Table 1.

A brief history of bioelectronic noses.

Year	Inventor	Object of the Invention	Ref.
1998	Gopel et al.	Concept of bioelectronic nose	[22]
1999	Wu	A piezoelectric electrode used in the immobilization of a crude bullfrog cilia as a signal transducer	[27]
2006	Lee	SPR system to characterize molecular interaction between olfactory receptor and its cognate odour molecule	[29]
2005	Ko & Park	Whole cell-based QCM sensor system for selective recognition of odorant molecules	[32]
2006	Sung et al.	A crude membrane expressing an olfactory protein was used for measuring odorants using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)	[28]
2011	Goldsmith et al.	Biomimetic chemical sensors using nanoelectronic read out of olfactory receptor proteins	[19]
2012	Park et al.	Ultrasensitive flexible graphene based field-effect transistor (FET)-type bioelectronic nose	[14]
2012	Jin et al.	Nanovesicle-based bioelectronic nose platform mimicking human olfactory signal transduction	[33]
2013	Lim et al.	Peptide receptor-based bioelectronic nose for the real-time measurement	[34]
2014	Oh et al.	Odorant detection using liposome containing olfactory receptor in the SPR system	[21]
2014	Lu et al.	Olfactory biosensor using odorant-binding proteins from honeybee	[35]
2015	Di et al.	A surface acoustic wave bioelectronic nose for detection of volatile odorant molecules	[20]