Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gradient Multilayer Biosorbent Stacks for Energy Storage Electrodes

PROBLEM: A gradient electrode with a plasmonic layer could report interfacial binding at a chosen depth during cycling, but grading porosity and composition through the stack already complicates fabrication, and adding a metal–dielectric structure adds another variable that must survive cycling. An electrode design that improves reporting while weakening conduction or ion access is hard to spot without a shared record that compares gradients side by side.

SOLUTION: IBM Cloud Ideas would host a governed capability registry for plasmon-enhanced gradient electrodes, linking each graded design and plasmonic placement to its DFT binding model, its isotherm validation, and its deposition, curing, and regeneration energy budget. The workspace would require reuse and regeneration accounting for every recipe and keep low-temperature, water-based steps visible.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — surface plasmon resonance is collective electron oscillation at metal–dielectric interfaces, with field enhancement for sensing; gradient multilayers grade composition and porosity through the stack; DFT is grounded in Hohenberg–Kohn 1964 and Kohn–Sham 1965, Nobel Prize 1998; biosorption uses qe = (C0 − Ce)V/m. Source: Hohenberg–Kohn 1964; Kohn–Sham 1965; standard biosorption textbooks.