白身魚の筋原繊維タンパク質を原料としたソフトロボット材料の試作

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The goal of this research is to develop a novel manufacturing method for soft robots. In this article, we develop an initial prototype of hydrogel that is made from fish myofibrillar proteins. It is known that a kind of elastic hydrogel can be produced by adding salt to screw-pressed fresh muscles of animals and heating it. This phenomenon has long been exploited in the field of food manufacturing, and a wide variety of fish jelly products has been made from whitefish paste that is high in the myofibrillar proteins. A few manufacturing method such as a manual 3D printing are proposed by focusing on a mechanical property of the whitefish paste that has viscosity and shape retaining ability even before curing process by heating.