In detail, what the NASA patent is getting at. The NASA patent is so generally worded it does not say much. What are the details behind these general words?
I have postulated that charge separation is the root cause of LENR. In advance of this concept, metallic nanoparticles have emerged as fundamental structures due to the tunability of their plasmonic resonances and ability to enhance electromagnetic fields. When two metallic nanoparticles are placed close to each other, forming a dimer, new plasmonic modes is formed, which are interpreted as the hybridization of the plasmonic resonances of the individual nanoparticles. This condition exists in the nano-hairs of the micro-particles used by Rossi and DGT. For these non-touching nano-hair dimers, the optical response is mainly governed by the Bonding Dimer Plasmon (BDP) resonance, arising from the coupling of the dipolar modes of the individual particles. This mode presents strong charge densities of opposite sign at both sides of the inter-particle cavity that exists in the space between the nano-hairs, producing enormously enhanced local electromagnetic fields. These nano-hairs draw energy from the resonant black body heat radiation emitted from the bulk of their constituent micro-particle. For touching particles or, when a thin conductive path is opened between the nanoparticles, a new Charge Transfer Plasmon (CTP) mode is excited, in which the whole dimer acts as a dipolar plasmon mode, so that in the oscillations both particles present net charges of opposite sign. These nano-hairs can form a Bose-Einstein Condensate with a common wave function (PSI) when aggregated into an arbitrarily large ensemble. This charge coherence greatly amplifies the effectiveness of charge separation as a mechanism for lowering the coulomb barrier of atoms just below the root of the nano-hairs as a manifestation of negative dielectric permittivity. The surface charge density oscillations associated with surface plasmons at the interface between a metal nano-hair and a dielectric(hydrogen) can give rise to strongly enhanced EMF fields which are spatially confined to the interface. Similarly, if the electron gas is confined in three dimensions, as in the case of a small subwavelength particle, the overall displacement of the electrons with respect to the positively charged lattice leads to a restoring force which in turn gives rise to specific particle plasmon resonances depending on the geometry of the particle. In particles such as nano-hairs of suitable (usually pointed) shape, extreme local charge accumulations can occur that are accompanied by strongly enhanced EMF. Because these quasiparticles are almost massless, their condensate can develop and persist at extremely high temperatures. This mechanism is behind the effectiveness of properly prepared nano-materials acting on the surface of metals as an enabling causation of LENR at least in the Rossi type reactor design. Cheers: Axil
