All in all, this Zhao paper reinforces the strategy of JoJo and/or anyone else who may be considering it - to work with hydrogen and CNT. I hope that a number of experimenters can get hold of adequate material to try, and will report results, even if negative.
If you want to tie this paper into a particular Ni-H theory – there is the nanomagnetism concept of Ahern. That theory is a work in progress, but it fits right into the picture of high-temperature local superconductivity for sustaining near-fields and thereby reducing randomness, in order to arguably form a ‘transient condensate.’ As to why magnetism would be important – very simply this gets back to another form of structural uniformity, and to boson statistics. Two bound protons in a Casimir cavity represent the bare minimum composite boson, but already at identical ‘compreture’ due to the cavity containment. Magnetism aligns spin, so immediately you have a near-condensate in the sense of extreme DFR ("Divergence From Randomness") in the physical properties of those atoms. Even if - from this highly structured but non-cryogenic state forward - a “virtual BEC” can lasts only a picosecond due to thermal irregularities – all the better … since on decay of the transient condensate - there will be an expected huge acceleration gradient, courtesy of Coulomb repulsion. A transient or virtual BEC may actually be preferred over the ultracold variety. Jones From: Eric Walker http://cdn.intechweb.org/pdfs/17002.pdf Axil: The above paper attempts to prove that carbon nanotubes are superconductive at very high temperatures by imbedding nickel nanoparticles in the outside wall of a multi walled nanotube and detecting magnetic changes produced by superconductivity. The paper mentioned possible critical temperatures of 1000 K or more…
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