Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion.
Journal
Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2019
06 2019
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received:
25
05
2018
accepted:
11
03
2019
pubmed:
28
5
2019
medline:
28
5
2019
entrez:
29
5
2019
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Résumé
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.
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pubmed: 31133686
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1256-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-019-1256-6
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Review
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eng
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45-51Commentaires et corrections
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