I have found a software that is called Mathematica by Wolfram (https://www.wolfram.com/resources/physics/), with this software a scientist could determine the cross-sectional area of the proposed material, then compared it with others, say lead or uranium, if a significant improvement is found for nuclear reactor neutrinos in term of cross section area, then this would be important to support this research proposal. One could write a scientific article to support this.