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Anti-counterfeiting and identification solutions using soft matter

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Advanced countries need simple, effective and affordable novel technical solutions for anti-counterfeiting, authentication, identification and traceability of goods for security, health, justice, logistics, and industry. Nanotechnologies, in particular soft materials and biomaterials, offer new possibilities of overt and covert layers for combating fraud and related corruption. Lasing, interferential reflection, light modulation, and photonic effects can be easily combined to give an amazing amount of possible solutions.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università della Calabria, Rende, CS, Italy

    Maria Penelope De Santo, Ramla Gary, Giuseppe Pucci & Riccardo Barberi

  2. UOS Licryl, Istituto IMIP del CNR, Rende, CS, Italy

    Maria Penelope De Santo & Riccardo Barberi

  3. V. Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics of Georgian Technical University, 5 S.Euli str, 0186, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Gia Petriashvili

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De Santo, M.P., Petriashvili, G., Gary, R. et al. Anti-counterfeiting and identification solutions using soft matter. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 26 (Suppl 2), 255–259 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-015-0432-3

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