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Animate materials mimic living systems, offering exciting possibilities in medicine. Embracing complexity in biomaterial design can create innovative, life-like materials for advanced medical treatments.

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  • Materials Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Animate materials, engineered to emulate living systems, are gaining significant traction across diverse industries.
  • Their potential applications span construction, transportation, and critically, medicine.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose that incorporating complexity into biomaterial design unlocks novel life-like properties.
  • To highlight opportunities for extending biomaterial capabilities and establishing new medical treatment paradigms.

Main Methods:

  • This article presents a conceptual framework and expert opinion.
  • It synthesizes current trends in animate materials and biomaterial design.

Main Results:

  • Designing biomaterials with inherent complexity can lead to innovative, life-like functionalities.
  • This approach offers a pathway to enhanced material performance and expanded therapeutic options.

Conclusions:

  • Embracing complexity in biomaterial design is key to developing advanced animate materials.
  • This strategy promises to revolutionize medical treatments by introducing unprecedented material capabilities.