Laura Kronlachner, Zuzana Gajarska, Johannes Frank, Erwin Rosenberg, Andreas Limbeck
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Abstract
Polymeric composite materials with layered structures have increasingly gained importance as, for specific applications, the required properties cannot be achieved with one single material; thus, for example, multi-layer polymers or special surface coatings are employed.
None of the conventionally available techniques enables a comprehensive characterization of composite materials, including depth-resolved information about their organic and elemental constituents.
In this work, a previously introduced approach enabling the direct characterization of the organic and inorganic constituents of solid polymer samples was further developed and optimized for depth profiling analysis of stacked layer polymers. For this purpose, the ablation chamber’s washout behavior and transfer line’s transport efficiency were improved. Chemometric methods were applied for the data analysis to gain greater insight and enable more precise differentiation, comparison and classification.
The work investigates the feasibility of the developed approach by analyzing a multi-layer stacked polymer sample created from nail polishes and using cluster analysis on the data collected with the bimodal detection. The layers of the sample could be differentiated by their organic and elemental constituents’ fingerprints, achieving a depth resolution of 7 µm.
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Forensic Chemistry publishes high quality manuscripts focusing on the theory, research and application of any chemical science to forensic analysis. The scope of the journal includes fundamental advancements that result in a better understanding of the evidentiary significance derived from the physical and chemical analysis of materials. The scope of Forensic Chemistry will also include the application and or development of any molecular and atomic spectrochemical technique, electrochemical techniques, sensors, surface characterization techniques, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, chemometrics and statistics, and separation sciences (e.g. chromatography) that provide insight into the forensic analysis of materials. Evidential topics of interest to the journal include, but are not limited to, fingerprint analysis, drug analysis, ignitable liquid residue analysis, explosives detection and analysis, the characterization and comparison of trace evidence (glass, fibers, paints and polymers, tapes, soils and other materials), ink and paper analysis, gunshot residue analysis, synthetic pathways for drugs, toxicology and the analysis and chemistry associated with the components of fingermarks. The journal is particularly interested in receiving manuscripts that report advances in the forensic interpretation of chemical evidence. Technology Readiness Level: When submitting an article to Forensic Chemistry, all authors will be asked to self-assign a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) to their article. The purpose of the TRL system is to help readers understand the level of maturity of an idea or method, to help track the evolution of readiness of a given technique or method, and to help filter published articles by the expected ease of implementation in an operation setting within a crime lab.