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Created on Nov 12, 2026

CISS-Selective Electrospun Nanofiber Heavy-Metal Capture

TITLE: CISS-Selective Electrospun Nanofiber Heavy-Metal Capture

PROBLEM: Electrospun mats can embed chiral biomass through a high-surface-area fiber network, offering many spin-selective sites for capture. The difficulty is that fiber spinning can disorder chiral groups, so a mat may contain the right molecules yet present them in a way that weakens spin selectivity. Capture teams need preserved versions of each fiber recipe and its uptake record to learn which spinning conditions keep the chiral effect intact.

SOLUTION: Storage Copy Data Management would keep versioned copies of CISS electrospun capture mats — spinning conditions, chiral loading, fiber structure intent, DFT binding predictions, intended spin-selective step, and batch-isotherm results — with rollback to any earlier mat. The capability would preserve drying and regeneration energy with each version so a working fiber recipe is never lost to an unrecorded change. Water-based, low-temperature spinning variants would be retained as distinct versions.

EVIDENCE BASIS: CISS — chiral molecules transmit one electron spin preferentially; observed in DNA, peptides, and helicenes since 1999; DOCUMENTED as a phenomenon, device-scale use REPORTED/emerging. DFT via Kohn–Sham equations; Hohenberg–Kohn 1964, Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998. Biosorption isotherms qe = (C0 − Ce)V/m and Langmuir/Freundlich models are textbook DOCUMENTED. Source: CISS literature since 1999; standard textbooks.

Idea priority Low