Fingerprint composition and aging: A literature review

S Cadd, M Islam, P Manson, S Bleay - Science & Justice, 2015 - Elsevier
Fingerprints have a key role in criminal investigations and are the most commonly used form
of evidence worldwide. Significant gaps remain however, in the understanding of fingerprint …

The forensic exploitation of fingermark chemistry: A review

SM Bleay, MJ Bailey, RS Croxton… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The substances deposited from the fingertip onto a surface during contact between them
represent a highly complex range of chemicals that can be exploited in a variety of ways in a …

Ultrabright fluorescent silica nanoparticles embedded with conjugated oligomers and their application in latent fingerprint detection

S Zhang, R Liu, Q Cui, Y Yang, Q Cao… - ACS applied materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent micro-and nanosized particles have a broad range of applications in biology,
medicine, and engineering. For these uses, the materials should have high emission …

Advances in fingermark age determination techniques

H Chen, M Shi, R Ma, M Zhang - Analyst, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fingermarks have long been recognized as one of the most reliable and valuable evidence
for personal identification. In practice, fingerprint analysis primarily concentrates on latent …

Proteomics as a new tool to study fingermark ageing in forensics

S Oonk, T Schuurmans, M Pabst, LCPM de Smet… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Fingermarks are trace evidence of great forensic importance, and their omnipresence makes
them pivotal in crime investigation. Police and law enforcement authorities have exploited …

Techniques that acquire donor profiling information from fingermarks—a review

A van Dam, FT van Beek, MCG Aalders… - Science & Justice, 2016 - Elsevier
Fingermarks are among the most important types of evidence that can be encountered at the
scene of a crime since the unique ridge pattern of a fingerprint can be used for …

Dissection of the deep-blue autofluorescence changes accompanying amyloid fibrillation

TN Tikhonova, NR Rovnyagina, AY Zherebker… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pathogenesis of numerous diseases is associated with the formation of amyloid fibrils.
Extrinsic fluorescent dyes, including Thioflavin T (ThT), are used to follow the fibrillation …

Strategies for potential age dating of fingerprints through the diffusion of sebum molecules on a nonporous surface analyzed using time-of-flight secondary ion mass …

S Muramoto, E Sisco - Analytical Chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Age dating of fingerprints could have a significant impact in forensic science, as it has the
potential to facilitate the judicial process by assessing the relevance of a fingerprint found at …

Fingermark age determinations: Legal considerations, review of the literature and practical propositions

A Girod, R Ramotowski, S Lambrechts… - Forensic science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The question of the age of fingermarks is often raised in investigations and trials when
suspects admit that they have left their fingermarks at a crime scene but allege that the …

Recent progress on fingerprint visualization and analysis by imaging ridge residue components

B Su - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2016 - Springer
Fingerprints have long been and are still considered to be the gold standard for personal
identification in forensic investigations. Developing or enhancing the visualization of …