Fluorescent Nanomaterials for the Development of Latent Fingerprints in Forensic Sciences

This review presents an overview on the application of latent fingerprint development techniques in forensic sciences. At present, traditional developing methods such as powder dusting, cyanoacrylate fuming, chemical method, and small particle reagent method, have all been gradually compromised give...

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Published in:Advanced functional materials 2017-04, Vol.27 (14), p.np-n/a
Main Authors: Wang, Meng, Li, Ming, Yu, Aoyang, Zhu, Ye, Yang, Mingying, Mao, Chuanbin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical properties
Fingerprints
Fluorescence
Forensic engineering
Forensic sciences
Forensic toxicology
Latent fingerprints
Materials science
Methods
Nanomaterials
Optical properties
Quantum dots
Rare earth elements
Selectivity
Sensitivity
Toxicity
Upconversion
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Summary:This review presents an overview on the application of latent fingerprint development techniques in forensic sciences. At present, traditional developing methods such as powder dusting, cyanoacrylate fuming, chemical method, and small particle reagent method, have all been gradually compromised given their emerging drawbacks such as low contrast, sensitivity, and selectivity, as well as high toxicity. Recently, much attention has been paid to the use of fluorescent nanomaterials including quantum dots (QDs) and rare earth upconversion fluorescent nanomaterials (UCNMs) due to their unique optical and chemical properties. Thus, this review lays emphasis on latent fingerprint development based on QDs and UCNMs. Compared to latent fingerprint development by traditional methods, the new methods using fluorescent nanomaterials can achieve high contrast, sensitivity, and selectivity while showing reduced toxicity. Overall, this review provides a systematic overview on such methods. This review presents an overview on the application of latent fingerprint development techniques in forensic sciences, especially on the good performance of fluorescent nanomaterials including quantum dots and rare earth upconversion nanomaterials in latent fingerprint development.
ISSN:1616-301X
1616-3028
DOI:10.1002/adfm.201606243