U.S. government scientists are building the nation’s first library of ink profiles to help identify fraudulent documents.
The researchers at the Midwest Forensics Resource Center (MFRC) — part of the Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory at Iowa State University — will use mass spectrometry and a sampling technique called Direct Analysis in Real Time, or DART, to determine the chemical makeup of an ink more quickly and in greater detail than ever before.
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