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The as-obtained sensor exhibits impressive stretchability with wide-range strain (from 0.1% to 400%), good bending properties and high sensitivity, whose gauge factor can reach 7.9. Importantly, the sensors show excellent biological compatibility and succeed in monitoring the diverse human activities ranging from the complex large-scale multidimensional motions to subtle signals, including wrist, finger and elbow joint bending, finger touch, breath, speech, swallow behavior and pulse wave.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17112621","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,14]],"date-time":"2017-11-14T10:58:32Z","timestamp":1510657112000},"page":"2621","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":70,"title":["Wearable Wide-Range Strain Sensors Based on Ionic Liquids and Monitoring of Human Activities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Shao-Hui","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China"},{"name":"Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China"}]},{"given":"Feng-Xia","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China"}]},{"given":"Jia-Jia","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China"}]},{"given":"Hong-Dan","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China"}]},{"given":"Jing-Hui","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China"}]},{"given":"Ge-Bo","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2228","DOI":"10.1002\/adma.200904054","article-title":"Stretchable, large-area organic electronics","volume":"22","author":"Sekitani","year":"2010","journal-title":"Adv. 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