{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"agentic_control_loop_design__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["concrete curing plastic sheet heat buildup evaporation moisture retention temperature cracking official guide","patent concrete curing cover temperature humidity responsive vent membrane","\"concrete curing\" \"smart membrane\" humidity temperature"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"No retained source disclosed a concrete-curing membrane with mechanically separate humidity and temperature inputs implementing a humidity-priority AND gate."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["humidity responsive membrane hydrogel pores water vapor permeability temperature responsive wax actuator ventilation","patent humidity temperature controlled passive vent hydrogel wax actuator shutter","\"humidity-responsive\" \"wax actuator\" vent"],"source_ids":["SRC4"],"no_result_note":"Older and adjacent terms—smart membrane, thermo-moisture-responsive polymer, hygromorphic flap, wax actuator, and passive vent—found component precedents but not the proposed concrete-specific series linkage."},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["smart vapor retarder variable permeability humidity responsive membrane product","concrete curing covers reflective sheet fixed permeability ASTM ACI curing standard"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["passive humidity actuated ventilation flap hydrogel temperature responsive wax dual stimulus","site:nature.com humidity temperature responsive membrane adaptive vapor transport pores","site:pubs.acs.org humidity temperature dual responsive membrane water vapor permeability actuator pores"],"source_ids":["SRC4"],"no_result_note":"Humidity-actuated ventilation flaps and thermo-moisture-responsive polymers were found, but the retained literature did not show an independently temperature-actuated, humidity-vetoed shutter applied to concrete curing."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"How can the effectiveness of curing be measured?","publisher":"American Concrete Institute","url":"https://www.concrete.org/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx?faqid=802","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Moisture control in fresh concrete helps achieve desired properties and minimize plastic-shrinkage cracking.","Evaporation above a critical level can cause cracking before initial set.","Wind, concrete and air temperature, and relative humidity are relevant to estimating evaporation rate.","Temperature, humidity, moisture loss, strength-related maturity, and observed cracking are legitimate curing measurements."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"ASTM C171-20: Standard Specification for Sheet Materials for Curing Concrete","publisher":"ASTM International","url":"https://store.astm.org/c0171-20.html","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Sheet curing materials are used to inhibit moisture loss from hydraulic-cement concrete.","White reflective sheet materials additionally reduce solar temperature rise.","Established sheet practices include curing paper, polyethylene film, and white-burlap-polyethylene sheet.","The standard describes fixed material properties and does not disclose condition-responsive shutters."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"US10675779B2 — Methods and apparatuses for curing concrete","publisher":"United States Patent and Trademark Office via Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US10675779B2/en","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["Concrete-curing covers using multilayer film, absorbent material, and adhesive are established prior art.","Concrete-curing covers have been evaluated using water-vapor transmission, internal relative humidity, humidity gradients, and surface-uniformity observations.","The disclosed covers retain moisture but do not disclose reversible humidity-and-temperature-gated mechanical vent shutters."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Reversible Humidity Sensitive Clothing for Personal Thermoregulation","publisher":"Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44208","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Nafion can reversibly absorb water and swell, and a humidity difference can bend a film rapidly.","Humidity-responsive flaps can open pores, promote sweat evaporation and heat release, and close when humidity equilibrates.","The demonstrated flap cycle is passive, reversible, rapid, and operates without external power.","This supplies close mechanism-level precedent for humidity-actuated ventilation and local action-effect feedback, though not for concrete curing or an independent thermal AND gate."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The curing problem is visible: authoritative sources link moisture control to reduced plastic-shrinkage cracking, identify temperature and humidity as evaporation determinants, and recognize both moisture-retaining and solar-reflective sheet functions. Concrete-cover testing also shows effects on internal humidity and uniformity. The stronger assertion that an impermeable cover itself causes consequential trapped hydration heat, and the exact frequency or magnitude of the proposed heat-versus-drying tradeoff for ordinary surface slabs, was not directly established by the retained sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Passive Nafion humidity-responsive ventilation flaps","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"A moisture-responsive polymer directly senses local vapor conditions, mechanically opens bounded sheet flaps without power, releases vapor and heat, and closes as the altered humidity returns toward equilibrium.","remaining_difference":"It lacks the concrete-curing application, a separate temperature-responsive wax actuator, a series mechanical AND gate, and an explicit humidity-priority veto that keeps pores closed when hot but dry."},{"name":"Multilayer moisture-retaining concrete-curing cover","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"A cover is placed directly on curing concrete to regulate moisture; its vapor transmission, internal humidity, humidity gradient, and surface uniformity are experimentally evaluated.","remaining_difference":"Its transport behavior is fixed rather than reversibly selected from local temperature and humidity, and it has no shutters, wax actuator, humidity veto, or action-effect closure loop."},{"name":"ASTM C171 reflective sheet curing materials","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Sheet covers inhibit moisture loss, while white reflective variants also limit solar temperature rise, addressing the same moisture-temperature objective with passive materials.","remaining_difference":"The properties are selected before installation and do not locally switch permeability in response to a hot-and-humid state."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For a fresh cementitious coupon, a normally closed membrane with independently characterized humidity and temperature thresholds will open measurable pore area only when interfacial humidity exceeds its engagement threshold and temperature exceeds its wax threshold, remain closed in hot-but-dry conditions, alter local heat and vapor flux when open, and return toward closure as either state falls. This concrete-specific two-input humidity-veto mechanism remains distinct from the retained static curing covers and single humidity-driven flaps; no superiority or novelty claim remains.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if pore motion is not reproducibly conditional on both threshold crossings, if hot-but-dry exposure opens the pores, if shutter movement does not measurably alter heat or vapor flux, if the shutters fail to return toward closure after humidity or temperature falls, or if the behavior is indistinguishable from a humidity-only flap or fixed-permeability cover.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The search covered the proposal directly, concrete-curing terminology and patents, older smart-membrane and hygromorphic terminology, products and ASTM/ACI practices, and combinations of humidity actuation, wax actuation, shutters, and responsive vapor transport. Exactly four opened sources from four publisher identities were retained, including official guidance, an official standard, a patent disclosure, and primary research.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The problem is partly supported: moisture loss and plastic-shrinkage cracking are directly documented, temperature and humidity are recognized curing variables, and curing sheets separately provide moisture retention and solar-temperature control. The claimed heat-trapping severity remains unconfirmed and should be measured rather than assumed.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Adjacent art substantially overlaps passive responsive venting, but the retained sources do not disclose the concrete-specific, independently temperature-actuated shutter with a humidity-priority mechanical veto. Its four environmental states and resulting pore positions are directly testable.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed randomized twelve-mortar-tile chamber comparison is bounded and mechanism-focused. Candidate, sealed-reflective, and mean-area-matched fixed-permeability groups can be exposed to predefined hot-humid, hot-dry, and cool-dry sequences while measuring shutter travel, interface and internal states, mass loss, and cracking, with explicit failure and rollback criteria.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A contained laboratory mortar-coupon test using precharacterized, fail-closed cartridges, ordinary cement protections, leakage containment, hard aperture stops, and a reserved sealed replacement cover presents no obvious authority stop. This does not authorize structural, occupied-building, or full-scale field use, and alkaline exposure, leakage, delamination, fouling, and fail-open behavior require monitoring.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded four-source screen found adjacent prior art and leaves a narrow, falsifiable concrete-specific dual-input humidity-veto claim. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, structural suitability, comparative effect size, or realized value."}