Enhanced anti-counterfeiting measures for additive manufacturing: coupling lanthanide nanomaterial chemical signatures with blockchain technology

Journal Article
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 5, iss. 37, pp. 9570-9578, 2017
Authors
Z. C. Kennedy, D. E. Stephenson, J. F. Christ, T. R. Pope, B. W. AREY, C. A. Barrett, M. G. Warner
Abstract

An anti-counterfeiting method is introduced by doping optically-active nanomaterials into printed parts, non-destructively measuring the part's chemical signatures arising from the taggants, and linking the resulting signature data to a blockchain.

English