Mother Nature is inspiration behind new printing technique
Mother Nature is the inspiration for a new printing technique that copies the structural colors you can discover in peacock feathers as well as butterfly wings. Scientists from both the US and South Korea have teamed up to create a printing technique that is high-definition and high-resolution, which produces a myriad of colors in just seconds. While this may not be what stationary printers in Lethbridge can yet do, scientists say that if applied commercially, this new printing technique may help prevent forgeries.
One of the biggest benefits of this new printing technique is that its structural colors are impossible to be copied by chemical pigments; in addition, these structural colors are also shielded against photobleaching.
What all this boils down to is that this new printing technique makes a highly attractive, potential tool in the fight against forgeries. However, producing structural colors in this artificial way is inefficient and takes a really long time, which is a prohibiting factor in its use.
The collaboration between US and South Korean scientists has also discovered how to make a single ink of any wanted color in just a few, short seconds. Christened "M-Ink," this seemingly revolutionary type of ink also can alter its color easily when a magnetic field is used. If you want to lock this ink into the surface of a material, all you have to do is shine a patterned, ultraviolet light on said material.
While this new printing technique may yet be a ways off from making an appearance at any stationary printers in Lethbridge, it still holds a host of promising applications for future use.
One of the biggest benefits of this new printing technique is that its structural colors are impossible to be copied by chemical pigments; in addition, these structural colors are also shielded against photobleaching.
What all this boils down to is that this new printing technique makes a highly attractive, potential tool in the fight against forgeries. However, producing structural colors in this artificial way is inefficient and takes a really long time, which is a prohibiting factor in its use.
The collaboration between US and South Korean scientists has also discovered how to make a single ink of any wanted color in just a few, short seconds. Christened "M-Ink," this seemingly revolutionary type of ink also can alter its color easily when a magnetic field is used. If you want to lock this ink into the surface of a material, all you have to do is shine a patterned, ultraviolet light on said material.
While this new printing technique may yet be a ways off from making an appearance at any stationary printers in Lethbridge, it still holds a host of promising applications for future use.