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Abstract

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was applied to detect traces of amphetamine on fingerprints. In the present study, three different lift tapes and latent powder fingerprints were tested. The obtained results show that it is possible to identify traces of a drug as well as its distribution over the tested fingerprint after its transfer from the primary base onto an adhesive lifter (secondary base). Moreover, images obtained by the TOF-SIMS technique enable the observation of very small areas of the analysed fingerprint as well as the identification of micro-objects (residues of a contaminant) that were left on the fingerprint. The use of the black latent fingerprint powder did not interfere with the TOF-SIMS analysis, which makes it possible to effectively use this technique to study the traces of substances on the revealed fingerprints.

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Title
Visualisation of Amphetamine Contamination in Fingerprints Using TOF-SIMS Technique
Author
Szynkowska-Jóźwik, Małgorzata I 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Maćkiewicz, Elżbieta 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rogowski, Jacek 1 ; Gajek, Magdalena 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Pawlaczyk, Aleksandra 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; de Puit, Marcel 2 ; Parczewski, Andrzej 3 

 Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland; [email protected] (E.M.); [email protected] (J.R.); [email protected] (M.G.); [email protected] (A.P.) 
 Digital Technology and Biometrics, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Laan van Ypenburg 6, 2497 GB Den Haag, The Netherlands; [email protected]; Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands 
 Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Cracow, Poland; [email protected] 
First page
6243
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
19961944
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2596055740
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.