Developed a versatile method to produce fully customizable smart pigmentst hat can be embedded in a wide range o formulations inks, including conventional writing and printing inks and industrial and security-grade coatings, enabling advanced anti-counterfeiting functionalities across diverse materials and products.
The growing sophistication of counterfeiters is driving a rise in the falsification of products, packaging, and official documents across sectors such as luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and public administration. Current security solutions—primarily based on optical effects or chemical markers—are increasingly vulnerable, as they can be imitated with advanced imaging and printing tools. This situation highlights the urgent need for authentication technologies that offer unique, unclonable identifiers beyond the reach of conventional reproduction techniques. Industries are therefore seeking robust, invisible, and rapidly verifiable security features that integrate seamlessly into existing production and printing processes.
This technology introduces a novel anticounterfeiting approach based on fully customizable smart micropigments engineered with specific shapes and functional characteristics. These can be dispersed and embedded into virtually any type of ink—from high-volume commercial printer inks to highly specialized security formulations—allowing easy adoption across a wide range of applications.
Each smartpigment can store unique, optically readable information, enabling secure authentication and item-level traceability that cannot be replicated using traditional methods. The entire solution is designed to be compatible with current industrial printing and marking workflows, enabling straightforward implementation without the need for new machinery or major process changes.
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The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation, its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress, and it is prepared to collaborate with Spanish and foreign entities in order to achieve this aim. According to its Statute (article 4), its mission is to foster, coordinate, develop and promote scientific and technological research, of a multidisciplinary nature, in order to contribute to advancing knowledge and economic, social and cultural development, as well as to train staff and advise public and private entities on this matter.
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