{"id":143487,"date":"2021-10-27T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=143487"},"modified":"2021-10-27T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:46:16","slug":"security-ink-based-on-nano-materials-that-spontaneously-emits-light-can-combat-counterfeiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/security-ink-based-on-nano-materials-that-spontaneously-emits-light-can-combat-counterfeiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Security ink based on nano-materials that spontaneously emits light can combat counterfeiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Scientists have indigenously developed a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highly stable and non-toxic luminescent security ink from nano-materials that will help combat counterfeiting of currency notes, medicine, certificates, documents and branded goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Counterfeiting?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Counterfeiting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means to imitate something authentic with the intent to steal, destroy or replace the original for use in illegal transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Counterfeiting of branded goods, banknotes, medicines, certificates, currency and other important documents is very common all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How is <\/b><b>counterfeiting tackled currently?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Luminescent ink is used as covert tags to combat counterfeiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the security inks available today are based on luminescent materials that absorb a high-energy photon and emit low-energy photons, technically called downshifting. This covert tag is invisible under daylight, and it becomes visible under UV light.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, these single emission-based tags are prone to replication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To overcome this, luminescent ink with excitation-dependent luminescent properties (downshifting and upconversion) is advised.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is because increasing the number of parameters required to decode the tag decreases the possibility of decoding and replication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, most of the materials reported recently for this purpose are based on fluorides, which are less stable and highly toxic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have the Indian Scientists developed?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To address the above challenge, Indian Scientists have developed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">luminescent security ink from nano-materials. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This ink is highly stable, less toxic and has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">excitation-dependent luminescent properties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, this ink <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has huge potential to combat counterfeiting and the common man can find out easily whether the document or product is original or fake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Security ink based on nano-materials that spontaneously emits light can combat counterfeiting<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>25th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Scientists have indigenously developed a highly stable and non-toxic luminescent security ink from nano-materials that will help combat counterfeiting of currency notes, medicine, certificates, documents and branded goods. What is Counterfeiting? Counterfeiting means to imitate something authentic with the intent to steal, destroy or replace the original for use in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/security-ink-based-on-nano-materials-that-spontaneously-emits-light-can-combat-counterfeiting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Security ink based on nano-materials that spontaneously emits light can combat counterfeiting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700514218},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}