SECURITY FIRM ANNOUNCES NANO-SCALE BANKNOTE AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY

Nanotech Security Corp. has reached a major milestone in authentication and anti-counterfeiting security technology developed by replicating nano-scale structures similar to those found on the wings of the iridescent Morpho Butterfly. Nanotech Security Corp. is pleased to announce its team of researchers have successfully created the world's first master shim http://www.nanosecurity.ca/press_imagesvideos.php , or master die, that manufacturers can use to reproduce nano-holes in a variety of materials - including banknotes - in large volumes quickly and cost-effectively without changing the manufacturing process.

Because it requires highly-specialized equipment in the tens of millions of dollars, patented algorithms and extensive scientific expertise to replicate the unique nano-structures, Nanotech

Security Corp.'s technology is more secure than current authentication features such as watermarks and holograms – both of which can be forged using readily available printing equipment.

In Canada alone, businesses lose an estimated half a billion dollars a year because of counterfeiting. Counterfeiting has been described by the FBI as the crime of the 21st century.

According to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization, counterfeiting is a $600 billion a year problem worldwide annually, with U.S. businesses alone suffering up to $250 billion in unnecessary costs each year. Nanotech Security Corp. has had ongoing discussions with numerous third parties, and has now been asked to produce master shims for commercial trials by a number of those parties.

This shim is fully customizable using a technique called QuickShift®. Nanotech Security Corp. can control and specify what colors are created when the angle of view is changed along with the ability to replicate images.

Nanotech Security Corp's master shim is customizable in size from microns to centimeters. On the shim, stand tens to hundreds of millions of nano-scale pillars and from this master, multiple shims can be manufactured. By imprinting these shims into a material, the pillars emboss a grid of nano-scale holes, creating a signature iridescent effect, similar to that of the Morpho Butterfly.

The company has replicated the features of the master stamp on banknote-grade polypropylene, polyethylene (PET) and acetates.

To read the complete article, see: Nanotech Security Corp. to provide banknote manufacturers with world's first authentication technology on a nano-scale (www.nanosecurity.ca/pressreleases/13390093_NTS_-_PR_Sept_28_2011_f.pdf)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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