In domains like chemistry, you hae this research process of "try every combo of material x process and see what you get".
Hopefully detailed null results will avoid too many people going down the same path. But even more hopefully, it will let other researchers read the process and perhaps find another way to actually get to success.
"We tried A x B in this way, that way, some other way, none of them worked" is pretty valuable info. Also pretty good when it comes to confirmation of theoretical work
>We tried A x B in this way, that way, some other way, none of them worked
How searchable is this data? Like, do I need to be an expert who is up-to-date on most proceedings in the subfield to know this, or is this information easy to pull up with a few searches?
Hopefully detailed null results will avoid too many people going down the same path. But even more hopefully, it will let other researchers read the process and perhaps find another way to actually get to success.
"We tried A x B in this way, that way, some other way, none of them worked" is pretty valuable info. Also pretty good when it comes to confirmation of theoretical work