RESEARCHERS CLAIM BREAKING COST BARRIER IN NANOTECHNOLOGY ANTI-COUTERFEITING DEVICES
March 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
A NANOTECHNOLOGY company claims to have produced anti-counterfeiting security devices so cheap, it has broken through the cost issue bedevilling the use of nanopatterns to prevent counterfeiters copying banknotes, theatre tickets and other valuable documents. "I really have not seen a commercialisation of nanotechnology that can make you money in the near term," said Doug Blakeway, of Simon Fraser University's Venture Connection in Vancouver, has been one typical comment.
But now the university's researchers and ...
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