Protection of Securities by the Application of Fullerenes

Conclusions

In our opinion, the protection of securities with the use of fullerenes can be protection at the highest level. As fullerenes are new inaccessible materials, nobody owns the method for their detection in paper.

Fullerenes introduction into the paper is the difficult process that requires special skill and knowledge. Moreover, the formation of solid substitution solutions in the C₆₀ crystal lattice (with C₇₀ and other fullerenes) gives possibility to combine fullerenes in the wide range of concentrations. This allows the creation of compositions which decoding is very labor-consuming and requires much time and special equipment. All mentioned above makes counterfeit of the paper encoded by fullerenes practically impossible. The pink color of paper, caused by introduced fullerenes, will allow application of fullerenes for protection of pink dollars.

Our scientific group has a number of patents of Ukraine on chemical and technological methods for fullerenes conversion into the water-soluble state and inversely and also on methods and techniques for introduction of fullerenes and fullerene-containing products into the paper composition.