I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

When the paper was finally publiMartin Fleischmannd both electrochemists and physicists called it "sloppy" and "uninformative" and it was said that had Fleischmann and Pons waited for the publication of their paper most of the trouble would have been avoided because scientists would not have gone so far in trying to test their work. Early life
Born in Karlovy Vary Czechoslovakia in 1927. doi:10.

Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons regarding excess heat in heavy water led to their names being identified with the frenzy controversy and backlash that followed although they continued their interest and research in cold fusion.