Expedited Award for Novel Research: Selective Adsorption of Heavy Water on Palladium-Coated Active Carbon: Testing for Possible Cold-Fusion Phenomena

研究者对重水吸附分离的早期工作导致了异常的结果，包括重水的选择性常数，这是无法用已知的物理或化学吸附过程来解释的。根据可能观察到的冷聚变的报告，研究人员将重复先前的实验，寻找核过程的证据来解释结果。在这个奖项颁发的时候，关于冷聚变的报道是非常有争议的；然而，这种可能性仍然不能排除。因此，这个项目既代表了一种证实冷聚变可能性的创新尝试，也代表了一种可能的替代途径，如果它是真的的话。

Earlier work by the investigator on the adsorptive separation of heavy water lead to anomalous results, including selectivity constants for heavy water which are unexplainable by known physical or chemical adsorption processes. Based on reports of possible observations of cold fusion, the investigator will repeat the earlier experiments looking for evidence of a nuclear process to explain the results. At the time of this award, reports of cold fusion are highly controversial; the possibility still cannot be ruled-out, however. This project represents, then, both an innovative attempt to confirm the possibility of cold fusion and a possible alternate route to exploiting it if it is real.