Wearable pressure sensors are crucial for real-time monitoring of human activities and biomimetic robot status. Here, the ultrasensitive pressure sensor sponge is prepared by a facile method, realizing ultrasensitive pressure sensing for wearable health monitoring. Since the liquid metal in the sponge-skeleton structure under pressure is conducive to adjust the contact area with nitrogen-doped graphene nanosheets and thus facilitates the charge transfer at the interface, such sensors exhibit a fast response and recovery speed with the response/recovery time 0.41/0.12 s and a comprehensive response range with a sensitivity of up to 476 KPa −1 . Notably, the liquid metal-based spongy pressure sensor can accurately monitor the human body's pulse, the pressure on the skin, throat swallowing, and other activities in real time, demonstrating a broad application prospect. Those results provide a convenient and low-cost way to fabricate easily perceptible pressure sensors, expanded the application potential of liquid metal-based composites for future electronic skin development.

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Magnetic thermal hysteresis (MTH) associated with a paramagnetic (PM)-antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase transition was found in an Fe-24.4Mn-5.9Si-5.1Cr shape-memory alloy. Aside from the magnetic field (H), the driving rate (v) can also tune the critical temperature of the magnetic transition and cause an increase in MTH. The magnetic phase diagram obtained is discussed. The equation for MTH was deduced based on the Landau model for a PM-AFM transition that includes H and v dependence, which gives a reasonable account of the experimental results

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