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Stephen R. Lowry Ph.D.

Stephen R. Lowry, Ph.D., Application Scientist, Molecular Spectroscopy | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Madison, WI

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Analyzing Automotive Paints With Extended-Range ATR

Infrared spectroscopy is one of the few analytical techniques considered by the forensic science community to have the highest discriminating power required to provide confirmatory evidence about the chemical composition of a material.

Stephen R. Lowry Ph.D.

August 19, 2013

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Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is used extensively to characterize the chemical composition of trace evidence such as paints, fibers and adhesives as well as seized drugs and related chemicals. Thermo Fisher has recently introduced the Thermo Scientific™ iS™50 ATR module, a novel, extended-range attenuated total reflectance (ATR) module that is integrated into the Nicolet™ iS50 FT-IR spectrometer.