Sustainable identity through switchable fluorescence: smart textiles with reversibly fluorescent and photocontrolable bio-inks

• Author(s): Barros, Ana ; Ramada, David ; Bouça, Verónica ; Oliveira, Juliana ; Freitas, Ana Isabel ; Domingues, Lucília ; Aguiar, Tatiana Quinta
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/78593
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Document Type: Conference poster
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

[Excerpt] Colour-changing materials with con - trollable properties obtained by low cost and biotechnological means are highly desirable for smart innovative products and applications such as anti-counterfeiting and security printing. Protein-based nanotechno - logy is an ever-growing research field due to the versatility and adap - tability of these biomolecule building blocks and the innovative functiona - lities and applications that can be achieved. [1, 2 ] This work explores the development of a new generation of eco-sustainable inks that take ad - vantage of the unique optical properties of selected reversibly switchab - le fluorescent molecules (RSFMs) for the fabrication of innovative textiles with photocontrolable and photoswitching fluorescent properties.