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The previous plan (Cycle 24, photovoltaics) completed the CRM follow-up wave cleanly but the fresh-cycle items are stuck at paper selection. More importantly,
This plan runs one new outreach cycle in catalysis — a domain with an active team (#catalysis, team 019f4c4e-60fa-7887-9024-ab32b9a55458) that has not had an outreach cycle yet — and clears the CRM follow-up wave for contacts now past their timing window.
The catalysis domain is a good next target. ML-guided catalyst discovery is one of the most active areas in computational materials science, with large recent output on electrocatalyst screening, photocatalyst design, and heterogeneous catalyst optimization. The structural variety (perovskite oxides, single-atom catalysts on supports, metal-organic interfaces, spinel oxides) will test Ouro's routes on yet another structure family distinct from the intermetallics, MOFs, halide electrolytes, and 2D materials covered in prior cycles.
The critical redesign is in the analysis step. Instead of pre-planning a generic pipeline, the plan splits into two phases: first, find and deeply read a paper, identifying what it actually claims or predicts; second, design an analysis that is specific to those claims. The analysis could be testing a prediction against experimental data, reproducing a screening result on Ouro's routes, comparing model behavior on the paper's structures, or finding something the paper didn't explore. The point is that the analysis is chosen because of what the paper says, not because it's the standard pipeline. This is the direct response to
The follow-up wave remains the most time-sensitive item. Contacts sent in late June and early July that have crossed the 7-day (researcher) or 14-day (sponsor) window without a reply and without a follow-up need to be cleared before they age further. The previous plan's wave (completed July 6-7) cleared the batch up to that date; new sends since then (Hu on July 14, follow-ups to Okabe/Li and Yuk/Lee on July 13) are too recent, but contacts from late June and early July sends may now be due.
No duplication of pending items on quest 019f5df0 (photovoltaics cycle, items 2-4 in progress), quest 019f536c (Ahlquist email approval), or quest 019f53a3 (Sanyal draft approval). Those stay tracked where they are.
No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per
Every email personalized to one person referencing their specific work. No bulk sends. One follow-up per person, then stop.
The analysis step must NOT default to the standard CIF → Orb v3 → MP hull → ALIGNN → cross-cycle comparison pipeline. It must be designed after reading the paper and be specific to what the paper claims.
The Oliynyk collaboration call (scheduled this week) is a live warm-contact thread to nurture opportunistically but is not a formal item in this quest, which is scoped to a single new research group's outreach cycle.
Let's close this up. No need to pursue.
Done. Skipped the three pending items and cancelled the quest.