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Created on Nov 13, 2026

Non-Equilibrium Dissipative-Flow Gradient Multilayer Energy Storage Electrodes

PROBLEM: Gradient electrodes for supercapacitors or batteries are meant to ease ion transport from surface to interior during fast, non-equilibrium cycling, but a gradient that helps at one rate can hinder at another. Without versioned records of grade, cycling rate, and energy budget, a team cannot tell which gradient was actually tested.

SOLUTION: Storage Copy Data Management would preserve versioned copies of gradient-electrode designs, each tied to its DFT binding basis, rate-dependent cycling evidence, deposition and drying energy, and regeneration accounting. Later designs could be compared against the exact preserved copy that was measured.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Dissipative structures maintained by energy flow; Source: Prigogine, Nobel Prize 1977. DFT is Hohenberg–Kohn 1964 and Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998; biosorption isotherms and surface binding R−COOH + M2+ ⇌ R−COOM+ + H+ are textbook DOCUMENTED. Gradient multilayers grade composition/porosity through the stack.

Idea priority Low