New publication in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Samanlia, Keith and Sara recently published a paper entitled “Detection of structural degradation of porcine bone in different marine environments with Raman spectroscopy combined with chemometrics” in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2022) 53, 82 – 94, https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6258

The work was in collaboration with Jennifer Hughes (from the Sir John Walsh Research Inst.) and Lynne Bell from the Centre for Forensic Research, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

The work shows how the duration of bone burial in intertidal regions can be measured with Raman spectroscopy looking at changes in the phosphate band.  The time prediction was good to about 1 month and required no additional treatments to the samples.  This has some utility in forensic analysis