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Master list of more than 90 published papers and Dr. Mills' book publication.

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Review

Identification of New Hydrogen States - Published - R.L. Mills, J. Lotoski, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, G. Chu, Y. Lu, Phys. Essays 24, 95 (2011); doi:10.4006/1.3544207.

Review of large body of BLP's and independents' data showing conclusively that hydrogen can form more stable states called hydrinos. Specifically, hydrino transitions were observed experimentally by the predicted catalyst excitation, continuum emission, and hot H.  Similar to the case with the 21 cm (1.42 GHz) line of ordinary hydrogen, hydrino atoms were identified by its predicted 642 GHz spin-nuclear hyperfine transition observed by TeraHz absorption spectroscopy of cryogenically cooled H2 below 35K.  Hydrinos react to form molecular hydrino and hydrino hydride ions that are much more stable than the ordinary variants and have characteristic predicted energies, spectra, and NMR shifts.  Synthesized and naturally occurring molecular hydrino were observed by electron beam excited ro-vibrational spectral emission and proton NMR.  Hydrino hydride ions were observed by proton NMR and XPS.  The hydrino continua spectra directly and indirectly match significant celestial observations and the characteristics of hydrino indicate that it is the dark matter.

Theory Papers

Millsian 2.0: A Molecular Modeling Software for Structures, Charge Distributions and Energetics of Biomolecules, W. Xie, R.L. Mills, W. Good, A. Makwana, B. Holverstott, N. Hogle, Physics Essays, 24 (2011) pp. 200-212.

In this molecular modeling paper, we provide the methods and algorithms that utilize Mills classical physics atomic and molecular solutions in the molecular modeling software package called Millsian 2.0 designed for modeling the 3D structures, charge distribution, and energetics of biomolecules of pharmaceutical interest. The implementation of Millsian 2.0 was extensively tested against the available experimental data with remarkable agreement between Millsian predictions and experiments.

Total Bond Energies of Exact Classical Solutions of Molecules Generated by Millsian 1.0 Compared to Those Computed Using Modern 3-21G and 6-31G* Basis Sets - R.L. Mills, B. Holverstott, W. Good, N. Hogle, A. Makwana, Physics Essays, Vol. 23, No. 1, (2010), pp. 153-199.

Physical Solutions of the Nature of the Atom, the Photon, and Their Interactions to Form Excited and Predicted Hydrino States - R. Mills, Physics Essays, 20, (2007) 403.

The Fallacy of Feynman's Argument on the Stability of the Hydrogen Atom According to Quantum Mechanics - R.L. Mills, Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie, Vol. 30, No. 2, (2005), pp. 129-151.

Exact Classical Quantum Mechanical Solutions for One- Through Twenty-Electron Atoms- R.L. Mills, Physics Essays, Vol. 18, No. 3, September, (2005), pp. 321–361. Also see Spreadsheets.

The Nature of the Chemical Bond Revisited and an Alternative Maxwellian Approach - R.L. Mills, Physics Essays, Vol. 17, No. 3, (2004), pp. 342-389. Also see Spreadsheets.

Classical Quantum Mechanics - R. Mills, Physics Essays, Vol. 16, No. 4, (2003), pp. 433-498.

Exact Classical Quantum Mechanical Solutions for Atomic Helium Which Predicts Conjugate Parameters from a Unique Solution for the First Time - R.L. Mills, Physics Essays, Vol. 21(2), (2008), 103–141. Also see Spreadsheets.

