With Pd I can just heat it up. But you have to have room for convection. The main reason I went with metal into pores is that I had health problems with the nano nickel. (some people-me now- are allergic to nickel and I had lung reactions- the really fine stuff, few nm stay suspended in air for some time and leak through valves, mess up vacuum pumps,...) In some systems I use electrical stimulation, or RF. I also use Sm Co powders to supply the B fields. Empirically, it seems that the XP goes linear with B, mass and exponentially with Energy of vacancy formation and temperature. Pd seems to work at lower temps than Ni work. (lower Ef). By dropping the Ef by alloying you can overcome some of the high temp requirements. Perhaps not good for commercial use but better for what I have to work with.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:16:56 +0200 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hot nanoparticles stick together. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Dr. Cravens, what is the trigger mechanism you apply to your reactor(s)? (High) voltage, like Defkalion?By applying carbon materials I presume nano/micro pieze/thermalelectric materials are out of scope? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:42 PM, DJ Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: yes, zirc oxide works- I am well aware of that - notice my patent using that: http://www.google.com/patents/US8303865 with Pd and Ni sub 1 micron in size. However, I like my carbon based material better. I can throw more current through it and it makes the size of metal particles right about where I want them (normally 9 nm for mesopore C). D2 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:48:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hot nanoparticles stick together. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] DJ Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: yes, they not only stick together, but they usually melt together when I try to use them. That is why Arata put them in a structure of non-reacting Zr. To hold the particles apart, you might say. Takahashi says they are not melting. Hydrogen reactions are causing them to glom together. I wouldn't know, but that is what he says. He points out that the temperature is sometimes lower with an active cold fusion run than with a control run. Yes, but I wonder if the local temperature in the nanopowder is not higher. - Jed
