Thanks to Ahlfors for posting the (I assume recently available online) website of one of the ARPA-e funded projects, the one that is a collaboration between UC Berkeley and UC Davis.
FS & IBT - Low energy nuclear reaction
The project will focus on quantifying nuclear reactions, such as the deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction at relatively low reaction energies, below 500 eV. At…
ibt.lbl.gov
I post it here to highlight that one of the aspects they state will be explored is “In our project we will combine an electro-chemical cell with ion beams for deuterium loading and defect engineering of palladium.”be which is the topic that interests us in this thread. Its interesting they are attempting to engineer the cracks on the Pd lattice as one of the aspects of their research.