Sergio Focardi

Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.

[1][2][3] He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics[4][5] and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.

[10] From 2007 until his death, Focardi collaborated with inventor Andrea Rossi on the development of the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).

[11][12][13][14] In the early 90s Sergio Focardi, together with physicists Roberto Habel and Francesco Piantelli, started to develop a nickel-hydrogen exothermal reactor.

The results of their research were presented in 1994,[16][17] and published on the peer-reviewed scientific journal Il Nuovo Cimento A.