Journal
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 2121-2128Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14494
Keywords
forensic chemistry; electrochemistry; LSD; paper-based electrodes; screen-printed electrode; voltammetry
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Funding
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2016/23825-3]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, FCT, Portugal [UID/QUI/00686/2016, UID/QUI/00686/2019]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior [25/2014]
- Policia Cientifica do Estado de Sao Paulo
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [UID/QUI/00686/2019] Funding Source: FCT
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The need for agile and proper identification of drugs of abuse has encouraged the scientific community to improve and to develop new methodologies. The drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is still widely used due to its hallucinogenic effects. The use of voltammetric methods to analyze narcotics has increased in recent years, and the possibility of miniaturizing the electrochemical equipment allows these methods to be applied outside the laboratory; for example, in crime scenes. In addition to portability, the search for affordable and sustainable materials for use in electroanalytical research has grown in recent decades. In this context, employing paper substrate, graphite pencil, and silver paint to construct paper-based electrodes is a great alternative. Here, a paper-based device comprising three electrodes was drawn on 300 g/m(2)watercolor paper with 8B pencils, and its efficiency was compared to the efficiency of a commercially available screen-printed carbon electrode. Square wave voltammetry was used for LSD analysis in aqueous medium containing 0.05 mol/L LiClO4. The limits of detection and quantification were 0.38 and 1.27 mu mol/L, respectively. Both electrodes exhibited a similar voltammetric response, which was also confirmed during analysis of a seized LSD sample, with recovery of less than 10%. The seized samples were previously analyzed by GCMS technique, employing the full scan spectra against the software spectral library. The electrode selectivity was also tested against 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and methamphetamine. It was possible to differentiate these compounds from LSD, indicating that the developed paper-based device has potential application in forensic chemistry analyses.
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