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Top: Pictures of a sea cucumber, in the threatened (stiff) and relaxed (soft) and state. Bottom: Simplified schematic representation of the switching mechanism found in the sea cucumber dermis and used in physiologically responsive mechanically-adaptive nanocomposites. A soft matrix is reinforced with rigid particles, whose interactions in are moderated by a chemical agent.
