Discrimination of reactively-dyed cotton fibres with thin layer chromatography and UV microspectrophotometry

Abstract Reactively-dyed black, navy blue and medium red cotton samples showing metamerism under fluorescent tube illumination were examined. Optical microscopy (bright field, polarization and fluorescence microscopy) was used, followed by microspectrometry in the visible range (MSP Vis), to differe...

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Published in:Science & justice 2015-12, Vol.55 (6), p.422-430
Main Authors: De Wael, K, Van Dijck, K, Gason, F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chromatography
Cotton
Discriminating power
Dyes
Enzymatic digestion
Fibers
Forensic fibre examination
Forensic sciences
Microscopy
Microspectrophotometry
Optical microscopy
Pathology
Thin layer chromatography
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Summary:Abstract Reactively-dyed black, navy blue and medium red cotton samples showing metamerism under fluorescent tube illumination were examined. Optical microscopy (bright field, polarization and fluorescence microscopy) was used, followed by microspectrometry in the visible range (MSP Vis), to differentiate the samples in each block of colours. Additionally, the non-discriminated samples were subjected both to microspectrophotometry in the UV-range (MSP UV) and to enzymatic digestion followed by high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) on the digests. While it was found that both methods may potentially result in higher discrimination, preparation of reactively-dyed cotton for HPTLC was found to be a very tedious and time-consuming step and HPTLC only led to a better discrimination than MSP UV for the red cotton samples. The results suggest that in order to increase the discrimination for reactively-dyed cotton fibres, measurement of the UV absorption spectrum (MSP UV) is preferred over HPTLC.
ISSN:1355-0306
1876-4452
DOI:10.1016/j.scijus.2015.06.001