Terrific summary so far.
It further has more American scientists (Northwestern University and University of Colorado Boulder) verifying the simulations and that the model seems to be legit. At least it all lines up consistently.
What's crazy is how much the method of synthesis matters to small details.
It's like if you baked a cake mixing the batter clockwise, you'll get a drastically different result if you mix it counter-clockwise.
That means the synthesis method will determine whether or not you can get the copper atoms right into the correct alignment/pockets/sites for it to work. You basically have a lead and copper compound, but the copper atoms need to replace the lead atoms at the correct sites.
Like I mentioned earlier the gold substitute for copper seems to be working well and I'm pretty sure they'll find different combinations that will replicate the same effect maybe even better and easier, especially with A.I tools once we know what we're looking for.
Now everyone is trying to troubleshoot this thing and find the most reliable way to synthesize so that we get closer and closer to a conclusion based on a very promising discovery.
This is exactly the type of stuff I'd like to see A.I. used for.
Motherfukkers
coli scientist where ya at 
