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Energy Localization
The key to Understanding Energy in Nanotechnology & Nature
Nature assembles ordered structures out of chaos without a temperature gradient or energy
input.
Systems generally go from ordered to chaotic.
How does nature go from the chaotic to ordered?
Atoms in most solids vibrate at high frequency and low amplitude
Atoms’ nuclei generally reside in parabolic potential wells.
The nuclei undergo simple harmonic motion as if they were connected by springs.
Some Materials have non-parabolic potential wells
They produce nonlinear vibrational modes
Large Amplitude, Low Frequency Vibrational modes
superconductors have very large amplitude vibrational modes
Levitating magnet
Ideal Springs obey Hooke’s Law F= -k1X
M1 M2 Mn
Equipartition of Energy
Every mass has the same vibrational energy
Enrico Fermi, 1954 Los Alamos MAINIAC I
Non ideal Springs• F = -k1X + k2X2
• Energy is not equally Shared
• Energy is Localized
Vibrationally cold
Fermi & Ulam found that Energy is Localized when there is:
1. A countable number of elements
2. Nonlinear coupling between the elements
Energy Localized vibrational modes are so large that they can break and reform bonds.
Locally, the vibrations act like very hot regions with active chemistry.
Nanoparticles in the 3 - 12 nm size regime have both properties:
1. A countable number of atoms
A large fraction of the atoms are near the surface and reside in shallow, non-
parabolic potential wells
2. Nonlinear Coupling
Energy localization at the nanoscale circumvents the 2nd
Law of Thermodynamics
Nature evolved to take advantage of these energy exchange mechanisms available only at this size scale.
Ordered structures can be assembled from Chaos
Light EmittersSolar Cells
Enzyme operational control
Nanomagnetism
Energy Localization Controls the Efficiency
Critical features for any nanodevice should be processed in the 3 - 12nm size regime.
Yashiaki Arata 2006
Japan’s most decorated scientist
Order of Cultural Merit
Deuterium gas added to
5-10nm palladium powders
spontaneously produces heat via nuclear reactions.
George Miley
No energy input is required.
Limitless clean energy is now a realistic possibility.
Takahashi reported no excess heat with 20-100nm powder
Energy Localization was explained
PdD - PdH is a superconductor
H /D in palladium is anharmonic
Hydrogen in nano Pd is chaotic
Kitamura and Takahashi succeed at 5-10nm
Rossi and Piantelli
• Both describe nanoscale nickel particles with hydrogen to produce heat
• Piantelli says the nickel must be free of any NiO coating and the feature size must be below 70nm
• Rossi & Piantelli report self sustained operation• George Miley reported similar action last week
Nano-magnetism
• Ferromagnetism is a cooperative phenomenon• Ferrites processed at 3 – 12nm have cooperative
oscillations• Magnetic vortices arise at that dimension
• Vortex interactions extract energy via energy localization
• Ferrites run cold as a result• Energy source is undetermined