Mosier-Boss worked on strategies to understand nuclear effects and near-surface interactions. She joined the
United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she secured more patents than any woman in the history of the lab. She was based in the
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, where she developed battery systems, piezoelectric ceramics and phages. The co-deposition process involved the simultaneous deposition of deuterium and palladium from electrolytes that contain palladium salts dissolved in heavy water. The films must be deposited on a substrate that does not absorb hydrogen (e.g. gold) at high negative potentials. She worked on
CR-39 as a nuclear track detector, which works by monitoring the ionization trails left after the atoms of CR-39 recoil in response to high energy neutrons. a transmutation occurs, which changes the surface morphology of the Pd/D films. In 2013, Mosier-Boss was awarded the Infinite Energy Preparata Medal in recognition of her work on cold fusion. == Selected publications ==