Electromagnetic interference (EMI) pollution poses risks to electronic devices and human health and has emerged as a major source of pollution. In addition to being low in weight and exhibiting high transparency, flexibility, and easy processability, the polymer-based transparent conductive films (TCFs) increasingly used for EMI shielding exhibit fragility, and scratches in TCFs during service usually cause severe electromagnetic wave leakage and waste. To address this issue, we designed a DMBA-modified oxime-carbamate polyurethane film with remarkable mechanical strength, high transmittance, and self-healing efficiency and prepared TCFs by uniformly depositing AgNWs and Ti3C2Tx MXene on the material surface. The TCFs show an ultra-low sheet resistance (18 Ω sq−1), high transmittance (82.8%), good EMI shielding effectiveness (SE, 27.1 dB), and excellent retention of properties after 1000 flexures and rapid recovery after three cutoff/self-repair cycles, demonstrating resistance against damage. The novel TCFs exhibit great potential for application in consumer electronics, radio communications, and radar stealth.
Traditionally, cardiovascular disease diagnosis has relied on invasive testing methods, which may cause anxiety or discomfort in patients. Noninvasive diagnostic technologies, such as wearable sensors, offer significant advantages by reducing these concerns. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an ultrasensitive technique well-suited for disease diagnosis, particularly when combined with machine learning (ML) algorithms. In this study, we introduce AgNW/MXene hydroxyl composite membranes as SERS substrates for cholesterol detection in sweat. The high specific surface area of MXene enhances the adsorption of target molecules, thereby improving SERS signal sensitivity. Cholesterol was successfully detected at a concentration of 10–8 M, demonstrating the robustness of the method over 50 stretch-release cycles. A random forest (RF) model was employed to classify sweat samples from healthy individuals and cardiovascular patients, achieving an accuracy of 83.5%. Compared to traditional invasive methods, our approach provides a noninvasive, highly sensitive, and durable alternative with the added advantage of easy integration into wearable diagnostic devices. The high sensitivity and durability of these wearable sweat sensors highlights their potential for advancing noninvasive cardiovascular disease detection.
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials have attracted intensive attention with the increased electromagnetic pollution, which are required to possess high transparency and flexibility for applications in visualization windows, aerospace equipment, and wearable devices. However, it remains a challenge to achieve high-performance EMI shielding while maintaining excellent light transmittance. Herein, a sandwich composite is constructed by coating the core material of transparent wood (TW) with silver nanowire (AgNW)@MXene, exhibiting a maximum transmittance of 28.8% in the visible range and a longitudinal tensile strength of 47.8 MPa. The average EMI shielding effectiveness can reach up to 44.0 dB under X-band (8–12.4 GHz), ascribed to the increased absorption shielding induced by the multireflection of electromagnetic waves within microchannels of the TW layer and the interfacial polarization between AgNW and MXene. Simultaneously, large-scale EMI shielding films can be conveniently produced by our proposed method, which provides inspiration for the development of advanced EMI shielding materials for wide applications.