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Most of the sensors aim to detect small pressure, such as fingertip tactile sensing, but only a few are focused on high-pressure sensing, such as foot pressure sensing during men\u2019s walking. In this work, a liquid metal-based stretchable sensor for large-pressure measurement is investigated. This sensor is fully stretchable because it is made of soft materials. However, when the soft sensor is subjected to high pressure, the liquid metal easily leaks from microchannels because it maintains the liquid state at room temperature. We therefore propose to fabricate liquid metal-based leakage-free electrodes to handle the liquid-metal leak. Parametric studies are conducted to compare this sensor with liquid-metal-only electrodes and leakage-free electrodes. The leakage-free electrodes increase the measurement ranges from 0.18, 0.18, and 0.15 MPa to 0.44 MPa, with higher linearity and precision. The improvement in the liquid-metal electrode enables the sensors to work stably within 0.44 MPa pressure and 20% strain. In addition, we integrate two capacitors, namely, a working capacitor and a reference capacitor, into one sensor to reduce the influence of parasitic capacitance brought about by external interference. This stretchable capacitive sensor capable of working under a wide range of pressure with good repeatability, sensitivity, and linearity, exhibits great potential use for wearable electronics. Finally, the method for fabricating leakage-free electrodes shows great value for hyperelastic electronics manufacturing and micromachine technology.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19061316","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,18]],"date-time":"2019-03-18T04:06:55Z","timestamp":1552882015000},"page":"1316","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["Stretchable Pressure Sensor with Leakage-Free Liquid-Metal Electrodes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Lunjia","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"A Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4267-7648","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meng","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"A Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Ronghang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"A Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Zhongshan","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"A Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4074-4720","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lin","family":"Gui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"A Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100039, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kramer, R.K., Majidi, C., Sahai, R., and Wood, R.J. 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