Glowing fingerprints: Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 11:31
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) -- Fingerprints are not just important in forensics and the identification of people; they can also be used for security clearance, access control, and the authentication of documents. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese researchers have now introduced a new fast method to make fingerprints visible at high resolution.