{"id":223692,"date":"2025-10-20T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-create-a-novel-hydrogel-for-unclonable-security-tags"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:14:24","slug":"scientists-create-a-novel-hydrogel-for-unclonable-security-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-create-a-novel-hydrogel-for-unclonable-security-tags","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create a novel hydrogel for unclonable security tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-novel-hydrogel-for-unclonable-security-tags.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Encryption technologies are vital in today\u2019s digital landscape to protect sensitive information from hackers and prevent fraud. While cutting-edge encryption has been developed for data, sophisticated protection for physical objects such as high-value products, access cards and documents has lagged behind until now.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have now developed a new hydrogel that acts as an unclonable physical tag. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202507637\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Physical items are easily copied or faked because their built-in security tags are often weak or simple to clone. To solve this security gap, a team of researchers from China first mixed two chemicals together: polypyrrole, which conducts electricity; and polystyrene sulfonate, a flexible polymer. The result was a soft, conductive, jelly-like substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encryption technologies are vital in today\u2019s digital landscape to protect sensitive information from hackers and prevent fraud. While cutting-edge encryption has been developed for data, sophisticated protection for physical objects such as high-value products, access cards and documents has lagged behind until now. Scientists have now developed a new hydrogel that acts as an unclonable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1625,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-encryption","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}