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Journal
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Multi‐level anticounterfeiting tags have been developed using a combination of different materials. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) mixed with titanium dioxide (TiO2) is used to produce flexible substrates. Fluorescent Opuntia Ficus‐indica (OFI) extract dissolved with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is then sprayed over the substrate to create a random, yet unique deposition of droplets. Photographs of the tags are taken under UV illumination at different angles and analyzed through the scale‐invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm to extract their unique features. The SIFT analysis reveals hundreds to thousands of matched features when a given tag is compared with itself, whereas this number drops to tens for different tags. To enhance the security of the tags, ITO is sputtered onto one of them in the form of a pattern formed by a patch array exhibiting a specific fingerprint at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The evaluation …
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Publication date: 
1 Jan 2024
Authors: 

Sephora Kamwe Sighano, Tiziana Ritacco, Mauro Daniel Luigi Bruno, Oriella Gennari, Walter Fuscaldo, Dimitrios C Zografopoulos, Joseph Marae‐Djouda, Thomas Maurer, Romeo Beccherelli, Roberto Caputo, Antonio Ferraro

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Pages: 2406632
Origin: 
Advanced Functional Materials