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In recent times e-textiles have emerged as wonder safeguards due to the great potential background in space, military, healthcare, or portable electronics. As a result, widespread research and development have been done to make significant advancement in this field, but it still remains a key challenge to use one single product with multifunctional attributes with the past performance of key characteristics. In this work, phase-separated PEDOT:PSS ornamented with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets, deposited on the newly fabricated ultralightweight, superhydrophobic, and mechanically enriched merino wool/nylon (W−N) composite textile followed by the dipping and drying strategy. The open edges-layered structure of rGO helping uniform deposition of PEDOTs clusters, which allows the formation of a stacked layer of PEDOTs/rGO-PEDOTs/PEDOTs for robust three-dimensional electrical transforming channel network within the W−N textile surface. These dip-coated multifunctional textiles show high electrical conductivities up to 90.5 S cm −1 conjugated with a flexible electromagnetic interference shielding efficiency of 73.8 dB (in X-band) and in-plane thermal conductivity of 0.81 W/mK with a minimum thickness of 0.84 mm. This thin coating maintained the hydrophobicity (water contact angle of ∼150°) leading to an excellent EM protective cloth combined with real-life antenna performance under high mechanical or chemical tolerance. Interestingly, this multiuse textile can also act as an exceptional TASER Proof Textile (TPT) due to a short out of the electrical shock coming from the TASER by its unique conducting network architecture. Remarkably, this coated textile can get a response by the soft touch to lighten up the household bulb and could establish wireless communication via an HC-05 Bluetooth module as a textile-based touch switch. This developed fabric could perform as a new potentially scalable single product in intelligent smart garments, portable nextgeneration electronics, and the growing threat of EM pollution.

Macroporous hydrogel monoliths having tailor-made features, conductivity, superstretchability, excellent biocompatibility, and biodegradability, have become the most nurtured field of interest in soft biomaterials. Green method assisted reduced graphene oxide has been inserted by in situ free radical gelation into semi-IPN hydrogel matrix to fabricate conducting hydrogel. Mechanical toughness has been implemented for the graphene-polymer physisorption interactions with graphene basal planes. Moreover, the as-prepared 3D scaffold type monolith hydrogel has been rheologically superior regarding their high elastic modulus and delayed gel rupturing. κ-Carragenaan, one of the components of the hydrogel, has biodegradable nature. The most significant outcome is their low electrical percolation threshold and reversibly ductile nature. Reversible ductility provides them with rubber-like consistency in flow conditions. Surprising, the hydrogels showed dual stimuli-responsiveness, that is, environmental pH and external electrical stimulation. Electro-stimulation has been adopted here for the first time in semi-IPN systems, which could be an ideal alternative for iontopheretic devices and pulsatile drug release through skin. Regarding this, the hydrogel also has been passed to biocompatibility assay; they are noncytotoxic and show cell proliferation without negligible cell death in live-dead assay. The porosity of the nanocomposite scaffold-like gels was also analyzed by microcomputed tomography (μ-CT), which exhibited their connectivity in cell/voids inside the matrix. Thus, the experimentations are on the support of biocompatible soft material for dual-responsive tunable drug delivery.