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Created on Nov 13, 2026

Non-Equilibrium Dissipative-Flow Atomic Layer Deposition Heavy-Metal Capture and Recovery

PROBLEM: Atomic layer deposition gives angstrom-precise conformal oxide layers, but a capture device still runs under continuous flow, so binding sites experience a moving, non-equilibrium feed. A perfectly uniform coating can still underperform if its pore access, regeneration energy, and flow history are not managed together.

SOLUTION: Storage Copy Data Management would preserve versioned records for dissipative-flow ALD capture stacks, keeping each deposition recipe, DFT binding prediction, isotherm validation, and regeneration cycle as a retrievable, immutable copy. Operators could restore the exact configuration that was measured and compare it against any later change.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Dissipative structures are maintained by energy flow; Source: Prigogine, Nobel Prize 1977. DFT via Kohn–Sham equations predicts surface-group binding (Hohenberg–Kohn 1964, Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998); biosorption batch isotherms qe = (C0 − Ce)V/m and Langmuir/Freundlich isotherms are textbook DOCUMENTED. ALD deposits angstrom-precise conformal oxide layers.

Idea priority Low