PolyTile 4.0
A Project by Jenny Sabin Lab
Cornell University
Polytile 4.0 Research Team
Chenming He*, Zeyu Li*, Dong Wang*, Lucy Wang*, Dan Luo, Jenny E. Sabin (*Researchers contributed equally)
The PolyTile series is an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration between Jenny Sabin's Lab at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and Dan Luo's Lab in the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department at Cornell. Polytile 4.0 explores DNA-gel’s ability to help ceramic materials achieve self-healing function. In this project, the healing capacity of DNA-Gelhas been demonstrated experimentally proven. Next,an innovative computational method based on the Dijkstra Algorithm is applied togenerate efficient iDNA-Gel storage channels.. Then, the sequential fluid flow tests were conducted to test its feasibility. This research will also be extended to concrete and other architectural materials in the future.