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Forensic detection

Fingerprints fixed

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Disulfur dinitride reacts with the residues of fingerprints and of inkjet printing to potentially provide a valuable forensic technique

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  • 26 March 2018

    This article was initially published with an incorrect DOI. A new DOI has been assigned and registered at Crossref, and has been corrected in the article.

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  1. Kelly, P. F., King, R. S. P. & Mortimer, R. J. Fingerprint and inkjet-trace imaging using disulfur dinitride. Chem. Commun. 10.1039/b815742a (2008).

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Davey, S. Fingerprints fixed. Nature Chem (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.84

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