Mills Rebuttal of Rathke Regarding Hydrinos - R.L. Mills

Phenomena Related to Hydrinos:

The Nature of Free Electrons in Superfluid Helium - a test of quantum mechanics and a basis to review its foundations and make a comparison to classical theory - R. Mills, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 26, Issue 10, October 2001, pp. 1059-1096

Process Characterization

Spectroscopy

Soft X-ray Continuum Radiation from Low-Energy Pinch Discharges of Hydrogen - R. Mills, R. Booker, J. Lotoski, Y. Lu -Under a study contracted by GEN3 Partners, spectra of high current pinch discharges in pure hydrogen and helium were recorded in the EUV region at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in an attempt to reproduce experimental results published by BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) showing predicted continuum radiation due to hydrogen in the 10–30 nm region.  Alternative explanations were considered to the claimed interpretation of the continuum radiation as being that emitted during transitions of H to lower-energy states (hydrinos).  Continuum radiation was observed at CfA in the 10–30 nm region that matched BLP’s results.  Considering the low energy of 5.2 J per pulse, the observed radiation in the energy range of about 120 eV to 40 eV, reference experiments and analysis of plasma gases, cryofiltration to remove contaminants, and spectra of the electrode metal, no conventional explanation was found in the prior or present work to be plausible including contaminants, electrode metal emission, and Bremsstrahlung, ion recombination, molecular or molecular ion band radiation, and instrument artifacts involving radicals and energetic ions reacting at the CCD and H2 re-radiation at the detector chamber.  Moreover, predicted selective extraordinarily high-kinetic energy H was observed by the corresponding Doppler broadening of the Balmer α line.

Time-Resolved Hydrino Continuum Transactions with Cutoffs at 22.8 nm and 10.1 nm, R.L. Mills, Y. Lu - Published in the European Physical Journal D, 64, (2011), pp. 65, as a highlighted article.

The temporal evolution of the continuum emission supports the mechanism of H+ e- recombination to form high-density H. This transient state permits interactions amongst H's to cause the hydrino transitions and corresponding emission.

Hydrino Continuum Transitions with Cutoffs at 22.8 nm and 10.1 nm, R. L. Mills, Y. Lu, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 35 (2010), pp. 8446-8456, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.05.098.  A published copy may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.05.098

In addition to the 91.2 nm (13.6 eV) and 22.8 nm (54.4 eV) continua due to H(1/2) and H(1/3) transitions, we report the extension of the range of q 13.6 eV continuum radiation from hydrino transitions to 10.1 nm (122.4 eV) by the observation of an additonal continuum band from the decay of the intermedicate corresponding to the hydrino state H(1/4). The continua spectra directly and indirectly match significant celestial observations. Click here for a layman PowerPoint presentation.

Spectroscopic Observation of Helium-Ion- and Hydrogen-Catalyzed Hydrino Transitions, R. L. Mills, Y. Lu, K. Akhtar, Central European Journal of Physics, August 2009, doi: 10.2478/s11534-009-0106-9. The original publication is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11534-009-0106-9

This paper is historic in that it reports direct proof that hydrogen forms hydrinos having energy states below the "ground state" using a catalyst. Thus, hydrogen can be used directly as a new energy source. Specifically, we report the experimental confirmation of four predictions for transitions of atomic hydrogen to form hydrinos: pumping of the catalyst states due to energy transfer form atomic hydrogen, extraordinary fast H due to energy transfer from a H undergoing catalysis, H continuum radiation at energies below the "ground state", and isolation and identification of lower-energy hydrogen gas by NMR. These results have profound implications theoretically, scientifically, and technologically in that they (1) confirm GUTCP in the prediction of hydrinos, (2) directly disprove atomic theories such as the Schrödinger and Dirac equations based on the definition of n=1 as the ground state, the defined state below which it is impossible to go, (3) offer resolution to many otherwise inexplicable celestial observations, and (4) directly demonstrate a new field of hydrogen chemistry and a powerful new energy source. Click here for a layman PowerPoint presentation.

Spectroscopic Study of Unique Line Broadening and Inversion in Low Pressure Microwave Generated Water Plasmas, R.L. Mills, P.C. Ray, R.M. Mayo, M. Nansteel, B. Dhandapani, J. Phillips, J. Plasma Physics, Vol. 71, No. 6, (2005), 877-888.

