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  • Materials Science
  • Micro/Nano Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Microelectronic morphogenesis leverages information embedded in shape-changing materials.
  • Emerging in-built information technology reshapes materials in 3D for smart microdevices and microrobots.
  • Electronic information controlling morphology exhibits inheritable properties, akin to genetic information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review fundamental breakthroughs enabling microelectronic morphogenesis.
  • To analyze the integration of core cellular properties into technological systems.
  • To discuss the potential and necessity of this technology for sustainable high technology.

Main Methods:

  • Review of scientific literature on information-directed materials and microelectronic self-assembly.
  • Analysis of how cellular capabilities (self-maintenance, self-containment, self-reproduction) can be technologically replicated.
  • Exploration of construction-aware electronics, noncontact communication, and electronically supported learning for guided self-assembly.

Main Results:

  • Technological replication of cellular self-maintenance, self-containment, and self-reproduction is becoming feasible.
  • Modular design and self-assembly with reversible microscopic electrical connections pave the way for artificial organisms.
  • Construction-aware electronics facilitate error correction in microelectronic self-assembly.

Conclusions:

  • Information-directed materials are poised to create artificial organisms through modular design and self-assembly.
  • The core properties of life are increasingly achievable in technological systems.
  • This technology is crucial for developing sustainable high-technology solutions for society.