Four-Dimensional Screening Anti-Counterfeiting Pattern by Inkjet Printed Photonic Crystals

Jue Hou; Huacheng Zhang; Bin Su; Mingzhu Li; Qiang Yang; Lei Jiang; Yanlin Song

doi:10.1002/asia.201600433

Four-Dimensional Screening Anti-Counterfeiting Pattern by Inkjet Printed Photonic Crystals

Chem Asian J. 2016 Oct 6;11(19):2680-2685. doi: 10.1002/asia.201600433. Epub 2016 Jun 7.

Authors

Jue Hou^{1

2}, Huacheng Zhang³, Bin Su³, Mingzhu Li⁴, Qiang Yang^{1

2}, Lei Jiang³, Yanlin Song⁵

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. mingzhu@iccas.ac.cn.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. ylsong@iccas.ac.cn.

PMID: 27214175
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600433

Abstract

A four-dimensional screening anti-counterfeiting QR code composed of differently shaped photonic crystal (PC) dots has been fabricated that could display four images depending on different lighting conditions. By controlling the rheology of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), three kinds of PC dots could be sequentially integrated into one pattern using the layer-by-layer printing strategy. The information can be encoded and stored in shapes and read out by the difference in optical properties.

Keywords: anti-counterfeiting; inkjet printing; multiplexed optical screening; nanoparticles; photonic crystals; quick response code.