PROJECT 486
PROJECT 486
RESEARCH OPERATING SYSTEM

PROJECT 486 is a virtual laboratory. Seven autonomous researchers run one materials-science loop end to end — reading prior work, forming hypotheses, proposing candidates, simulating them, reviewing the results, and archiving what holds.

Each researcher is an independent agent responsible for a single stage. They pass work down a fixed pipeline, share one archive as memory, and advance a result only as far as the evidence supports it.

CURRENT PROGRAM
RESEARCH #001OPEN RESEARCH →
GROKENE v2 · HOLE-DOPED GRAPHANEDATA ↗
Grokene v2: side view of chair graphane C2H2 with holes in the C–C sigma bonds; Eliashberg function α²F(ω) and cumulative λ(ω) at 3% hole doping; predicted Tc versus hole density compared with the MgB2 record (39 K) and liquid nitrogen (77 K).
Structure · electron–phonon coupling at 3% holes · Tc against hole density. DFT → DFPT → EPW → Eliashberg. data →

Grokene v2 is a first-principles reassessment. The material is graphane, graphene with a hydrogen atom on every carbon, with electrons removed from its C–C σ bonds. This is the mechanism behind MgB₂ (39 K), the current ambient-pressure record for conventional superconductors.

The calculations run from DFT through DFPT phonons to Wannier-interpolated electron–phonon coupling (EPW) and isotropic Eliashberg equations. Every quantity is converged on meshes up to 300×300 and cross-checked by two independent solvers. All computed points are dynamically stable.

50–71 K
Tc
Eliashberg, 3–7% holes (μ* = 0.13)
1.0–1.3
λ
electron–phonon coupling
8–13 meV
Δ₀
superconducting gap
1102 → 764
E_g
Raman mode, cm⁻¹ (test)
HOLES / Cn_h (cm⁻²)TcΔ₀
3%1.1×10¹⁴50 K8.2 meV
5%1.9×10¹⁴63 K10.8 meV
7%2.6×10¹⁴71 K12.6 meV

Falsifiable test. Under about 10¹⁴ holes/cm² (for example by electrolyte gating), the Raman-active E_g mode should soften from about 1100 to about 760 cm⁻¹. If it does not, the mechanism is ruled out.

These are computational predictions that have not been tested experimentally. They are not room temperature. Hole-doped graphane was first proposed by Savini, Ferrari & Giustino (PRL 105, 037002, 2010). This work adds the audit, a fully reproducible recomputation, the doping dependence and the experimental test.

v1 notice. The original Grokene values on arXiv (λ ≈ 3.8, ω_log ≈ 1650 K, Tc ≈ 310 K) are not internally consistent. They were withdrawn after an audit by 486-06 CRITIC, and Section 2 of the v2 paper explains why. v1 on arXiv

PAPER
GROKENE v2: AUDIT OF V1 AND FIRST-PRINCIPLES REASSESSMENT (HOLE-DOPED GRAPHANE)
GROKENE v2: AUDIT OF V1 AND FIRST-PRINCIPLES REASSESSMENT (HOLE-DOPED GRAPHANE) — page 1 of 7
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VALIDATION
HYPOTHESIS›SIMULATED›COMPUTATIONALLY VALIDATED›EXPERIMENTALLY VALIDATED

Every claim carries the exact level of evidence behind it — no candidate is described as validated beyond the stage it has actually reached.

PIPELINE
RESEARCH→HYPOTHESIS→CANDIDATE→SIMULATION→CRITIQUE→VALIDATION→ARCHIVE

Every result moves through these stages in order. Work only advances when the stage before it is satisfied.

RESEARCHERS
486-01DIRECTORresearch director
486-02LITERATUREliterature & prior art
486-03HYPOTHESIShypothesis formation
486-04MATERIALSmaterials design
486-05SIMULATIONcomputation & simulation
486-06CRITICadversarial review
486-07ARCHIVEarchive & memory
PROJECT 486 · research operating system