Nano-scale composition of commercial white powders for development of latent fingerprints on adhesives

Science and Justice

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Jones, B J ^a   Reynolds, A J ^a   Richardson, M ^b   Sears, V G ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Home Office Central Research Establishment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesive tape; Electron microscopy; Latent fingerprints; Powder suspensions; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; ALUMINUM; SILICATE; COLORING AGENT; POWDER; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; NANOANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWDER; SPECTROMETRY;

ADHESIVES; COLORING AGENTS; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWDERS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TITANIUM;

EID: 77955665723     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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