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Created on Nov 12, 2026

Piezoelectric–Triboelectric Electrospun Nanofiber Mats for Catalytic Pollutant and CO2 Conversion

PROBLEM:
Catalytic nanofiber mats expose active sites on a high-area support, but flow, vibration, and fibre movement generate charge that may alter local surface chemistry in uncontrolled ways. A catalytic mat that is tested only under still conditions may behave differently once installed in a flowing stream. Reuse is also uncertain, because regeneration can damage fibres or strip active sites unevenly.

SOLUTION:
Storage Copy Data Management would provide a governed record capability that preserves the fibre recipe, DFT-guided active-site model, flow and strain conditions, and regeneration history for each catalytic mat batch. The capability would version each reuse cycle, retain the energy budget for spinning, drying, and regeneration, and make the full history retrievable so that a later run can be compared with the same mat's earlier performance. It manages catalytic evidence rather than asserting conversion.

EVIDENCE BASIS:
Piezoelectric/triboelectric coupling is DOCUMENTED: mechanical strain or contact generates charge and is used in nanogenerators. DFT (Hohenberg–Kohn 1964, Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998) predicts which surface groups bind which species. Biosorption is validated via batch isotherms, qe = (C0 − Ce)V/m, with Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms as textbook models. Source: textbook DFT and biosorption isotherm literature as summarised in the batch method.

Idea priority Low