A flexible and wearable sensor is prepared to monitor human motions such as joint motion, speaking, breathing, and slight blood pulsation.

Biomimetic skin-like electric materials have been rapidly developed for human–machine interfaces, health monitoring, and soft robots. However, achieving a combination of mechanical and sensory properties like those of human skin remains a challenge. Here, a bioinspired physical cross-linking hydrogel sensor is designed and fabricated on the basis of an ionic conductive hydrogel with hybrid latex particles in a physically cross-linked network. The hydrogels exhibit excellent mechanical adaptability similar to that of human skin, including a low modulus, excellent stretchability, robust elasticity, rapid self-recoverability, and a good antifatigue property. Moreover, the addition of LiCl gives the hydrogel ideal ionic conducive behavior as a high-performance wearable sensor. The hydrogel-based sensor exhibits high sensitivity (GF = 5.44) over a broad strain window (0.25–2000%), excellent pressure sensing capability, a rapid response time, negligible hysteresis, and good durability. As a result, the hydrogel sensor can monitor various human motions, including large-scale joint bending, running and jumping, and tiny phonating and breathing. Therefore, the strategy will broaden the path for the new generation of biomimetic sensors with skin-like mechanical and strain and pressure sensing performances.

Bioinspired strategies for designing hydrogels with excellent adhesive performance have drawn much attention in biomedical applications. Here, bioinspired adhesive hydrogels tackified by independent nucleobase (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil) from DNA and RNA are successfully explored. The nucleobase‐tackified hydrogels exhibit an excellent adhesive behavior for not only various solid substrates (polytetrafluoroethylene, plastics, rubbers, glasses, metals, and woods) but also biological tissues consisting of heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, bone, and muscle. The maximum adhesion strength of A‐, T‐, G‐, C‐, and U‐tackified hydrogels on the aluminum alloy surface is 780, 166, 250, 227, and 433 N m−1, respectively, superior to that of pure PAAm hydrogels (40 N m−1) after adhesive time of 10 min. It is anticipated that bioinspired hydrogels will play a significant role in the applications of wound dressing, medical electrodes, tissue adhesives, and portable equipment. Moreover, the bioinspired nucleobase‐tackified strategy would open a novel avenue for designing the next generation of soft and adhesive materials.

Wet-resistant flexible electronics have gained impressive attention as underwater wearable sensors, all-weather electronic skins, and implantable bioelectrodes. However, fabricating a stable and nonswelling hydrogel-based electronic device used in diverse liquid media is challenging and promising for the progress of wet-resistance electronics. Herein, a solvent-resistant and tough hydrogel conductor is successfully prepared and exhibits fatigue resistance, antifreezing behavior, and nonswelling and wet-adhesion performances in organic and aqueous solutions. Moreover, the hydrogels are utilized as all-weather wearable sensors featuring high sensitivity, reliability, and wide sensing ranges for monitoring and distinguishing various physiological signals and human motions. Furthermore, the hydrogel sensors can even achieve accurate and stable mechanical sensing of pressure, bending, and stretching in diverse solvents consisting of water, chloroform, hexane, and dodecane. It is envisioned that the solvent-resistant and antifreezing hydrogel conductor can present promising feasibility as all-weather electronic skins, intelligent sensors in solvents, and soft robots in various harsh liquid environments.