Infrared Spectroscopy and Application to Forensics

Autor(en)
Giuseppina Balassone, Dominik Talla, Anton Beran, Fabio Bellatreccia
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre
Seiten
93-140
Anzahl der Seiten
48
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08834-6_4
Publikationsdatum
01-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
104026 Spektroskopie
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c692b945-f69b-4216-8a20-630ec695ffd9