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Fluorescent cellulose-based hydrogel with carboxymethyl cellulose and carbon quantum dots for information storage and fluorescent anti-counterfeiting

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With the development of science and technology, various counterfeit and inferior products are emerging in endlessly, which makes people more and more important to the development of anti-counterfeiting technology. Materials capable of fluorescence imaging and biocompatibility are becoming popular in the field of anti-counterfeiting. Herein, we used carbon quantum dots, which had the characteristics of biocompatibility, non-toxicity, and high-efficiency luminescence, as the luminescence center, and introduced them into the carboxymethyl cellulose-based hydrogel to prepare a novel fluorescent cellulose-based hydrogel. The hydrogel displayed a bright blue color fluorescence under UV light, and Fe3+ could quench the fluorescence, thereby realizing information storage and anti-counterfeiting. Moreover, the stored information could be erased by ascorbic acid and reused many times. The results demonstrated that the fluorescent hydrogel had bright prospect for recyclable information storage and anti-counterfeiting.

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This work was sponsored by Special Fund for Beijing Forestry University and Beijing Common Construction Project [Grant No. 2016HXKFCLXY0015].

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    Haifeng Lv, Sijie Wang, Zhenxing Wang, Wanyao Meng, Xuewen Han & Junwen Pu

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HL: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing—Original draft preparation. SW: Data curation, Software. ZW: Visualization, Investigation. WM: Software, Validation. XH: Resources. JP: Writing-Reviewing and Editing. All authors commented on the final manuscript.

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Lv, H., Wang, S., Wang, Z. et al. Fluorescent cellulose-based hydrogel with carboxymethyl cellulose and carbon quantum dots for information storage and fluorescent anti-counterfeiting. Cellulose 29, 6193–6204 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04643-1

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