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Conductive hydrogel have attracted widespread attention in wearable electronic devices and human motion detection. However, designing self-healing hydrogel with high conductivity and excellent mechanical properties remains a challenge. In this...

Flexible piezoresistive sensors with high sensitivity, low cost, and wide response ranges are urgently required due to the rapid development of wearable electronics. Here, carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/graphene/waterborne polyurethane (WPU)/cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) composite aerogels (CNTs/graphene/WC) were fabricated by facile solution mixing and freeze-drying technology for high-performance pressure sensors. WPU and CNC were constructed as a 3D structure skeleton, and the synergistic effect of CNTs and graphene was beneficial to enhancing the sensing performance. The obtained pressure sensor exhibits a highly porous network structure, remarkable mechanical properties (76.16 kPa), high sensitivity (0.25 kPa–1), an ultralow detection limit (0.112 kPa), and high stability (>800 cycles). More importantly, the piezoresistive sensor could be successfully used to detect various human motions such as finger bending, squatting–rising, walking, and running and effectively extract real-time information by the electrical signals. In addition, the CNTs/graphene/WC composite aerogel exhibits excellent thermal insulation performance, which can withstand 160 °C for a long time without any damage to the structure. The CNTs/graphene/WC composite aerogel, because of its thermal insulation property, endows the sensor with the potential for application in high-temperature environments. The results indicate that CNTs/graphene/WC composite aerogels possess high sensing performance and outstanding thermal insulation, which means that the aerogels could be used as flexible, wearable electronics.

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