http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04461
or http://www.kurzweilai.net/mystery-material-stuns-scientists?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter <http://www.kurzweilai.net/mystery-material-stuns-scientists?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8648acff91-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-8648acff91-282029005> &utm_campaign=8648acff91-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-8648acff91-282029005 This remarkable paper was mentioned on Peter’s blog – but he apparently did not care to expound on the full implications of it (or else he is waiting to see who will take the bait J … since it is strongly suggestive of Mills’ theory. UV luminescence is extremely rare, mainly because UV radiation is ionizing and much stronger than visible light, and yes - its appearance could be indicative of energy gain – which is ultimately due to hydrogen densification. In this paper a mysterious UV emission is accidentally seen when water vapor is spontaneously dissociated, and hydrogen absorbed via chemisorption from a crystal surface which notable is composed of 4 Mills’ catalysts – strontium, titanium, lanthanum and oxygen (LaAlO3/SrTiO3). Abstract of “Surface Chemically Switchable Ultraviolet Luminescence from Interfacial Two-Dimensional Electron Gas.” We report intense, narrow line-width, surface chemisorption-activated and reversible ultraviolet (UV) photoluminescence from radiative recombination of the two-dimensional electron gas with photoexcited holes at LaAlO3/SrTiO3. The switchable luminescence arises from an electron transfer-driven modification of the electronic structure via H-chemisorption onto the AlO2-terminated surface of LaAlO3, at least 2 nm away from the interface. The control of the onset of emission and its intensity are functionalities that go beyond the luminescence of compound semiconductor quantum wells. Connections between reversible chemisorption, fast electron transfer, and quantum-well luminescence suggest a new model for surface chemically reconfigurable solid-state UV optoelectronics and molecular sensing. Reference: Mohammad A. Islam, Diomedes Saldana-Greco, Zongquan Gu, Fenggong Wang, Eric Breckenfeld, Qingyu Lei, Ruijuan Xu, Christopher J. Hawley, X. X. Xi, Lane W. Martin, Andrew M. Rappe, Jonathan E. Spanier. Surface Chemically Switchable Ultraviolet Luminescence from Interfacial Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. Nano Letters, 2015; DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04461 Side note: since we also have aluminum oxide appearing in a situation where there is apparent overunity due to contact with hydrogen (as in the “glow tube” reactor) there is a further implication that tightly bound oxygen in a ceramic, which can be a Mills catalyst in the rare condition that it loses two electrons, can temporarily separate from aluminum on a very short-term basis in order to create the Mills catalytic “hole”.
