KIT | KIT-Bibliothek | Impressum | Datenschutz

Taxonomy for engineered living materials

Lantada, Andrés Díaz ; Korvink, Jan G. 1; Islam, Monsur 1
1 Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (IMT), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Engineered living materials (ELMs) are the most relevant contemporary revolution in materials science and engineering. These ELMs aim to outperform current examples of "smart", active or multifunctional materials, enabling countless industrial and societal applications. The "living" materials facilitate unique properties, including autonomy, intelligent responses, self-repair, and even self-replication. Within this dawning field, most reviews and documents have divided ELMs into biological ELMs, which are solely made of cells, and hybrid living materials, which consist of abiotic chassis and living cells. Considering that the most relevant feature of living material is that they are made of (or include) living cell colonies and microorganisms, we consider that ELMs should be classified and presented differently, more related to life taxonomies than materials science disciplines. Towards solving the current need for the classification of ELMs, this study presents the first complete proposal of taxonomy for these ELMs. Here, life taxonomies and materials classifications are hybridized hierarchically. Once the proposed taxonomy is explained, its applicability is illustrated by classifying several examples of biological ELMs and hybrid living materials, and its utility for guiding research in this field is analyzed. ... mehr


Volltext §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000148489
Veröffentlicht am 12.07.2022
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (IMT)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsdatum 17.10.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000148489
Nachgewiesen in Dimensions
arXiv
Relationen in KITopen
KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
KITopen Landing Page