About
The International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ISCMNS) was founded over 20 years ago, mainly on the initiative of the late Dr. Bill Collis. The ISCMNS was founded to promote and support the field of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
The society publishes the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (JCMNS), hosts the International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen and Deuterium Loaded Metals (IWAHLM), and undertakes a supporting role in the organisation of the International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF). In addition, the society awards the Minoru Toyoda Gold Medal, the Giuliano Preparata Medal, and the Bronze Medal for excellence in cold fusion research.
We are proudly mutually affiliated with our sister societies, the Société Française de la Science Nucléaire dans la Matière Condensée (SFSNMC) and the Japanese Cold Fusion Research Society (JCF).
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For a brief introduction to the field, view the 60 Minutes Special on LENR research. To learn more about the science of LENR, please browse the introductory resources available below.
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Dr. Yasuhiro Iwamura, a member of the society’s Scientific Committee, presents at ICCF-21
Who Studies CMNS?
Groups at a number of universities and institutions around the world
actively sponsor and study condensed matter nuclear science.
Some of these include:
Research Spotlight
CleanHME
In this presentation, filmed at the University of Szczecin in Poland, Dr. Konrad Czerski and his group discuss their work as part of CleanHME, a multi laboratory program funded under the EU's Horizon2020 framework program. Czerski's group is focussed on studying D+D reactions in accelerator experiments using metal targets at low energies.
Introductory Lecture
Dr. Florian Metzler
”Solid-State Fusion as an Emerging Field: Past & Present”
Dr. Florian Metzler, ICCF-25, 2023
In this lecture, Dr. Florian Metzler of MIT reviews the history of low energy nuclear reactions, discusses key experimental observations, and advances an understanding of LENR as a coherent quantum process. Metzler reflects on the history of semiconductor development, and offers parallels between the current state of LENR research and the early history of semiconductors.
“[...] one cannot ignore the evidence accumulated in many laboratories—of excess heat production, of tritium production—all of which is characterized by irreproducibility and by uncontrollable emission in bursts. But, from what has just been said, that kind of behavior is expected; it is not a basis for rejecting the reality of the phenomena. [...] If, as I hypothesized, the lattice is a basic part of that mechanism, some knowledge of the palladium lattice, loaded with deuterium, is needed. [...] Unlike the near-vacuum of hot fusion, the ambient environment of cold fusion is the lattice, which is a dynamical system capable of storing and exchanging energy.”
“[...] there is now undoubtedly overwhelming indications that nuclear processes take place in the metal alloys. [...] I consider it absolutely necessary that these phenomena are systematically researched and the conditions for their reproducibility cleared up. That a nuclear reaction can be stimulated by interaction with a solid lattice and made to take another path from that which it would take in the plasma, is an entirely unexpected discovery with possibly wide-ranging consequences. It demands confirmation and further experimental evaluation.”