Nowadays,
with the rapid development of artificial intelligence,
conductive hydrogel-based sensors play an increasingly vital role
in health monitoring and temperature sensing. However, the perfect
integration of the environmental stability and applied performance
of the hydrogel has always been a challenging and significant problem.
Herein, we report an environmentally tolerant, stretchable, adhesive,
self-healing conductive gel through multiple dynamic interactions
in the water/glycerol/ionic liquids medium, which can be used as a
high-performance strain and temperature sensor. The random copolymer
poly(acrylic acid-co-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate)
interacts with the branched poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) and Zr4+ ions via the dynamic covalent enamine bonds, coordinations,
and electrostatic interactions to improve stretchable (1300%), compressible,
fatigue-resistant (1000 cycles at 50% strain), and self-healing performance
(95%, 24 h). The combination of water/glycerol/ionic liquids imparts
the resulting gel with excellent electrical conductivity, anti-drying,
and anti-freezing performance. By means of the above excellent performance,
the gel could be used as the flexible strain or pressure sensor with
high sensitivity and stability for the detection of the movement,
expression, handwriting, pronouncing, and electrocardiogram (ECG)
signals in various models. Meanwhile, the resulting gel can be assembled
as the temperature sensor to trace the change of temperature accurately
and steadily, which has a wide operating window (0 to 100 °C),
an ultralow detection limit (0.2 °C), and high sensitivity (2.1%
°C–1). It is believed that the strategy for
the multifunction and high-performance gel will blaze a new trail
for the smart device in health management, temperature detection,
and information transmission under various environmental conditions.