Mike Carrell wrote: > > Arata cathodes were used by Mike McKubre at SRI a few years ago. My > understanding is that McKubre attempted to fabricate the cathodes himself > [in SRI's facilities] without success. It is no accident that Arata's > colleague was head of the metallurgy department at the university. Palladium > is notoriously difficult to machine and weld. Making bigger cathodes is > interesting, and the technique of fabrication could probably be mastered. > Note that fundamentally it is a technique of gas loading of extremely > fractured particulate surfaces. The particles are only a few hundred atoms > in any dimension. > Might be best to explode Pd wires in D2, or in high purity D2O like these folks did in H2O to get Silver nanoparticles:
The method: http://www.ias.ac.in/chemsci/Pdf-OctDec2003/Pc3336.pdf And the results: http://www.ias.ac.in/pramana/v65/p815/abs.htm Fred > > Mike Carrell >
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