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Workspace Storage Copy Data Management
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Created on Nov 14, 2026

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Phonon Engineering in 3D-Printed Porous Scaffolds for Heavy-Metal Capture and Resource Recovery

PROBLEM: A printed scaffold's pore network creates many solid–air interfaces that scatter phonons, so heat from regeneration spreads unevenly and deep pores may stay cool while surface pores overheat. Captured metals in the cool interior may never release, and the scaffold's usable capacity shrinks with each cycle even though its surface still captures. The print geometry and its thermal behaviour must be preserved together.

SOLUTION: Storage Copy Data Management would keep versioned copies of printed capture scaffolds — print file, pore geometry, phonon rationale per pore class, DFT binding prediction, isotherm plan, and regeneration temperature log — so a team can trace a capacity fade to the pore class that stopped regenerating. The capability would preserve earlier geometries for comparison when a new print underperforms.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — phonon engineering: thermal transport tuned by nanolayer interfaces and superlattices; 3D-printed scaffolds provide architected pore networks, print-then-functionalize; DFT predicts binding groups; batch isotherms are textbook. Source: Hohenberg–Kohn 1964; Kohn–Sham 1965.

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