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)
Polytile projects are a series of interdisciplinary research projects that have been collaborated on by Jenny Sabin's Design Lab in the Architecture Department and Dan Luo's Lab in the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department at Cornell. Polytile 4.0 project explores DNA-gel’s ability to help ceramic materials achieve self-healing function. In this project, DNA-Gel’s healing capability has first been proved, and an innovative computational method based on the Dijkstra Algorithm to generate efficient inside DNA-Gel storage channels has been developed. Then, the sequential fluid flow tests were conducted to test its feasibility. The self-healing ability test on actual ceramic tiles is still in progress. This research will also be extended to concrete and other architectural materials in the future.