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Sweaty Hands? New Fingerprinting Method Takes Pore Prints

Sweaty Hands? New Fingerprinting Method Takes Pore Prints "The sensor technology developed in this study has the potential of serving as a new method for fingerprint analysis and for the clinical diagnosis of malfunctioning sweat pores," the researchers wrote in the study, detailed today (April 29) in the journal Nature Communications. The idea of using sweat pores for fingerprinting isn't new, but this is the first time that fast, reliable and cheap methods have been available. A team led by Jong-Man Kim, a chemical engineer at Hanyang University in South Korea, developed a new fingerprinting method that uses a simple color-changing polymer that can be deposited using an ink-jet printer.




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