CISS-Directed Electrospun Catalytic Conversion Mats

PROBLEM: Catalytic nanofiber mats with chiral groups could in principle steer spin-polarised electrons toward a pollutant or CO2 reaction, but the idea is rarely stated with the fiber, chiral, binding, and catalyst roles assigned. A mat that binds well yet converts poorly may be failing at the chiral step, the catalyst step, or the fiber transport step, and idea-stage records do not separate those possibilities. A shared proposal space should force those roles to be named together.

SOLUTION: IBM Cloud Ideas would host proposals for CISS electrospun catalytic mats that attach spinning conditions, chiral loading, DFT binding predictions, intended spin-selective step, catalyst placement, and energy budget to each idea. Contributors could compare water-based fiber variants and require regeneration accounting before an idea is marked test-ready. The shared record would keep the chiral, binding, and catalytic roles distinct for review.

EVIDENCE BASIS: CISS — chiral molecules transmit one electron spin preferentially; observed in DNA, peptides, and helicenes since 1999; DOCUMENTED as a phenomenon, device-scale use REPORTED/emerging. DFT (Kohn–Sham) predicts which surface groups bind which metal ions; Hohenberg–Kohn 1964, Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel 1998. Biosorption surface binding R−COOH + M2+ ⇌ R−COOM+ + H+ and Langmuir/Freundlich isotherms are textbook DOCUMENTED. Source: CISS literature since 1999; standard physical-chemistry textbooks.