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Unique wrinkles as identity tags

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  • Jie Yin

    (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.)

  • Mary C. Boyce

    (Mary C. Boyce is in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.)

Abstract

Spontaneously generated, random wrinkles of coatings on microscale particles have been found to be analogous to fingerprints — unique patterns with a wavy topography that can serve as unclonable tags for anti-counterfeiting purposes.

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  • Jie Yin & Mary C. Boyce, 2015. "Unique wrinkles as identity tags," Nature, Nature, vol. 520(7546), pages 164-165, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:520:y:2015:i:7546:d:10.1038_nature14380
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14380
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    1. Shilong Zhong & Zhaoxiang Zhu & Qizheng Huo & Yubo Long & Li Gong & Zetong Ma & Dingshan Yu & Yi Zhang & Weien Liang & Wei Liu & Cheng Wang & Zhongke Yuan & Yuzhao Yang & Shaolin Lu & Yujie Chen & Zhi, 2024. "Designed wrinkles for optical encryption and flexible integrated circuit carrier board," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Ningfei Sun & Ziyu Chen & Yanke Wang & Shu Wang & Yong Xie & Qian Liu, 2023. "Random fractal-enabled physical unclonable functions with dynamic AI authentication," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.

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