Emission in the Deep Vacuum Ultraviolet from a Plasma Formed by Incandescently Heating Hydrogen Gas with Trace Amounts of Potassium Carbonate, H. Conrads, R. Mills, Th. Wrubel, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 12 (2003), pp. 389-395.

Hydrogen Line Broadening

Fast H in Hydrogen Mixed Gas Microwave Plasmas When an Atomic Hydrogen Supporting Surface Was Present, R.L. Mills, K. Akhtar - Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 35, Issue 6, January 27, 2010, pp. 2546-2555, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.12.148 and may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.12.148

Tests of Features of Field-Acceleration Models for the Extraordinary Selective H Balmer alpha Broadening in Certain Hydrogen Mixed Plasmas, R.L. Mills, K. Akhtar - Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, Issue 15 (2009), 6465-6477, and may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.05.148.

Substantial Doppler Broadening of Atomic-Hydrogen Lines in DC and Capacitively Coupled RF Plasmas, K. Akhtar, J.E. Scharer, R.L. Mills, 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol. 42, Issue 13, 135207 (12pp), doi:10.1088/0022-3727/42/13/135207

Excessive Balmer a Line Broadening of Water-Vapor Capacitively-Coupled RF Discharge Plasmas, R.L. Mills, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 33, (2008), 802-815.

Evidence of Catalytic Production of Hot Hydrogen in RF Generated Hydrogen/Argon PlasmasInt. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, (2007), 3010–3035.

Evidence of An Energy Transfer Reaction Between Atomic Hydrogen and Argon II or Helium II as the Source of Excessively Hot H Atoms in Radio-Frequency Plasmas, R.L. Mills, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani, J. Plasma Physics, Vol. 72, No. 4, (2006), 469-484.

Hydrino Chemicals

Identification of New Hydrogen States - R.L. Mills, J. Lotoski, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, G. Chu, Y. Lu - Review of large body of BLP's and independents' data showing conclusively that hydrogen can form more stable states called hydrinos.

Commercializable Power Source from Forming New States of Hydrogen, R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, Y. Lu, W. Good, G. Chu, B. Dhandapani - Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, Issue 2, January 2009, pp. 573-614, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.10.018 and may be purchased at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.10.018

Spectroscopic and NMR Identification of Novel Hydride Ions in Fractional Quantum Energy States Formed by an Exothermic Reaction of Atomic Hydrogen with Certain Catalysts, R. Mills, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani, W. Good, P. Jansson, M. Nansteel, J. He and A. Voigt - 03/13/03 The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics 28, 83-104 (2004).

Excess Power and the Product Molecular Hydrino H2(1/4) Generated in a K2CO3 Electrolysis Cell - R. Mills, W. Good, J. He, Electrochimica Acta, 54 (2009), 4229-4236, doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2009.02.079. The final version of this article with full bibliographic details may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2009.02.079

Power

Thermally Reversible Hydrino Catalyst Systems as a New Power Source, Published- R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, J. Lotoski, G. Chu, Int. J. Green Energy, 8 (2011), 429–473 - Using absolute water-flow calorimetry, the energy balance for representative power and regeneration reactions of four classes of hydrino catalyst systems was determined wherein the formation of hydrinos has 200 times the energy release relative to combustion. The thermal cycle of reactants to products thermally reversed to reactants in a closed system is energy neutral, and the thermal losses (~3%) and energy to replace hydrogen converted to hydrinos (2%) are small compared to the large energy released in forming hydrinos. Typical parameters measured by absolute water-flow calorimetry were 2-5 times energy gain relative to regeneration chemistry and 7 W cm-3. The predicted molecular hydrino and hydrino hydride products H2(1/4) and H-(1/4) corresponding to 50 MJ/mole H2 consumed were confirmed by the solution 1H NMR peak at 1.2 ppm and XPS peak at 11 eV, respectively. The results indicate that continuous generation of power liberated by forming hydrinos is commercially feasible using simplistic and efficient systems that concurrently maintain regeneration as part of the thermal energy balance. The published paper is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15435075.2011.576287.

