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Glowing liquids could help protect products from counterfeiters using distinctive ultraviolet light signatures

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have developed room-temperature liquids containing chemical elements that produce distinctive patterns of light. They say the materials could provide a flexible new approach to optical tagging and anti-counterfeiting, while being compatible with existing pr...

Glowing liquids could help protect products from counterfeiters using distinctive ultraviolet light signatures
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Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have developed room-temperature liquids containing chemical elements that produce distinctive patterns of light. They say the materials could provide a flexible new approach to optical tagging and anti-counterfeiting, while being compatible with existing processing and printing technologies.

Originally published at Phys.org

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