Infrared Spectroscopy and Application to Forensics

Giuseppina Balassone; Dominik Talla; Anton Beran; Fabio Bellatreccia

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08834-6_4

Infrared Spectroscopy and Application to Forensics

Giuseppina Balassone (Corresponding author)
, Dominik Talla
, Anton Beran
, Fabio Bellatreccia

Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography

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Abstract

Infrared spectroscopy is applied to many research topics, spanning across the fields of chemistry, geology, soil and materials science, biology, medicine and even cultural heritage. Since the 1950s, IR spectroscopy has been recognized as a fundamental analytical technique in mineralogy and earth sciences, along with X-ray diffraction, for phase identification and structural investigation of pure and/or mixed solid samples, as well as liquids and gases. Applications of FTIR spectroscopy to forensic sciences concern many geological and non-geological materials, such as rocks, stems and powders, soils, minerals, gemstones, asbestos, glasses and other amorphous materials, pigments and natural dyes, inorganic contaminants, or plastic. In this chapter, various case studies are reported for different natural and artificial substances, by considering some approaches such as fingerprinting, qualitative analysis of discrete features in the spectral signal, quantitative analysis, and spatial analysis (imaging).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mineralogical Analysis Applied to Forensics
Subtitle of host publication	A Guidance on Mineralogical Techniques and Their Application to the Forensic Field
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages	93-140
Number of pages	48
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-08834-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-08833-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08834-6_4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

Publication series

Series	Soil Forensics
ISSN	2214-4293

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

104026 Spectroscopy

Keywords

Infrared spectroscopy
Forensic science
Geological materials
Artificial substances
Fingerprinting
Qualitative analyses
Quantitative analyses
Imaging

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Infrared Spectroscopy and Application to Forensics. / Balassone, Giuseppina (Corresponding author); Talla, Dominik; Beran, Anton et al.
Mineralogical Analysis Applied to Forensics: A Guidance on Mineralogical Techniques and Their Application to the Forensic Field. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023. p. 93-140 (Soil Forensics).

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