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| Author(s): |
Natalie Seguro Furlan
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2008-12-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Jorge Eduardo de Souza Sarkis;
José Oscar Willian Vega Bustillos;
Jorge Jardim Zacca
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| Advisor: | Jorge Eduardo de Souza Sarkis |
| Abstract | |
The analysis of inks and papers are of great interest to science and an understanding of the interaction between ink and paper is very important in mamy levels. The ink analysis from a document is extremely important to the study of several aspects such as adulteration and the age of the ink. These aspects could be studied by analysing the ink and paper both physically and chemically. The development of a technique to analyse ballpoint pen ink and to determine the age of a document by analysing the ink applied on a paper is very helpfull for every aspect of Forensic Science. In Brazil, Forensic Scientists face everyday many cases that require the ballpoint pen ink analysis, and there are no methods in which the determination of the ink age is possible. The most habitual cases which ink age analysis is requested are frauds in receipts, debt quittances, contract completions, signatures, adultered documents and checks. In this work, a new methodology of the ballpoint ink pen and its utilization to determine the age of a ballpoint ink sample will be discussed. Ballpoint pen ink samples from different countries such as the United States, Canada, Peru, Japan, Spain and Greece were periodically analysed. With the obtained results and according to the preparation time, curves of degradation of the solvent were built. The logarithmic equations from the curves were obtained too. The proposed equation has shown to be able to distinguish the relative age of the ballpoint ink with a variation of 20% from the theoretical value. Therefore, the main conclusion of this work is that the methodology proposed could be used to determine the relative age of a ballpoint ink pen. (AU) | |