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 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Iowa State University of Science And Technology
Award #
              2001-LT-BX-K004
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Ames, IA
Awardee County
              Story
Congressional District
              4
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2001
Total funding (to date)
              $360,000
Original Solicitation
              National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2001, $160,000)
Project Summary for 2001-LT-BX-K004

This project is supplement #1 to grant 2001-LT-BX-K004 and will use these funds to develop HPLC/spectrometric techniques to the point that they are ready for computer- searchable database (library) on ink analysis.  The result of this would be the straightforward identification (by maker and model) of ink from  HPLC/spectrometric analyses of unknown forensic ink samples.  The goals to be accomplished to reach this objective are 1) basic development of both HPLC/FT-IR and HPLC/MS approached to ink analysis, 2) choice of the superior approach by comparing the performance of the two on a representative set of ink samples, and 3)detailed development of procedures for the chosen approach for as many ink types as possible.  At the end of the project, the chosen approach should be sufficiently developed for database construction to begin.  The present project will examine the writing inks only, but much of the results should also be applicable to ink-jet inks and commercial printing inks, so the techniques could eventually be expanded to include these as well.  

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Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2003, $200,000)
This project is supplement #1 to grant 2001-LT-BX-K004 and will use these funds to develop HPLC/spectrometric techniques to the point that they are ready for computer- searchable database (library) on ink analysis.  The result of this would be the straightforward identification (by maker and model) of ink from  HPLC/spectrometric analyses of unknown forensic ink samples.  The goals to be accomplished to reach this objective are 1) basic development of both HPLC/FT-IR and HPLC/MS approached to ink analysis, 2) choice of the superior approach by comparing the performance of the two on a representative set of ink samples, and 3)detailed development of procedures for the chosen approach for as many ink types as possible.  At the end of the project, the chosen approach should be sufficiently developed for database construction to begin.  The present project will examine the writing inks only, but much of the results should also be applicable to ink-jet inks and commercial printing inks, so the techniques could eventually be expanded to include these as well.
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                      Differentiating Writing Inks Using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry

  
Date Created: August 7, 2001
    
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