Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Edible unclonable functions

  • Jung Woo Leem,
  • Min Seok Kim,
  • Seung Ho Choi,
  • Seong-Ryul Kim,
  • Seong-Wan Kim,
  • Young Min Song,
  • Robert J. Young,
  • Young L. Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14066-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Counterfeit medicines are a threat to patient health and public safety. Here, the authors use random patterns formed by fluorescent silk microparticles with various excitation and emission pairs as an edible physical unclonable function that can directly be attached onto the surface of medicines.