A total of 174 NMR Proton Relaxation time experiments were performed over a period of 20 years using different instruments in several universities. Namely T 1 and T 2 (the spin-lattice relaxation time and the spinspin relaxation time, respectively) were measured in different samples of water: distilled, homeopathic, spring water and water treated with electromagnetic fields. All samples were deoxygenated and particular care was devoted to avoid paramagnetic impurities. According to classical magnetic resonance literature T 1 = T 2 = 3.6 s. We found surprising results in all the water samples, T 1 being two or three times greater than T 2 . The results have been explained in light of recent physical theories such as coherence domains, quantum electrodynamics (QED), thermodynamics of irreversible processes (TIP) and Pollack's water exclusion zone (EZ). The formation of a supramolecular structure of water is suggested. The results are related to the small dimension of the NMR tubes and the role of surfaces.

Far-from-equilibrium oscillating chemical reactions are among the simplest systems showing complex behaviours and emergent properties, when coupled with diffusion they can behave as excitable media and support impulse and wave propagation. The reaction-diffusion approach has been widely employed to explain patterns generation in a great array of biological processes, like limb development and skin pattering.During the past years our group has been studying the mechanisms of pattern formation and wave propagation occurring when the well known BelousovZhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is carried out in membranes, i.e. the lamellar phases generated by the. 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocoline (DPPC).Many kinetic parameters of the BZ reaction were found to be influenced by the addition of increasing amounts of DPPC. The aggregates in solution are likely capable of interacting with many of the BZ intermediates, like radicals and molecular bromine. In this paper we will illustrate the results coming from a kinetic study on the temporal and spatio-temporal modifications (increase in amplitude of oscillations, increase of the lifespan of the oscillatory regime, etc.) induced on the BZ reaction by the presence of DPPC.