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Developing electrically conductive hydrogels with good electronic properties and excellent mechanical performance is significant to their potential applications. In this article, we present a strategy to fabricate tough, self-recoverable and electrically conductive hydrogels containing reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Poly(acrylic acid) grafted graphene oxide (GO-g-PAA) was synthesized and incorporated into chemically crosslinked polyacrylamide (PAM) networks to obtain GO-g-PAA/PAM hydrogels, which were further treated with ascorbic acid solution at ambient temperature to give rGO-g-PAA/PAM hydrogels. The interfacial interaction between GO/rGO and hydrogel matrix was improved by reversible hydrogen bonds between the grafted PAA chains and PAM matrix. Consequently, both GO-g-PAA/PAM and rGO-g-PAA/PAM hydrogels exhibited improved tensile properties, excellent energy dissipation, and rapid self-recovery. The in situ chemical reduction of GO-g-PAA in hydrogel matrix endowed rGO-g-PAA/PAM hydrogels with satisfactory electrical conductivity and obvious resistance change upon stretching. (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019, 137, 48781.