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Here, we investigate a piezoresistive and electrochemical active electrospun nanofibers (NFs) mat as the sensitive element of the wearable physiological flex sensing platform. The use of one material sensitive to the two kinds of stimuli reduces the process-flow to two steps. We demonstrate that the final NFs pH-Flex Sensor can be used to monitor the deformation of a human body joint as well as the pH of the skin. A unique approach has been selected for pH sensing, based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). A linear dependence of the both the double layer capacitance and charge transfer re-sistance with the pH value was obtained by EIS, as well as a linear trend of the electrical resistance with the bending deformation. Gauge factors values calculated after the bending test were 45.84 in traction and 208.55 in compression mode, reflecting the extraordinary piezoresistive behavior of our nanostructured NFs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21124110","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,15]],"date-time":"2021-06-15T21:24:29Z","timestamp":1623792269000},"page":"4110","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Electrospun PEO\/PEDOT:PSS Nanofibers for Wearable Physiological Flex Sensors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6580-4315","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eve","family":"Verpoorten","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Science and Technology, DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2363-0307","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giulia","family":"Massaglia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Science and Technology, DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy"},{"name":"Center for Sustainable Future Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, 10144 Turin, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4991-9459","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Candido Fabrizio","family":"Pirri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Science and Technology, DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy"},{"name":"Center for Sustainable Future Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, 10144 Turin, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marzia","family":"Quaglio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Science and Technology, DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6140","DOI":"10.1002\/anie.201507333","article-title":"Smart electronic textiles","volume":"55","author":"Weng","year":"2016","journal-title":"Chem. 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