Innovative Materials Applied to the Development of Latent Fingerprints: a technological prospection in the world context of forensic sciences

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Jeane Caroline da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silva, Adriano Ananias da, Ribeiro, Adriana Santos, Tonholo, Josealdo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Prospecção (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/nit/article/view/50490
• topic: Impressões Digitais; Nanopartículas; Polímeros Conjugados.; Fingerprints; Nanoparticles; Conjugated Polymers.

In recent years there has been an increase in innovations in the field of forensic science. About biometric analysis, especially in the development of latent fingerprints, the nanoparticles and conjugated polymers, stand out as innovative materials, which are trying to contour the challenges of the main area, in respect of the configuration of conventional protocols, the quality of development, sensitivity, and selectivity of the applied methods and toxicity of the reagents. The data basis Patent Inspiration, Espacenet, Derwent Innovations, WIPO and Scopus were utilized in the search for patents and scientific articles related to Forensic Science and to the use of nanoparticles and conjugated polymers applied to the latent fingerprint development, in order to present a current overview of the developed research in this area. It was observed a growth in the research and development of new materials and methodologies for application in forensic area over the last few decades. Moreover, the main developing countries of this knowledge, as well as the main technological fields involved in this research were identified. The analysis of such data may indicate which materials have greater potential, such as carbon dots, quantum dots, rare earth nanomaterials, polypyrrole and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), where research is concentrated and what degree of maturity they are, helping researchers in the development of new methodologies.