{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"authority_legitimacy_and_consent_foundations__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["battery electrolyte batch disposition conflicting test results shared facility committee","reactive materials disposition committee batch quarantine appeal","battery research laboratory electrolyte safety SOP shared facility"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"No exact public example of an electrolyte-batch disposition panel with the proposed mandate, passport, representation, and appeal structure was found; adjacent laboratory-safety governance was found."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["laboratory chemical safety committee hazardous material approval appeal review batch quarantine","Material Review Board nonconforming material disposition authority release rework scrap","chemical batch disposition review board quarantine release quality unit authority"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["OSHA chemical hygiene plan prior approval operations designated personnel standard","university laboratory safety committee charter variance hazardous chemical","NASA Material Review Board nonconforming material disposition"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["lithium ion battery electrolyte safety thermal stability gas evolution testing","material review board delegated authority technical competence documentation review","laboratory safety committee charter expertise representation voting variances"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"29 CFR 1910.1450 — Occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in laboratories","publisher":"U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration","url":"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1450","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Covered employers must implement a written Chemical Hygiene Plan with safety procedures and criteria for exposure controls.","The plan must identify circumstances requiring prior approval and designate responsible personnel, including a qualified Chemical Hygiene Officer and, where appropriate, a Chemical Hygiene Committee.","Unknown laboratory byproducts must be treated as hazardous, and the employer retains worker-protection obligations."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Laboratory Safety Committee","publisher":"University of Iowa Environmental Health and Safety, Office of the Vice President for Research","url":"https://ehs.research.uiowa.edu/lab-safety/laboratory-safety-committee","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["The university has a formally established Laboratory Safety Committee with chemical-safety experts, a graduate-student representative, Risk Management, the Chemical Hygiene Officer, facilities roles, and other stakeholders.","Its charter provides for hazard and incident review, remedial actions, review of requests for variances, quorum, and majority voting.","This is established practice for chartered, represented, evidence-informed governance of laboratory chemical and physical hazards."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"NPR 8735.2A, Appendix C — Material Review Board and Failure Analysis Participation","publisher":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","url":"https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayCA.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_8735_002A_&page_name=AppendixC","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Material Review Board representatives are selected for technical competence and formally designated, with education and experience documented.","The representative determines whether nonconforming material is within the board's disposition authority or requires contracting-officer approval.","The process requires clear discrepancy documentation, concurrence or disapproval, escalation recommendations, implementation follow-up, and verification of repair or disposal."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"How Electrolytes Influence Battery Safety","publisher":"The Electrochemical Society","url":"https://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/sum/sum12/sum12_p045_049.pdf","source_type":"SECONDARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Conventional lithium-ion electrolytes can be volatile and flammable and can release substantial heat and gas under elevated voltage or temperature.","Electrolyte safety depends on interacting properties including formulation, thermal stability, decomposition, gas evolution, flammability, toxicity, and cell performance.","The article identifies limitations in simplified flammability testing and describes tradeoffs that make electrolyte-safety assessment technically non-unitary."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The operational substrate is visible: electrolyte hazards are multi-dimensional, laboratory employers need written authority and prior-approval arrangements, and universities use represented safety committees to review hazards and variances. NASA's older Material Review Board practice also demonstrates the general need for one authorized disposition of unresolved nonconforming material. The search did not directly establish that shared battery facilities experience persistent inconsistent handling specifically because researchers contest a decision-maker's legitimacy, competence, representation, reasons, or reviewability; that narrower causal diagnosis remains unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"NASA Material Review Board process for nonconforming material","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"A formally delegated forum uses technically competent representatives to determine jurisdiction, examine documented discrepancies, approve or reject a disposition, escalate matters outside its authority, and follow implementation through repair or disposal.","remaining_difference":"It addresses supply-quality nonconformance rather than ambiguous reactive-material hazards and does not disclose the proposed affected-user representation, conflict recusals, time-limited batch passport, dissent record, or independent procedural appeal."},{"name":"University of Iowa Laboratory Safety Committee charter","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"A chartered, multidisciplinary laboratory-safety committee includes technical, student, risk, hygiene, facilities, and research representation; reviews evidence and variances; initiates remedial action; and decides matters by defined voting rules.","remaining_difference":"It operates primarily at institutional policy and variance level rather than issuing temporary, batch-specific release, conditional-use, quarantine, retest, or disposal dispositions."},{"name":"OSHA Chemical Hygiene Plan authority and prior-approval framework","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Requires written safety procedures, qualified responsibility, potential committee governance, prior approval for specified laboratory operations, additional controls, and protection of affected workers.","remaining_difference":"It leaves institutional implementation open and does not prescribe a case-level disposition panel, passport, expiry, recusal, representation, or appeal mechanism."}],"prior_art_disposition":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Relative to the already-established combination of laboratory-safety committees and Material Review Boards, the remaining claim is that adding an electrolyte-specific jurisdiction, affected technician and uninvolved-user representation, conflict recusals, time-limited batch passport, recorded uncertainty and dissent, and independent remand will measurably increase recognition of one governing status in contained ambiguous cases without delaying emergency protection.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"Falsify the remaining claim if, in blinded reconstruction of eligible closed cases, the proposed shadow panel does not outperform an ordinary safety-officer or existing-committee process on jurisdiction agreement, identification of the binding status and appeal route, rationale completeness, and cross-role recognition; or if the added procedures require unnecessary sensitive disclosure, cannot distinguish evidence disputes from authority disputes, or create any route for delaying an emergency hold.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct formulations, historical Material Review Board and Chemical Hygiene Committee terminology, current standards and institutional practices, and combinations of technical and governance components. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained, including federal and agency sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The sources support hazardous and technically multi-factor electrolyte behavior and the institutional need for prior approval, qualified responsibility, committee review, and authoritative material disposition. The specific legitimacy-conflict mechanism is only partly supported.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although the core panel-disposition architecture substantially collides with existing practice, the incremental electrolyte-specific package and its claimed effect on cross-role recognition remain operationally distinguishable and falsifiable.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A 14-day shadow adjudication of at most eight closed, redacted cases is limited, reversible, and capable of comparing jurisdiction agreement, reason-record completeness, status recognition, disclosure burden, and emergency-process interference without changing live permissions.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first test is retrospective and non-operational. Existing employer, emergency, regulatory, facility-access, and disposal authority remains intact; authorization, confidentiality controls, conflict screening, and the stated halt conditions are necessary prerequisites.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"screen_survival":false,"world_novelty_boundary":"This limited public-web screen found substantial structural collision through the combination of established laboratory-safety committees and technically credentialed Material Review Boards, but no exact electrolyte-specific implementation. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, prevalence, market size, expert acceptance, effectiveness, or realized value; additional institutional-procedure, quality-system, incident-record, scholarly, and patent searches could reveal closer or distinguishing prior art."}