Fig. 5: Illustration of the multi-level information encryption and anti-counterfeiting.

a The schematic diagram of the information writing/erasing cycles and photographs of printed pattern taken under UV light on/off. b Demonstration of misleading information with disguised arrow pattern and displaying opposite direction upon creasing UV light. c Illustration of the spatial-time-resolved anti-counterfeiting by using different 4TPYBOH@PVA–Ln materials with lifetime gradients.