Affiliations 

  • 1 Centre for Ionics University Malaya, Department of Physics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PLoS One, 2014;9(3):e92241.
PMID: 24658582 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092241

Abstract

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a key method for the characterizing the ionic and electronic conductivity of materials. One of the requirements of this technique is a model to forecast conductivity in preliminary experiments. The aim of this paper is to examine the prediction of conductivity by neuro-fuzzy inference with basic experimental factors such as temperature, frequency, thickness of the film and weight percentage of salt. In order to provide the optimal sets of fuzzy logic rule bases, the grid partition fuzzy inference method was applied. The validation of the model was tested by four random data sets. To evaluate the validity of the model, eleven statistical features were examined. Statistical analysis of the results clearly shows that modeling with an adaptive neuro-fuzzy is powerful enough for the prediction of conductivity.

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