A sweat-responsive covalent organic framework film for material-based liveness detection and sweat pore analysis

Covalent organic frameworks have shown considerable application potential and exceptional properties in the construction of stimulus-responsive materials. Here, we designed a sweat-responsive covalent organic framework film for material-based fingerprint liveness detection. When exposed to human sweat, the COFTPDA-TTFy film can transform from yellow to red. The COFTPDA-TTFy film, when touched by living fingers, can produce the naked-eye-identified fingerprint pattern through the sweat-induced color change, while artificial fake fingerprints cannot. This technique, which we named material-based liveness detection, can thus intuitively distinguish living fingers from fake fingerprints with a 100% accuracy rate. Additionally, the distribution of sweat pores on human skin can also be collected and analyzed by shortening the contact time. By merely washing with ethanol, all the samples can be utilized again. This work inventively accomplished material-based liveness detection and naked-eye-identified sweat pore analysis and highlighted their potential for use in clinical research and personal identification.

Qing Hao, Xiao-Rui Ren, Yichen Chen, Chao Zhao, Jingyi Xu, Dong Wang, Hong Liu