ICCF-9 Proceedings

The Ninth International Conference on Cold Fusion was held May 19 – 24, 2002 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Several papers from it are in our library.

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The ICCF-9 Proceedings

Conference Chairman Xing Zhong Li. Photo courtesy D. Nagel.

Talbott Chubb and Jean Paul Biberian, photo courtesy D. Nagel.

Two views of a multilayer thin-film deposition experiment shown during a visit to Great Wall Ti-Gold, Inc. The infrared thermal imaging camera is used to detect excess heat. Photos courtesy D. Nagel.

Zhongqun Tian, Martin Fleischmann and Michael Melich, photo courtesy D. Nagel.

Researchers visit the Great Wall, photo courtesy D. Nagel.

PROCEEDINGS

Recnum	Author	All Authors	Year Published	Title	Publisher	Volume	DateUploaded	Abstract	Keywords	SearchAll
3,043	Arapi, A.	Arapi, A., Ito, R., Sato, N., Itagaki, M., Narita, S., Yamada, H.	2002	Experimental observation of the new elements production in the deuterated and/or hydride palladium electrodes, exposed to low energy DC glow discharge	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1	2004-11-27	Elemental and isotopic structures of the palladium cathode before and after experiment under DC glow discharge were investigated by time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). Production of new elements with various atomic masses and impurities increase were surveyed. By analyzing obtained results, it was found that beryllium and nickel for deuterium-palladium system, and lithium, nickel and barium for hydrogen-palladium system, were generated during glow discharge experiments.	glow diacharge, D2, H2, transmutation, Ba, Ni, Li, Be, ICCF-9	Arapi, A., Ito, R., Sato, N., Itagaki, M., Narita, S., Yamada, H. 2002 Experimental observation of the new elements production in the deuterated and/or hydride palladium electrodes, exposed to low energy DC glow discharge The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Elemental and isotopic structures of the palladium cathode before and after experiment under DC glow discharge were investigated by time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). Production of new elements with various atomic masses and impurities increase were surveyed. By analyzing obtained results, it was found that beryllium and nickel for deuterium-palladium system, and lithium, nickel and barium for hydrogen-palladium system, were generated during glow discharge experiments. glow diacharge, D2, H2, transmutation, Ba, Ni, Li, Be, ICCF-9
3,044	Arata, Y.	Arata, Y., Zhang, Y. C.	2002	Picnonuclear fusion generated in "lattice-reactor" of metallic deuterium lattice within metal atom-clusters	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1			gas loading, sonofusion, heat, D2, He, nanoparticle, loading, ICCF-9	Arata, Y., Zhang, Y. C. 2002 Picnonuclear fusion generated in "lattice-reactor" of metallic deuterium lattice within metal atom-clusters The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science gas loading, sonofusion, heat, D2, He, nanoparticle, loading, ICCF-9
3,046	Asami, N.	Asami, N., Senjuh, T., Uehara, T., Sumi, M., Kamimura, H., Miyashita, S., Matsui, K.	2002	Material Behavior of Highly Deuterated Palladium	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science				Pd, D2, PdD, loading, composition lattice parameter structure, ICCF-9	Asami, N., Senjuh, T., Uehara, T., Sumi, M., Kamimura, H., Miyashita, S., Matsui, K. 2002 Material Behavior of Highly Deuterated Palladium The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Pd, D2, PdD, loading, composition lattice parameter structure, ICCF-9
3,050	Biberian, J. P.	Biberian, J. P., Lonchampt, G.	2002	Deuterium Gas Loading of Palladium Using a Solid State Electrolyte	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science		2002-08-15	ABSTRACT A palladium foil cathode, 50 mm in diameter, 100 ?m thick is placed between two anodic palladium foils of same dimensions. A proton conductor layer (poly-ethyleneoxide) (PEO) and phosphoric acid) is deposited between the cathode and the two anodes. The system is placed in a chamber filled with deuterium gas, at a temperature of 75?C. At first, deuterium fills the two anodes up to D/Pd = 0.48 measured by pressure decrease. Then a voltage is applied between cathode and anodes, and the cathode gets loaded by D⁺ electrochemical migration through the solid state electrolyte. Correspondingly, the pressure decreases. Loadings of up to 0.73 have been obtained. When voltages are reversed, the cathode deloads, and the pressure in the chamber increases. This method is well suited to measure over-potentials and absolute loadings. The input power is very low, since the production of D+ ions entering the cathode is close to 100% whereas in liquid electrolyte cells, a small fraction of the ions produced is absorbed by the cathode. Therefore excess heat measurement is easily detected.	