Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion
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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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- Authors
- Berlinguette, C. P., Chiang, Y.-M., Munday, J. N., Schenkel, T., Fork, D. K., Koningstein, R., & Trevithick, M. D.
- Affiliations
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Google (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Berlinguette, Curtis P.
- Trevithick, Matthew D.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2019-05-27
- Volume
- 570
- Issue
- 7759
- Pages
- 45-51
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2945763457
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9
- FWCI
- 1.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Muon and positron interactions and applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Hydrogen Storage and Materials
- Keywords
- cold fusion, reproducibility, scientific skepticism, clean energy, parameter space exploration
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