Reveals effective crosstalk decoupling for temperature and pressure sensing in electronic textiles, suggesting improvements for wearable technology applications.
Human skin decouples concurrent thermal and mechanical stimuli, yet multimodal electronic textiles commonly suffer from signal crosstalk when temperature and pressure are read through a single channel. Here, we report a skin-inspired electronic textile built from a laminated nanoarchitecture assembled on knitted polyester by integrating silver nanowires (AgNWs) with MXene nanosheets and a protective polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) overlayer. The resulting e-textile forms a mechanically compliant, percolated AgNWs/MXene nanonetwork that combines high breathability (469 mm·s–1), durability (>4000 cycles), and biocompatibility, while enabling strain, pressure, and temperature sensing in one platform. To resolve temperature–pressure crosstalk, a universal decoupling framework is established with two complementary routes: (i) neural-network-assisted qualitative discrimination of resistance signatures (accuracy >98.7%) and (ii) quantitative decoupling by leveraging a pressure-independent thermoelectric descriptor (Seebeck coefficient) together with the temperature coefficient of resistance to separate temperature-induced and pressure-induced resistance components. The decoupling approach could be applied to a variety of different sensors and is validated through gesture recognition and information transmission, making it a promising candidate for applications in healthcare monitoring, human-machine interfaces, and wearable electronics.
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