Pd, D2, heat loading, ICCF-9	Biberian, J. P., Lonchampt, G. 2002 Deuterium Gas Loading of Palladium Using a Solid State Electrolyte The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ABSTRACT A palladium foil cathode, 50 mm in diameter, 100 ?m thick is placed between two anodic palladium foils of same dimensions. A proton conductor layer (poly-ethyleneoxide) (PEO) and phosphoric acid) is deposited between the cathode and the two anodes. The system is placed in a chamber filled with deuterium gas, at a temperature of 75?C. At first, deuterium fills the two anodes up to D/Pd = 0.48 measured by pressure decrease. Then a voltage is applied between cathode and anodes, and the cathode gets loaded by D⁺ electrochemical migration through the solid state electrolyte. Correspondingly, the pressure decreases. Loadings of up to 0.73 have been obtained. When voltages are reversed, the cathode deloads, and the pressure in the chamber increases. This method is well suited to measure over-potentials and absolute loadings. The input power is very low, since the production of D+ ions entering the cathode is close to 100% whereas in liquid electrolyte cells, a small fraction of the ions produced is absorbed by the cathode. Therefore excess heat measurement is easily detected. Pd, D2, heat loading, ICCF-9
3,051	Case, L. C.	Case, L. C.	2002	There is a Fleischmann-Pons effect. The process is electrolytic, but the effect is catalytic	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1			electrolysis, ICCF-9, D2O, H2O, case catalyst, heat	Case, L. C. 2002 There is a Fleischmann-Pons effect. The process is electrolytic, but the effect is catalytic The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science electrolysis, ICCF-9, D2O, H2O, case catalyst, heat
3,052	Castano, C. H.	Castano, C. H., Kim, S-O., Lipson, A. G., Woo, T., Miley, G. H.	2002	In-Situ Charactorization of Sputtered Pd Thin-Films Undergoing Electrolysis	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science				electrolysis, heat	Castano, C. H., Kim, S-O., Lipson, A. G., Woo, T., Miley, G. H. 2002 In-Situ Charactorization of Sputtered Pd Thin-Films Undergoing Electrolysis The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science electrolysis, heat
3,053	Castano, C. H.	Castano, C. H., Lipson, A. G., Kim, S-O., Miley, G. H.	2002	Calorimetric Measurements During Pd-Ni Thin Film-cathodes Electrolysis in Li2SO4/H2O Solution	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science		2003-02-20	A sensitive open-type calorimeter was used to measure excess heat production during electrolysis in Li2SO4/H2O solution with Pt-anode and Pd-Ni thin film cathodes 9000 ? thick, sputtered on Al2O3 substrate. In order to estimate the actual performance and possible measurement errors during electrolysis in the calorimeter used, including heat convection, bubbling and possible H2+O2 recombination, smooth Pt sheets were used as cathodes in special reference runs. It is shown that the Alumina/ Pd-Ni sample that survived during electrolysis achieved excess heat production of 20-25% of the input power (equivalent to 300 ? 30 mW).	electrolysis, heat	Castano, C. H., Lipson, A. G., Kim, S-O., Miley, G. H. 2002 Calorimetric Measurements During Pd-Ni Thin Film-cathodes Electrolysis in Li2SO4/H2O Solution The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science A sensitive open-type calorimeter was used to measure excess heat production during electrolysis in Li2SO4/H2O solution with Pt-anode and Pd-Ni thin film cathodes 9000 ? thick, sputtered on Al2O3 substrate. In order to estimate the actual performance and possible measurement errors during electrolysis in the calorimeter used, including heat convection, bubbling and possible H2+O2 recombination, smooth Pt sheets were used as cathodes in special reference runs. It is shown that the Alumina/ Pd-Ni sample that survived during electrolysis achieved excess heat production of 20-25% of the input power (equivalent to 300 ? 30 mW). electrolysis, heat
3,054	Celani, F.	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Mancini, A., D'Agostaro, G., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Quercia, P., Catena, C.	2002	Electrochemical D loading of palladium wires by heavy ethyl-alcohol and water electrolyte, related to Ralstonia bacteria problematics	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1	2004-11-26	Taking in considerations the several effects of new kinds of bacteria living in heavy water (discovered by us in 1999), from the point of view of Deuterium (D) overloading inside Palladium (Pd), it was developed (since June 2001) a new kind of electrolyte based on mixture of alcohol and water (both heavy) with proper addition of Strontium (Sr) and Mercury (Hg) salts in an acidic environment (DCl, D2SO4): all these procedure according to what developed from our group since 1996 for H2O solutions (without H2SO4) and, since 2000, for light water-alcohol (with H2SO4). It was found excess heat (by high accuracy flow calorimeter) and excess Tritium (T) production (by low background T measurement instrumentation) only when the loading ratio was quite high and some movements to D inside Pd was performed. Efforts will be done to increase the absolute values of such experimental results, in the near future.	