Perhaps it could be more than just housing the nanoparticles because of the very strong electrostatic field created within the zeolite cavities and the oscillation of the cavity.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j100558a022 http://youtu.be/2L-lKozWjSA On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a chemist, but have some familiarity with materials science. You > can take this with an appropriate grain-of-salt. > > Zirconia would not, itself, be a catalyst. I specifically mentioned > zirconium - the metal. Nano-Zr could be a catalyst that would have a high > sintering temperature as a nano material because it melts at such a high > temperature (1855C) in bulk that its sintering and melting temperature at > nano scale would be high (sintering probably near 600-700C and melting at > 900-1000C). > > Most catalysts are not fully oxidized metal oxides - they are partially > reduced metal oxides. The best catalysts have nano-scale features and > partial oxidation. These catalysts are usually (but not always) formed as > fully oxidized metal features and subsequently processed to partly reduce > the metal oxides. Reduction of small particles actually sharpens their > features. The partial reduction sets up electrochemical behavior at the > catalyst site that makes it active. Partly oxidized metals will not > readily sinter - or at least not until much higher temperature. > > In the case of zeolites, I understand that the zeolite material is not > LENR active itself. Zeolites have porous micro-scale gas permeable cells > which are used to "house" nano-scale activated materials inside the cell. > The zeolite cell prevents the nanoparticles housed inside adjacent cells > from sintering at temperatures above where the nano-particles themselves > would have sintered. Zeolite encapsulated LENR powder can be nano-scale > and still operate at a temperature that would otherwise sinter powders of > that scale. I don't think the zeolite itself otherwise contributes to the > LENR. > > I would be happy to have someone with greater chemical background > straighten me out if these understandings are wrong. > > Bob Higgins > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Miley's zirconia reactor came to mind since Bob mentioned zirconia at the >>> same time I was writing a piece on perovskites. >> >> >> Does anyone know where George Miley's recent engine project is at? I >> noticed a patent in the article which I had not seen before [1]: >> >> Techniques to form dislocation cores along an interface of a multilayer >>> thin film structure are described. The loading and/or deloading of isotopes >>> of hydrogen are also described in association with core formation. The >>> described techniques can provide be applied to superconductive structure >>> formation, x-ray and charged particle generation, nuclear reaction >>> processes, and/or inertial confinement fusion targets. >> >> >> In the LENR device describe in the original article (which may or may not >> be related to this patent), the substrate ("fuel") is zirconium dioxide, a >> high-k dielectric. What I like about dielectrics is that I suspect they >> provide a good basis for arcing at the microscopic level. The same >> consideration applies to zeolites. >> >> Eric >> >> >> [1] >> http://www.google.com/patents/US8227020?dq=%22Low+Energy+Nuclear+Reaction%22&ei=qEROUKH4JsjSrQHKmIGoBw#v=onepage&q&f=false >> >> >
