Mizuno called me yesterday with a few more details about the
presentations at the ACS conference.
The paper by Kitamura (which I believe was presented by Takahashi)
described a replication of Arata's older technique with the double
structured cathode (DS cathode) and Pd-black. The Pd black produced
heat but it also sintered, and then the performance degraded. This is
the same problem Arata experienced.
(I am a little disappointed to hear this was a replication of the
older technique. The newer zirconium material was designed partly to
avoid sintering.)
Mizuno gave his own presentation at 3:35 PM in the afternoon, which
was 20 years to the day, hour and minute after Fleischmann and Pons'
original announcement, in the same city. It gave him an eerie sensation.
- Jed
- [Vo]:A few more notes from Mizuno Jed Rothwell
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