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Two-Phase Water and Its Coil-to-Bridge Transitions

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The downward portions are analyzed with the two-state Boltzmann statistics and surprisingly support the mixture model. The data is fitted well with “two-phase water” and its coil-to-bridge transition. The two-phase water consists of self-assembled water chains that are in equilibrium with liquid. The coexistence of the chain phase with liquid in water can explain the long-range condensation distances, high viscosity of water, the humidity-dependent phase transition, the larger waist radius of water meniscus between AFM tip and a surface, and the long nucleation time.

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Kim, B.I. (2023). Two-Phase Water and Its Coil-to-Bridge Transitions. In: Self-Assembled Water Chains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19087-2_6

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