Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks

LE MacKenzie, R Pal - Nature reviews chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Authenticating products and documents with security inks is vital to global commerce,
security and health. Lanthanide complexes are widely used in luminescent security inks …

Interplay of defect levels and rare earth emission centers in multimode luminescent phosphors

X Zhou, L Ning, J Qiao, Y Zhao, P Xiong… - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Multimode luminescence generally involves tunable photon emissions in response to
various excitation or stimuli channels, which demonstrates high coding capacity and …

Multimodal-responsive circularly polarized luminescence security materials

Q Guo, M Zhang, Z Tong, S Zhao, Y Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nations, industries, and aspects of everyday life have undergone forgery and counterfeiting
ever since the emergence of commercialization. Securing documents and products with …

Structural color materials for optical anticounterfeiting

W Hong, Z Yuan, X Chen - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The counterfeiting of goods is growing worldwide, affecting practically any marketable item
ranging from consumer goods to human health. Anticounterfeiting is essential for …

Optical nanomaterials and enabling technologies for high‐security‐level anticounterfeiting

W Ren, G Lin, C Clarke, J Zhou, D Jin - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optical nanomaterials have been widely used in anticounterfeiting applications. There have
been significant developments powered by recent advances in material science, printing …

Inkjet-printed unclonable quantum dot fluorescent anti-counterfeiting labels with artificial intelligence authentication

Y Liu, F Han, F Li, Y Zhao, M Chen, Z Xu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
An ideal anti-counterfeiting technique has to be inexpensive, mass-producible,
nondestructive, unclonable and convenient for authentication. Although many anti …

An all-in-one nanoprinting approach for the synthesis of a nanofilm library for unclonable anti-counterfeiting applications

J Zhang, Y Liu, C Njel, S Ronneberger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In addition to causing trillion-dollar economic losses every year, counterfeiting threatens
human health, social equity and national security. Current materials for anti-counterfeiting …

Physical unclonable functions generated through chemical methods for anti-counterfeiting

R Arppe, TJ Sørensen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
The counterfeiting of goods has important economic implications and is also a threat to
health and security. Incorporating anti-counterfeiting tags with physical unclonable functions …

Multimodal dynamic and unclonable anti-counterfeiting using robust diamond microparticles on heterogeneous substrate

T Zhang, L Wang, J Wang, Z Wang, M Gupta… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growing prevalence of counterfeit products worldwide poses serious threats to
economic security and human health. Developing advanced anti-counterfeiting materials …