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1. 01 · pubmed0.784

   Hydrophilic materials immersed in aqueous solutions show near-surface zones that exclude suspended colloids and dissolved molecules. These exclusion zones (EZs) can extend for tens to hundreds of micrometers from hydrophilic surfaces and show physicochemical properties that differ from bulk water. Here we report that exposure of standard aqueous microsphere suspensions to static magnetic fields creates similar microsphere-free zones adjacent to magnetic poles. The EZs build next to both north and south poles; and they build whether the microspheres are of polystyrene or carboxylate composition…

   pubmed/PMID-35622780-magnetic-fields-induce-exclusion-zones-in-water/info.md

2. 02 · pubmed0.761

   Particles and solutes are excluded from the vicinity of hydrophilic surfaces, leaving large microsphere-free regions known as exclusion zones (EZs). Prior work had indicated that EZs could extend to distances of up to several hundred micrometers from the nucleating surface. These observations were made on large, extended surfaces, leaving open the question whether EZ size might depend on the characteristic dimension of the excluding surface. We placed one or few ion-exchange-resin beads whose diameters varied from 15 μm to 300 μm in cuvettes. The beads were suffused with aqueous microsphere su…

   pubmed/PMID-22389653-effect-of-particle-diameter-on-exclusion-zone-size/info.md

3. 03 · pubmed0.757

   - **PMID**: 35622780 - **DOI**: 10.3109/15368379509022550 - **PMCID**: PMC6494972 (full-text saved) - **Journal**: PloS one · **Year**: 2022 - **Authors**: Valery Shalatonin, Gerald H Pollack - **MeSH**: Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, Magnetic Fields, Microspheres, Polystyrenes, Water - **URL**: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35622780/ - **Captured**: 2026-05-10T10:40:41

   pubmed/PMID-35622780-magnetic-fields-induce-exclusion-zones-in-water/info.md

4. 04 · pubmed0.756

   Many hydrophilic materials in aqueous solution show near-surface zones that exclude suspended colloids and dissolved molecules. These exclusion zones (EZs) can extend for tens to hundreds of micrometers from the hydrophilic surface, and show physicochemical properties that differ from bulk water. So far, only continuous surfaces of polymers, gels, or biological specimens have been studied. In this report, we explore the interactions between exclusion zones generated by discontinuous, regularly spaced EZ-generating surfaces, namely strips of Nafion on a glass surface. Various inter-strip spacin…

   pubmed/PMID-24826197-exclusion-zone-formation-from-discontinuous-nafion-surfaces/info.md

5. 05 · pubmed0.754

   It is generally thought that the impact of surfaces on the contiguous aqueous phase extends to a distance of no more than a few water-molecule layers. Older studies, on the other hand, suggest a more extensive impact. We report here that colloidal and molecular solutes suspended in aqueous solution are profoundly and extensively excluded from the vicinity of various hydrophilic surfaces. The width of the solute-free zone is typically several hundred microns. Such large exclusion zones were observed in the vicinity of many types of surface including artificial and natural hydrogels, biological …

   pubmed/PMID-16952332-surfaces-and-interfacial-water-evidence-that-hydrophilic-sur/info.md

6. 06 · yt0.753

   And most physical chemists will agree to some extent. Uh, they'll agree that you've got maybe one or two ordered ordered molecular layers and then nothing more. And Gilbert Ling was saying, "No, no, that's not true. The evidence is that the ordering of water molecules can extend way out uh, to dozens or even hundreds of molecular layers from the surface." And we thought this was really important and we wanted to pursue it experimentally. So, uh, how do you pursue it? You know, it's not easy to see water molecules. And and the way we we did it was we we understood that this kind of ordered wate…

   yt/NnRMRGsAHfA-gerald-pollack-the-fourth-phase-of-water-snc-2018/transcript.txt

7. 07 · pubmed0.748

   Aqueous suspensions of microspheres were infused around gels of varying composition. The solutes were excluded from zones on the order of 100 microm from the gel surface. We present evidence that this finding is not an artifact, and that solute-repulsion forces exist at distances far greater than conventional theory predicts. The observations imply that solutes may interact over an unexpectedly long range.

   pubmed/PMID-14524770-long-range-forces-extending-from-polymer-gel-surfaces/info.md

8. 08 · yt0.742

   And he sent me this electron micrograph, and I regret I I don't know which species. I can't can't recall, but what he did was he put particles, and the particles you can see the particles in in the xylem vessel, and he pointed out that they congregate in the middle, and along the edges, where you might expect to find the EZ, there are no particles. So, his conclusion is same thing that happens in with polymers and gels also happens um in vessels. So, what I want to do is get to the basis uh of this phenomenon. And I want to answer five questions. Is the phenomenon general? Um or just those few…

   yt/NnRMRGsAHfA-gerald-pollack-the-fourth-phase-of-water-snc-2018/transcript.txt

9. 09 · pubmed0.735

   - **PMID**: 19392028 - **DOI**: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.036117 - **PMCID**: - **Journal**: Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · **Year**: 2009 - **Authors**: Kate Ovchinnikova, Gerald H Pollack - **MeSH**: Biophysics, Colloids, Hot Temperature, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Microspheres, Models, Statistical, Particle Size, Photons, Polystyrenes, Surface Properties - **URL**: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19392028/ - **Captured**: 2026-05-10T11:10:59

   pubmed/PMID-19392028-cylindrical-phase-separation-in-colloidal-suspensions/info.md

10. 10 · yt0.735

    So So we were looking experimentally for experimental preparation where where we could see that that particles or solutes were kicked out in in some kind of water-based experiment. So we took a gel and and we added water and particles. The particles were little spheres called microspheres. And we looked in the microscope and adjacent to the gel in the water we could see a region where there were no microspheres. Very substantial region. Plenty of microspheres beyond that but not inside of it. And so as we studied this more and more we found that the properties of this we called it initially ex…

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