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Security-Enhanced 3D Data Encryption Using a Degradable pH-Responsive Hydrogel
- Source :
- Nanomaterials, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 1744 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Based on degradable pH-responsive hydrogel, we report on an enhanced three-dimensional data encryption security technique in which a pH value is used for information manipulation. Featuring three types of states upon the pH value variation, namely, shrinkage, expansion and degradation, the hydrogel renders a limited pH value window as the “key” for information decryption. The pH-dependent shrinkage-to-expansion conversion of the hydrogel leads to a threshold pH value for retrieving the recorded data, whilst the degradability of the hydrogel, which can be tuned by adjusting the composition ratio of PEGDA/AAc, gives rise to a second threshold pH value for irreversibly sabotaging the retrieved data. Pre-doping silver ions in the hydrogel facilitates explicit recording and reading of binary data in forms of three-dimensional silver patterns through photoreduction and scattering, respectively, with a femtosecond laser. By accurately matching the vertical spacing of the encoded silver nanopatterns with the diffraction-limited focal depth of the decryption microscope, we can tune the pH value to encrypt and retrieve information recorded in layers and set a critical pH value to smash encoded information, which proves a highly secured 3D data encoding protocol. This strategy can effectively enrich data encryption techniques, vastly enhancing data security within unattained chemical dimensions.
- Subjects :
- degradable
pH-responsive hydrogel
data encryption
Chemistry
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20794991
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nanomaterials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3b27ca3702944b30ae113b1e6e01dfbc
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11071744