Current forensic methods for detecting and identifying cocaine and other drugs of abuse are
destructive, so evidence cannot be re‐analyzed. Raman spectroscopy, based on inelastic …

Plant hormones are the molecules that control the vigorous development of plants and help
to cope with the stress conditions efficiently due to vital and mechanized physiochemical …

Fentanyl and its analogues are potent synthetic opioids that are commonly abused and are
currently the number one cause of drug overdose death in the United States. The ability to …

Abstract Introduction and Aims Hundreds of new psychoactive substances (NPS) have burst
into the marketplace, making both the scientific community and people who use drugs …

We report on self-assembled nanocube-based plasmene nanosheets as new surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates toward direct identification of a trace amount …

Care must be exercised in the use of Raman spectroscopy for the identification of blood in
forensic applications. The Raman spectra of dried whole human blood excited at 785 nm are …

Inspired by Locard's exchange principle, which states “every contact leaves a trace”, a trace
residue sampling strategy has been developed for the analysis of discarded drug packaging …

Illegal drug smugglings and crimes have long been a global concern, and an apparatus
which can identify drugs on-the-spot is urgently demanded by law enforcement. A thermal …

Food adulteration, whether intentional or accidental, poses a significant public health risk.
Traditional detection methods often lack the precision required to detect subtle adulterants …

The potential of IR absorption and Raman spectroscopy for rapid identification of novel
psychoactive substances (NPS) has been tested using a set of 221 unsorted seized samples …