He said the discovery was not published for 10 years due to the work needed to verify the finding.

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The bank needed to verify the identity of any person initiating large transactions, according to Joseph Calaceto, Chase's VP of security strategy and infrastructure.

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Both methods can be applied to a broad selection of objects, making them ideal candidates for anti-counterfeit detection for everything from diamonds to passports -- all that's needed to verify authenticity is an optical microscope.

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