Cold Fusion: Advances in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science provides a concise description of the existing technological approaches in cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction engineering. It handles the chemistry, physics, materials, and various processes involved in cold fusion, and provides a critical analysis of obtained theoretical and experimental results. The book has a very international appeal with the editor from France and an international pool of chapter authors from academia and industry. This book is an indispensable resource for researchers in academia and industry connected with combustion processes and synthesis all over the world.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of nuclear solid state physics with synchrotron radiation, a technique that is finding a number of unique applications in fields such as magnetism, surface science, and lattice dynamics. Due to the remarkable brilliance of modern synchrotron radiation sources, the method is particularly suited for the study of thin films, nanoparticles and clusters. Its high isotopic specificity can be employed to measure magnetic or vibrational properties with very high spatial resolution. The book is written on an introductory level and is thus suited for newcomers to the field. Many examples are presented to illustrate the unique experimental possibilities.

The International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science is held annually on a different continent every time. This volume documents the proceedings of the 11th conference held in Marseilles, France. It includes articles that indicate the current position of the condensed matter nuclear science field. With an extensive collection of articles, this volume is indispensable since very few papers related to this field are published in scientific journals. Contents: Reproducibility, Controllability and Optimization of LENR Experiments (D J Nagel); Superwave Reality (I Dardik); Generation of Heat and Products During Plasma Electrolysis (T Mizuno et al.); Electron Screening Constraints for the Cold Fusion (K Czerski et al.); Low Mass 1.6 MHz Sonofusion Reactor (R Stringham); Evidence of Microscopic Ball Lightning in Cold Fusion Experiments (E H Lewis); Co-Deposition of Palladium with Hydrogen Isotopes (J Dash & A Ambadkar); Possible Nuclear Transmutation of Nitrogen in the Earth''s Atmosphere (M Fukuhara); Theoretical Model of the Probability of Fusion Between Deuterons within Deformed Lattices with Microcracks at Room Temperature (F Fulvio); Effective Interaction Potential in the Deuterium Plasma and Multiple Resonance Scattering (T Toimela); Theoretical Study of Nuclear Reactions Induced by Bose-Einstein Condensation in Pd (K-I Tsuchiya & H Okumura); Phonon-Exchange Models: Some New Results (P L Hagelstein); Cold Fusion Phenomenon and Solid State Nuclear Physics (H Kozima); Effects of Atomic Electrons on Nuclear Stability and Radioactive Decay (D V Filippov et al.); Recent Cold Fusion Claims: Are They Valid (L Kowalski); and other papers. Readership: Academics and researchers in nuclear physics.

The investigation of the properties of condensed matter using experimental nuclear methods is becoming increasingly important. An extremely broad range of techniques is used, including the use of particles, such as positrons and neutrons, ion beams, and the detection of radiation from nuclear decays or nuclear reactions. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics: Nuclear Methods and Applications is the only book to provide a comprehensive coverage of the nuclear methods used to study the properties of condensed matter. It covers all the key techniques, including the Mossbauer effect, perturbed angular correlation, muon spin rotation, neutron scattering, positron annihilation, nuclear magnetic resonance and ion beam analysis. Numerous examples are given throughout the text to illustrate how each of the experimental methods is used in modern condensed matter physics, and practical details concerning instrumentation are included to help the reader apply each method. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics: Nuclear Methods and Applications is an invaluable textbook for graduate students of condensed matter physics and chemistry, and is of great interest to those studying materials science and applied nuclear physics. It is also a key reference source for more experienced researchers in these and related fields, including nuclear and condensed matter physicists and solid state and inorganic chemists.

Recent progress in the emerging field of condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) is presented as a combination of basic nuclear science, energy, nanomaterials science, electro-chemistry and nuclear physics.Key and selected papers from an important conference in this exciting area provide the latest advances in CMNS studies. Current results from cold fusion and condensed matter nuclear science are included.

Broken up in to three sections, The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon gives a unified explanation of all the significant data on the Cold Fusion Phenomena to date. It presents a history of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon (CFP), gives the fundamental experimental results of the CFP and presents a quantum mechanical treatment of physical problems associated with cold fusion. - Overviews the abundance of research and investigation that followed the 'cold fusion scandal' in 1989 - Explores the fundamental science behind the original Fleischmann experiment

Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter, based on symmetries and conservation laws. It explores the role of spatial dimensionality and microscopic interactions in determining the nature of phase transitions, as well as discussing the structure and properties of materials with different symmetries. Particular attention is given to critical phenomena and renormalization group methods. The properties of liquids, liquid crystals, quasicrystals, crystalline solids, magnetically ordered systems and amorphous solids are investigated in terms of their symmetry, generalised rigidity, hydrodynamics and topological defect structure. In addition to serving as a course text, this book is an essential reference for students and researchers in physics, applied physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, who are interested in modern condensed matter physics.