electrolysis, alcohol, Pd, wires, loading, ICCF-9, D2O	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Mancini, A., D'Agostaro, G., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Quercia, P., Catena, C. 2002 Electrochemical D loading of palladium wires by heavy ethyl-alcohol and water electrolyte, related to Ralstonia bacteria problematics The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Taking in considerations the several effects of new kinds of bacteria living in heavy water (discovered by us in 1999), from the point of view of Deuterium (D) overloading inside Palladium (Pd), it was developed (since June 2001) a new kind of electrolyte based on mixture of alcohol and water (both heavy) with proper addition of Strontium (Sr) and Mercury (Hg) salts in an acidic environment (DCl, D2SO4): all these procedure according to what developed from our group since 1996 for H2O solutions (without H2SO4) and, since 2000, for light water-alcohol (with H2SO4). It was found excess heat (by high accuracy flow calorimeter) and excess Tritium (T) production (by low background T measurement instrumentation) only when the loading ratio was quite high and some movements to D inside Pd was performed. Efforts will be done to increase the absolute values of such experimental results, in the near future. electrolysis, alcohol, Pd, wires, loading, ICCF-9, D2O
3,057	Celani, F.	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Quercia, P., Mancini, A., D'Agostaro, G., Catena, C., Sandri, S., Nobili, C., Andressi, V.	2002	Evidence of anomalous tritium excess in D/Pd overloading experiments	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1	2003-01-27	Measurements of Tritium have been performed, using a very low background and accurate instrumentation, on electrolytes before and after Deuterium absorption in Palladium wires. Tritium was always present in the electrolytic cells, having long and thin Palladium wires (carefully degassed) as cathode and Platinum wire as anode, because "normal contamination" of deuterated liquids. Two different kinds of electrolytes were used (unusual, for several aspects, to conventional ones adopted in Cold Fusion experiments): the first one was composed by heavy water in DCl acidic environment (pH=4.5) with the addition of Strontium (and Mercury) salts at micro-molar concentration, the second one was composed by heavy ethyl alcohol--heavy water solution (concentration ratio about 11:1), acidic environment (DCl+D2SO4), with the addition of Strontium and Mercury concentrated as before. We have found anomalous Tritium production (at large statistical significance) only when the achieved loading ratio (D/Pd) was quite large (about 0.95) and several loading/deloading cycles had been performed.	tritium, electrolysis, D2O, ICCF-9, alcohol	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Quercia, P., Mancini, A., D'Agostaro, G., Catena, C., Sandri, S., Nobili, C., Andressi, V. 2002 Evidence of anomalous tritium excess in D/Pd overloading experiments The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Measurements of Tritium have been performed, using a very low background and accurate instrumentation, on electrolytes before and after Deuterium absorption in Palladium wires. Tritium was always present in the electrolytic cells, having long and thin Palladium wires (carefully degassed) as cathode and Platinum wire as anode, because "normal contamination" of deuterated liquids. Two different kinds of electrolytes were used (unusual, for several aspects, to conventional ones adopted in Cold Fusion experiments): the first one was composed by heavy water in DCl acidic environment (pH=4.5) with the addition of Strontium (and Mercury) salts at micro-molar concentration, the second one was composed by heavy ethyl alcohol--heavy water solution (concentration ratio about 11:1), acidic environment (DCl+D2SO4), with the addition of Strontium and Mercury concentrated as before. We have found anomalous Tritium production (at large statistical significance) only when the achieved loading ratio (D/Pd) was quite large (about 0.95) and several loading/deloading cycles had been performed. tritium, electrolysis, D2O, ICCF-9, alcohol
3,058	Chen, S.	Chen, S., Li, X. Z.	2002	Tritium production and selective resonant tunneling model	The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	1	2004-03-31	ABSTRACT ??????????? Two principles of the selective resonant tunneling model are recapitulated, and applied to the case of tritium production. The model can explain the tritium production in condensed matter nuclear reaction with no neutron and gamma radiation semi-quantitatively. A similar model may excess heat with no commensurate neutron and gamma radiation. Some experiments are suggested to test our explanation.	tritium, theory, ICCF-9	Chen, S., Li, X. Z. 2002 Tritium production and selective resonant tunneling model The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ABSTRACT ??????????? Two principles of the selective resonant tunneling model are recapitulated, and applied to the case of tritium production. The model can explain the tritium production in condensed matter nuclear reaction with no neutron and gamma radiation semi-quantitatively. A similar model may excess heat with no commensurate neutron and gamma radiation. Some experiments are suggested to test our explanation. tritium, theory, ICCF-9