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        <journal-title>NFSU Journal of Forensic Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">3049-2408</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Prof. (Dr.) Naveen Kumar Chaudhary</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.63633/tkj1gb26</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">NFSU_JFS110005</article-id>
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        <article-title>Role of Semiconductor Oxides in Forensic Sciences: A Review</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Nehla</surname>
            <given-names>Priyanka</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pandey</surname>
            <given-names>Vidit</given-names>
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      <aff id="aff1">Uppsala University, Sweden</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026">
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>13</lpage>
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        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons license.</license-p>
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        <p>Semiconductor oxides are playing an important role in the advancing modern forensic science, offering sensitive, selective, and rapid analyses. At nanoscale, they have a high surface area, unique chemical and physical properties, versatility, tunable optical, electrical, and magnetic characteristics. Applying different characterization techniques with semiconductor oxides on the nano-forensic evidences can provide the accurate and efficient results. Key semiconductor oxides such as ZnO, TiO2, CuO, or Iron oxides can be used in drugs/toxic powder detection, gun powder/explosive residue analyses, fingerprint detection, and other forensic applications as photocatalysis, artificial olfactory system, powder suspension, auxiliary agent, colorimetric, gas, and electrochemical sensing.</p>
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        <kwd>Forensic Science</kwd>
        <kwd>Forensic Applications</kwd>
        <kwd>Explosive</kwd>
        <kwd>Drugs</kwd>
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