between the sweetness sensor and sugars is discussed.
Corresponding author: Kentaro ToyotaCite this article Kentaro Toyota, Hong Cui, Kentaro Abe, Masaaki Habara, Kiyoshi Toko and Hidekazu Ikezaki, Sweetness Sensor with Lipid/Polymer Membranes: Response to Various Sugars, Sens. Mater., Vol. 23, No. 8, 2011, p. 475-482. |