Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 8909-8912Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am501668x
Keywords
printable taggants; multilayer microtaggants; phase change nanoparticles; authentication
Funding
- National Institute of Justice [2012-DN-BX-K021]
- Faculty Early Career Development Award from National Science Foundations [1055599]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1501356, 1055599] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1360603] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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There is an urgent need to develop taggants that can be used to identify objects, prevent fraud, and deter counterfeiting with high reliability, high capacity, and minimal effort. This paper describes a new multilayer covert taggant based on phase change nanoparticles (metals and eutectic alloys). A panel of selected nanoparticles with different melting temperatures have been added in matrix materials together with fluorescent dye and printed on substrates to form micro-/macrofeatures that contain thermal, fluorescence signature, and structural components. The multilayer taggants can greatly enhance security level for many commercial and forensic applications by their extremely large labeling capacity, coding readiness, and covertness.
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