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Spectral barcode label for fighting illegal waste dumps

Ziółkowski, Bartosz orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-6233-7977, Lau, King-Tong orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7818-7010 and Diamond, Dermot orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2944-4839 (2010) Spectral barcode label for fighting illegal waste dumps. In: EPA National Research Conference 2010, 23 June 2010, Dublin, Ireland.

Abstract
Illegal waste dumping is one of the biggest problem in environment protection. Shipments of waste are left in wastelands, forests or dumped into the sea. These activities are difficult to suppress because technologies available to track the waste, and hence the people responsible, are very limited.(1) This research focuses on developing an effective, low-cost way of labelling and detecting bulk waste material shipments. The technology is based on an easily retrievable material in the form of micro/nano magnets which are used as carrier for the spectral signal transducers (e.g. dyes and pigments). These pigment carrying magnetic particles are chemically and physically stable, can form unique spectral pattern to use as identifier tag. The project is divided into two parts: (i) the modification of the magnet particles with various dyes and pigments to form spectral codes (ii) the development of analytical technique for code readout.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:No
Subjects:Physical Sciences > Chemistry
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR)
Official URL:http://www.epa.ie/news/events/name,28096,en.html
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Environmental Protection Agency
ID Code:15430
Deposited On:28 Jun 2010 10:46 by Bartosz Ziolkowski . Last Modified 03 Jan 2019 11:37
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