title: Forensic Chemistry and Ambient Mass Spectrometry: A Perfect Couple Destined for a Happy Marriage?
abstract: Ambient mass spectrometry has been demonstrated, via various proof-of-concept studies, to offer a powerful, rather universal, simple, fast, nondestructive, and robust tool in forensic chemistry, producing reliable evidence at the molecular level. Its nearly nondestructive nature also preserves the sample for further inquiries. This feature article demonstrates the applicability of ambient mass spectrometry in forensic chemistry and explains the challenges that need to be overcome for this technique to make the ultimate step from the academic world into forensic institutes worldwide. We anticipate that the many beneficial and matching figures of merit will bring forensic chemistry and ambient mass spectrometry to a long-term relationship, which is likely to get strongly consolidated over the years.
authors.affiliation: ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Campinas-UNICAMP , Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil.|Technical-Scientific Police Superintendence-IC-SPTC-SP , São Paulo, São Paulo 05507-06, Brazil.
authors.forename: Deleon N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.affiliation: ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Campinas-UNICAMP , Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: Jandyson M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712 United States.
authors.forename: Livia S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Eberlin
authors.affiliation: ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Campinas-UNICAMP , Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcos N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Eberlin
authors.affiliation: ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Campinas-UNICAMP , Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sebastiaan F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Teunissen