Commercializable Power Source Using Heterogeneous Hydrino Catalysts, R.L. Mills, K. Akhtar, G. Zhao, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Chu, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 35, Issue 2, January 9, 2010, pp. 395-419, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.038 and may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.038

Commercializable Power Source from Forming New States of Hydrogen, R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, Y. Lu, W. Good, G. Chu, B. Dhandapani - Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, Issue 2, January 2009, pp. 573-614, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.10.018 and may be purchased at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.10.018

Applications

Engineering

Design for a BlackLight Power Multi-Cell Thermally Coupled Reactor Based on Hydrogen Catalyst Systems, Published - Mills, G. Zhao, W. Good, M. Nansteel, International Journal of Energy Research, Article first published online: 15 MAR 2011; DOI: 10.1002/er.1834.

The design and cost estimates compared to other systems of an energy hydrino producing reactor system wherein heat from hydrino reactions within individual cells provide both the reactor power and the heat for regeneration of the reactants. These processes occur continuously over a plurality of cells in different phases of the processes. The hydrino reactions are maintained and regenerated in a batch mode using thermally-coupled multi-cells arranged in bundles wherein cells in the power-production phase of the cycle heat cells in the regeneration phase.  Conservatively, assuming a conversion efficiency of 25%, the total cost with the addition of the boiler and chemical components is estimated at $1,380 per kW electric.  The system applications for distributed power (1 to 10 MW electric) and central generation retrofit and green-field projects are projected to be very competitive relative to existing power sources and systems.

Continuous Hydrino Thermal Power System, R. L. Mills, G. Zhao, W. Good, Applied Energy, Vol. 88, (2011) 789-798.

The hydrino reactions are maintained and regenerated continuously in each cell wherein heat from the power production phase of a thermally reversible cycle provides the energy for regeneration of the initial reactants from the products.  Since the reactants undergo both modes simultaneously in each cell, the thermal power output from each cell is constant.  Conservatively, assuming a conversion efficiency of 25% the total cost with the addition of the boiler and chemical components is estimated at $1064 per kW electric.  The specifics of a reaction system design are presented.

Lighting

Excessively Bright Hydrogen-Strontium Discharge Light Source Due to Energy Resonance of Strontium with Hydrogen, R. Mills, M. Nansteel, P. Ray - 08/09/01 Journal of Plasma Physics, Vol. 69, (2003), pp. 131-158

Argon-Hydrogen-Strontium Discharge Light Source, R. Mills and M. Nansteel, P. Ray, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 30, No. 2, (2002), pp. 639-653.

Low-Voltage EUV and Visible Light Source Due to Catalysis of Atomic Hydrogen

Diamond Films

Role of Atomic Hydrogen Density and Energy in Low Power Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Diamond Films, R. Mills, J. Sankar, A. Voigt, J. He, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 478, Issues 1-2, May 2005, pp. 77-90.

Hydrino-Terminated Surfaces

Highly Stable Amorphous Silicon Hydride, R. L. Mills, B. Dhandapani, J. He, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, Vol. 80, (2003), pp. 1-20.

Lasers

CW HI Laser Based on a Stationary Inverted Lyman Population Formed from Incandescently Heated Hydrogen Gas with Certain Group I Catalysts, R. Mills, P. Ray, R.M. Mayo, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 31, No. 2, (2003), pp. 236-247.

Stationary Inverted Lyman Population Formed from Incandescently Heated Hydrogen Gas with Certain Catalysts, R.L. Mills, P. Ray, J. Phys. D, Applied Physics, Vol. 36, (2003), pp. 1504-1509.

Potential for a Hydrogen Water-Plasma Laser R. L. Mills, P. C. Ray, R. M. Mayo, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 82, No. 11 (2003).

 

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