The Bombay Technologist

Strengthening of Security Paper

Tanmay Jain

Bachelor of Technology, Surface Coating Technology

Karan Bhangaonkar

Bachelor of Technology, Surface Coating Technology

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Abstract

Security papers generally have a very short life span and hence cost a country billions of dollars for making new papers and in disposing of the old ones. It is therefore desirable that novel methods be explored for increasing the life span of such papers. Though numerous additives have been used till date, none of them have been able to increase the life span substantially. We applied inductive reasoning to establish various hypotheses for increasing the durability of paper, and did an exploratory research to determine the results of those hypotheses.