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Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Faxiang Bu
Wuhan University
2
Devin Wood
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States)
3
Xinyu Ma
Beijing Institute of Technology
4
Ruiling Qu
Sichuan University
5
A. Lees
University of Rochester
6
E. J. Kolmes
Princeton University
7
Jason B. King
University of California, Irvine
8
Lu Tan
First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University
9
Marçal Capdevila-Cortada
Unknown
10
Nicholas C. Rubin
Google (United States)

Rising Stars Papers

1
Electrocatalytic reductive deuteration of arenes and heteroarenes
Nature|2024
131 cit.
2
Effect of hydrogen concentration, initial pressure and temperature on mechanisms of hydrogen explosion in confined spaces
Combustion and Flame|2024
58 cit.
3
Mechanical‐Force‐Induced Non‐spontaneous Dehalogenative Deuteration of Aromatic Iodides Enabled by Using Piezoelectric Materials as a Redox Catalyst
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2024
44 cit.
4
Electrocatalytic Alkene Hydrogenation/Deuteration
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2025
42 cit.
5
Rapid Initial-State Preparation for the Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Molecules
PRX Quantum|2025
28 cit.
6
Quantum computation of stopping power for inertial fusion target design
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
24 cit.
7
Investigation on explosion characteristics of hydrogen-air mixtures diluted with inert gases in confined spaces
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy|2024
20 cit.
8
Tailored and Externally Corrected Coupled Cluster with Quantum Inputs
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation|2024
12 cit.
9
Electric Field‐Induced Fast Li‐Ion Channels in Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for All‐Solid‐State Batteries
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2025
11 cit.
10
Massive, long-lived electrostatic potentials in a rotating mirror plasma
Nature Communications|2024
10 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
C. V. Young
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2
B. Bounthong
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3
Carl E. Sandifer
Glenn Research Center
4
Mohammad Jafari F.
Payame Noor University
5
Jin Xie
China Pharmaceutical University
6
Weipeng Li
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
7
Héléna Cassol
University of Liège
8
Song Lin
Cornell University
9
I. A. Zlatskiy
A.V. Dumansky Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry
10
Jan Kirchhoff
Reva Medical (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Electrochemically driven cross-electrophile coupling of alkyl halides
Nature|2022
309 cit.
2
Electrochemical reactor dictates site selectivity in N-heteroarene carboxylations
Nature|2023
294 cit.
3
Experimental achievement and signatures of ignition at the National Ignition Facility
Physical review. E|2022
190 cit.
4
Exploring Electrochemical C(sp <sup>3</sup> )–H Oxidation for the Late-Stage Methylation of Complex Molecules
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2022
145 cit.
5
Intercepting Hydrogen Evolution with Hydrogen-Atom Transfer: Electron-Initiated Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2022
138 cit.
6
Highly selective synthesis of all-carbon tetrasubstituted alkenes by deoxygenative alkenylation of carboxylic acids
Nature Communications|2022
134 cit.
7
Photoinduced gold-catalyzed divergent dechloroalkylation of gem-dichloroalkanes
Nature Catalysis|2022
120 cit.
8
Regioselective aliphatic C–H functionalization using frustrated radical pairs
Nature|2023
120 cit.
9
Generality-oriented optimization of enantioselective aminoxyl radical catalysis
Science|2023
88 cit.
10
Decarboxylative tandem C-N coupling with nitroarenes via SH2 mechanism
Nature Communications|2022
84 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Wheeler
University of Liverpool
2
G. B. Zimmerman
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3
Stanley Pons
University of Utah
4
Johann Rafelski
University of Arizona
5
Nobuyuki Ōkuma
Kyushu Institute of Technology
6
O. A. Hurricane
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7
Ji Feng
Peking University
8
N. W. Ashcroft
Florida State University
9
Walter Greiner
Gemeente Den Haag
10
John Rasmussen
Aalborg University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
<i>The Fractal Geometry of Nature</i>
American Journal of Physics|1983
21.9k cit.
2
Stability of a Schwarzschild Singularity
Physical Review|1957
2.7k cit.
3
Valley-selective circular dichroism of monolayer molybdenum disulphide
Nature Communications|2012
2.6k cit.
4
Vegard’s law
Physical Review A|1991
2.5k cit.
5
Nuclear Constitution and the Interpretation of Fission Phenomena
Physical Review|1953
2.2k cit.
6
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
Physical Review|1939
2k cit.
7
Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications
Nature|1972
1.9k cit.
8
Relativistic hadron-hadron collisions in the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model
Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics|1999
1.7k cit.
9
Metallic Hydrogen: A High-Temperature Superconductor?
Physical Review Letters|1968
1.4k cit.
10
Hydrogen Dominant Metallic Alloys: High Temperature Superconductors?
Physical Review Letters|2004
1.3k cit.

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