And does anyone know how the chemical makeup of the sea cucumber can be used for future objects that want to liquify and resolidify? For example, to slip through a crack or crevice.
Also, is there a way you can control the shape of what you resolidify? I.e. turns into a shovel|||This tissue of sea cucumber is named mutable collagenous tissue (MCT).
"Mutable collagenous tissue. The skeleton exists within a tissue that enables it to lock or unlock as whole. This enables the animal to hold a particular position without expending any energy - very useful when trying to open a clam or other prey."
http://everything2.com/title/echinoderma鈥?/a>
Research on it is still going on.
Some more or less actual publications/abstracts.
"Mutable collagenous tissue: overview and biotechnological perspective."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17152鈥?/a>
This publication deals i.a. with Biotechnological Potential of MCT in Echinodermata:
http://books.google.de/books?id=8_VzEC2D鈥?/a>
"Purification, characterization and cloning of tensilin, the collagen-fibril binding and tissue-stiffening factor from Cucumaria frondosa dermis"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob鈥?/a>
"The echinoderm collagen fibril"
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journ鈥?/a>
"Dynamic mechanical characterization of a mutable collagenous tissue"
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/ab鈥?/a>
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