Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion

Curtis P. Berlinguette (), Yet-Ming Chiang, Jeremy N. Munday, Thomas Schenkel, David K. Fork, Ross Koningstein and Matthew D. Trevithick ()
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Curtis P. Berlinguette: University of British Columbia
Yet-Ming Chiang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy N. Munday: University of Maryland
Thomas Schenkel: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David K. Fork: Google LLC
Ross Koningstein: Google LLC
Matthew D. Trevithick: Google LLC

Nature, 2019, vol. 570, issue 7759, 45-51

Abstract: Abstract The 1989 claim of ‘cold fusion’ was publicly heralded as the future of clean energy generation. However, subsequent failures to reproduce the effect heightened scepticism of this claim in the academic community, and effectively led to the disqualification of the subject from further study. Motivated by the possibility that such judgement might have been premature, we embarked on a multi-institution programme to re-evaluate cold fusion to a high standard of scientific rigour. Here we describe our efforts, which have yet to yield any evidence of such an effect. Nonetheless, a by-product of our investigations has been to provide new insights into highly hydrided metals and low-energy nuclear reactions, and we contend that there remains much interesting science to be done in this underexplored parameter space.

Date: 2019
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