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Recent advances in portable Raman instruments have dramatically increased their application to emergency response and forensics, as well as homeland defense. This paper reviews the relevant attributes and disadvantages of portable Raman spectroscopy, both essentially and instrumentally, to the task of explosives detection in the field.

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This work was performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.

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    David S. Moore & R. Jason Scharff

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Dedicated to Prof. Günter Gauglitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

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Moore, D.S., Scharff, R.J. Portable Raman explosives detection. Anal Bioanal Chem 393, 1571–1578 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-008-2499-5

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