The invention discloses a method for manifesting latent fingerprints on the basis of an electrochemical
luminescence marker. According to the method, an activated
terpyridine ruthenium composite is used as the electrochemical
luminescence marker; the activated
terpyridine ruthenium composite can be subjected to
covalent binding with an amino group in
fingerprint amino acid through N-hydroxysuccinimide eater on a molecule, so that the
terpyridine ruthenium composite is marked and fixed on the fingerprints; then the terpyridine ruthenium composite and a coreactant (namely dinormal-butyl
ethanolamine) in a solution are subjected to electrochemical
luminescence reaction under certain potential, so that lines of the fingerprints comprising the integral morphology (namely a primary structure) and detailed features (namely a secondary structure) are manifested; according to the adopted electrochemical luminescence technology, an excitation
light source is not required to be added, back light is eliminated, a self-
quenching phenomenon of a radiant agent is greatly avoided, and the method is obviously superior to the traditional
fluorescence imaging method; and an image can be quickly acquired by an
imaging technology, and the speed of acquiring the image by the
imaging technology is far higher than the speed of acquiring the image by a
scanning electrochemical microscopy; and the used electrochemical luminescence coreactant is dinormal-butyl
ethanolamine, and has the characteristics of high
luminous intensity and environment-friendliness.