Method for characterization of adhesion properties of trace explosives in fingerprints and fingerprint simulations

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 774-784

  Phares, Denis J ^a,b   Holt, Jason K ^a,b   Smedley, Gregory T ^a,b   Flagan, Richard C ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingerprints; Forensic science; Ion mobility spectrometry; Latent; Particle adhesion; Particle resuspension; Residues; Simulation; Trace explosive detection

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE; POLITEF; POLYSTYRENE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; FILTER; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROMETRY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033921847     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14770j     Document Type: Article

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