Infrared Spectroscopy and Application to Forensics
- Author(s)
- Giuseppina Balassone, Dominik Talla, Anton Beran, Fabio Bellatreccia
- 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).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
- External organisation(s)
- Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre
- Pages
- 93-140
- No. of pages
- 48
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08834-6_4
- Publication date
- 01-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 104026 Spectroscopy
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/c692b945-f69b-4216-8a20-630ec695ffd9