title: Application of artificial neural network to simultaneous potentiometric determination of silver(I), mercury(II) and copper(II) ions by an unmodified carbon paste electrode.
abstract: The response characteristics and selectivity coefficients of an unmodified carbon paste electrode (CPEs) towards Ag(+), Cu(2+) and Hg(2+) were evaluated. The electrode was used as an indicator electrode for the simultaneous determination of the three metal ions in their mixtures via potentiometric titration with a standard thiocyanate solution. A three-layered feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) trained by back-propagation learning algorithm was used to model the complex non-linear relationship between the concentration of silver, copper and mercury in their different mixtures and the potential of solution at different volumes of the added titrant. The network architecture and parameters were optimized to give low prediction errors. The optimized networks were able to precisely predict the concentrations of the three cations in synthetic mixtures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Mojtaba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shamsipur
authors.forename: Javad
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tashkhourian
authors.forename: Bahram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hemmateenejad
authors.forename: Hashem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sharghi