Surface Plasmon Resonance in Electrospun Nanofiber Biosorbent Scaffolds for Environmental Monitoring and Compliance Data

PROBLEM: Monitoring mats deployed in the field face fouling, variable flow, and repeated regeneration, and a plasmonic nanofiber mat can change its optical response as fibers age or particles are lost. A compliance reading is only defensible if the exact mat version, fiber recipe, and regeneration history behind it are preserved. Without versioned copies, a later reading cannot be shown to match the mat that was calibrated.

SOLUTION: Storage Copy Data Management would preserve versioned copies of the monitoring record for plasmon-enhanced electrospun mats, linking each dataset to its exact fiber recipe, plasmonic placement, DFT prediction, isotherm validation, and regeneration history. The capability would support retention and reproducibility checks so a compliance reading can be traced to the specific mat that produced it.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — surface plasmon resonance is collective electron oscillation at metal–dielectric interfaces, with field enhancement for sensing; electrospun nanofiber scaffolds provide high-surface-area fiber mats with biosorbent embedded in fibers; DFT (Hohenberg–Kohn 1964, Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998) predicts binding; biosorption uses Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. Source: Hohenberg–Kohn 1964; Kohn–Sham 1965; standard biosorption textbooks.