Carpet Fibers Under Microscope

You can find out by looking at cloth fibers under a microscope.

Carpet fibers under microscope.

Using a microscope i took some pictures of well used carpet. Clothing fiber as used here refers to any textile fiber regardless of use. Carpet fibers were found on a murder victim along a roadside. Identification of fibers in microtome that fits under microscope in 90 seconds.

Keeping this kind of damage to a minimum starts with vacuuming. With funding from the national institute of justice the team developed the method which involves first cleaning residues off the fiber s surface using a beam of ionized c 60 fullerenes. During the manufacturing process they use the mw5 ld2 digital stereo microscope to examine the carpet fibers. It is specu lated that the victim was carried to the location using a car belonging to one of the suspects.

2 3 this leads to the hypothesis that aramid fiber has a pleated structure as in fig. To put it lightly i was amazed at what dirty carpet looked like up close. Below are the carpet images captured with the digital stereo zoom microscope the customer uses the included microscope software to capture and save the images making it easy to email the photos both inter office as well. Home london show synthetic and natural fibres.

Microscope forceps safety precautions. Above and below photos from vacuumed house dust sample collected in a u k. Vacuuming to prevent dirty carpet. Aramid fiber has a unique feature when observed under a cross polarized microscope light field in that it displays transverse bands.

Microscope world has a customer that manufacturers plush carpet. Wool fibers have very distinctive scales whereas man made fibers like nylon or rayon have a very smooth regular shape. Some of the carpet fibers from the floor of the car were transferred to the victim. Magnified to 720x the fibers we found were primarily cotton with some linen and a few synthetic fabric fibers.

Was the criminal wearing a wool sweater or a polyester track suit. However these transverse bands diminish when the filament is under tension. Gather samples of several different types of fibers like wool cotton rayon or silk. 9 21 the occurrence of a pleat sheet structure in aramid is not well understood.

Environments both inside and out contain large numbers of these fibers. Always carry a microscope using two hands. Jagged edges debris and broken fibers were prevalent through out the entire carpet. View fiber ends hold in microtome that fits under microscope in 90 seconds.

Above our two photographs show the dominant particles in dust samples from a home under study.