{"title":"Infrared and Raman spectroscopy in conjunction with chemometric methods in questioned document analysis: Forensic applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.trac.2024.117989","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The manipulation of documents remains a common tool for fraudulent activities, encompassing disputed signatures, threatening letters, counterfeit currency, false medical documents, cloned cheques, and forged security documents. With technological advancements, document creation has evolved from manual handwriting to computer-generated formats, employing various devices such as printers, photocopiers, scanners, and multifunctional devices globally. Forensic document examiners grapple with these challenges, and ongoing efforts are dedicated to addressing them. This study provides a comprehensive review of publications from the past decade, focusing on dating studies, ink and paper analysis, examination of writing and printing inks, ink analysis of questioned documents, and research on intersecting lines. The central emphasis lies on the utilization of Infrared and Raman spectroscopy within the domain of Vibrational spectroscopy. The review also highlights current trends, major challenges, and the effective application of chemometric approaches in this field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":439,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Analytical Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in Analytical Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"1","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993624004722","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The manipulation of documents remains a common tool for fraudulent activities, encompassing disputed signatures, threatening letters, counterfeit currency, false medical documents, cloned cheques, and forged security documents. With technological advancements, document creation has evolved from manual handwriting to computer-generated formats, employing various devices such as printers, photocopiers, scanners, and multifunctional devices globally. Forensic document examiners grapple with these challenges, and ongoing efforts are dedicated to addressing them. This study provides a comprehensive review of publications from the past decade, focusing on dating studies, ink and paper analysis, examination of writing and printing inks, ink analysis of questioned documents, and research on intersecting lines. The central emphasis lies on the utilization of Infrared and Raman spectroscopy within the domain of Vibrational spectroscopy. The review also highlights current trends, major challenges, and the effective application of chemometric approaches in this field.
期刊介绍:
TrAC publishes succinct and critical overviews of recent advancements in analytical chemistry, designed to assist analytical chemists and other users of analytical techniques. These reviews offer excellent, up-to-date, and timely coverage of various topics within analytical chemistry. Encompassing areas such as analytical instrumentation, biomedical analysis, biomolecular analysis, biosensors, chemical analysis, chemometrics, clinical chemistry, drug discovery, environmental analysis and monitoring, food analysis, forensic science, laboratory automation, materials science, metabolomics, pesticide-residue analysis, pharmaceutical analysis, proteomics, surface science, and water analysis and monitoring, these critical reviews provide comprehensive insights for practitioners in the field.