Functionalization of cellulose fibers and paper with lanthanide-based luminescent core/shell nanoparticles providing 3-level protection for advanced anti-counterfeiting purposes

Autor: Agata Szczeszak, Małgorzata Skwierczyńska, Dominika Przybylska, Marcin Runowski, Emilia Śmiechowicz, Aleksandra Erdman, Olena Ivashchenko, Tomasz Grzyb, Piotr Kulpiński, Konrad Olejnik
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Materials & Design, Vol 218, Iss , Pp 110684- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0264-1275
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110684
Popis: The increasingly wide-spreading falsification of documents, clothing, and packaging has a negative impact on every aspect of the global markets. Therefore, the development of high-quality strategies for materials protection has become a big challenge. Thus, this work presents novel anti-counterfeiting lyocell fibres, exhibiting bright green or yellowish up-conversion emission upon dual-range excitation, using either 975-nm or 1532-nm NIR laser radiation. The up-converting cellulose fibers were prepared by introducing lanthanide-doped core@shell nanoparticles β-NaYF4: Yb3+, Er3+@β-NaYF4 into the cellulose matrix. The spinning process of fibres was based on N-methylmorpholine N-oxide method, environmentally friendly because of the reusable reagents used. The prepared fibres were incorporated into the paper mass, forming a luminescent paper as a proof of concept for the multi-modal protection of documents. The luminescent fibres have considerable application potential as anti-counterfeiting composite materials with excellent performance, which are very difficult to imitate or copy, providing a very high level of security.
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