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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2003
Anita Claire Jones, West Linton, GB;
James Stephen Barton, Gorebridge Midlothian, GB;
Jolyon Mark DE Freitas, Newbridge, GB;
Julian David Clayton Jones, West Linton, GB;
Philip Norman Spencer, Newbridge, GB;
Guy John Gregory, Livingston, GB;
Anita Claire Jones, West Linton, GB;
James Stephen Barton, Gorebridge Midlothian, GB;
Jolyon Mark De Freitas, Newbridge, GB;
Julian David Clayton Jones, West Linton, GB;
Philip Norman Spencer, Newbridge, GB;
Guy John Gregory, Livingston, GB;
Heroit-Watt University, Edinburgh, GB;
The University Court of The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB;
AOI Foils Limited, West Lothian, GB;
Abstract
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a coating material comprising: a functional coating component; and a fluorescent additive component whose fluorescence is substantially unquenched by the coating component, the fluorescent additive component having a peak fluorescence emission under excitation by visible or infrared light, the wavelength of that peak fluorescence emission being greater than 500 nm and lying outside the principal fluorescence absorption and emission wavelengths of the coating component.