title: Deterring gun crime materially using forensic coatings.
abstract: Surface coatings that can help deter and solve gun crime are described. These nanoengineered coatings have been applied and evaluated on brass cartridge cases, where they increase associative forensic evidence through nanotag donation to the handler and the retention of handler's DNA. In future we expect this approach to be used for other surfaces and conditions.
authors.affiliation: Nanomaterials Laboratory, Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. paul.sermon@brunel.ac.uk
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Sermon
authors.forename: Myles P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Worsley
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Courtney
authors.forename: Verity
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shinar-Bush
authors.forename: Olim
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ruzimuradov
authors.forename: Andy J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hopwood
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Bekim
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gashi
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Yanmeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu