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2026-10-08 Google Scholar + MDPI + ferrocell.us references: ferrocell research

Priorities 2 and 3 (independent work on the device behind Wheeler's evidence for claims 2 and 6).

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Peer-reviewed series by Alberto Tufaile and Adriana P. B. Tufaile (Soft Matter Lab, University of Sao Paulo), with Timm A. Vanderelli (Ferrocell USA, 739 Route 259, Ligonier PA) and Michael Snyder (Space Science Center, Morehead State University, KY) [web: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3896/4/2/35]: - Tufaile, Vanderelli, Tufaile, "Light polarization using ferrofluids and magnetic fields", Advances in Condensed Matter Physics 2017, doi 10.1155/2017/2583717 (Scholar: cited by 26). - Tufaile, Vanderelli, Snyder, Tufaile, "Observing dynamical systems using magneto-controlled diffraction", Condensed Matter 4(2):35, 27 Mar 2019, doi 10.3390/condmat4020035. Page text has 0 matches for "Wheeler". - Tufaile, Snyder, Tufaile, "Horocycles of Light in a Ferrocell", Condensed Matter 6(3):30, 9 Aug 2021, doi 10.3390/condmat6030030. Abstract [web]: a point light source gives "images of circles, parabolas, and hyperboles"; "We interpret the Ferrocell images as analogous to a Möbius transformation by inversion of the magnetic field"; the circles are "horocycles" of hyperbolic geometry. Keywords include "hyperbolic geometry". No match for "Wheeler". - Also: "Jumping Sundogs, Cat's Eye and Ferrofluids" (Condensed Matter 2020, 5(3):45); TechConnect 2019 "Controlling light diffraction with magnetic nanostructures"; "Structural Color and Mueller Matrix Analysis in a Ferrocell" (Magnetochemistry 2025, 11(10):86); "Photonic Glasses in Ferrofluid Thin Films" (2025); JOPR Feb 2024 "Investigating Isogyres in Ferrofluids and Horocycles..." doi 10.47852/bonviewJOPR42022329 (downloaded). - Independent of the Tufaile group: Lori Anne Gardi, "Demystifying the Ferrocell" (2021, ResearchGate), "Numerical Simulation of the Ferrocell" (SSRN 4576100, 2023), Gardi and Snyder "Finding the Right Angles of a Ferrocell" (preprints.org 202402.1111, 2024; blocked by bot check); V. Dave and R. V. Mehta, "Diffraction of laser light by a Ferrocell and ferrofluid layers", Optik 2024.

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  • Tufaile-FerrocellBookApril2021.pdf (122 pp, the "Ferrocell Educational Guide" by A. and A. Tufaile, free from ferrocell.us). Section 3 Intro [read: text layer, about p.65-68]: a Ferrocell with a ring of RGB LEDs; "the tangent of the Ferrocell pattern lines in green are perpendicular to the lines of the magnetic field in blue"; light-pattern lines "can cross each other", unlike field lines; "the light patterns we see at Ferrocell are magneto-optical effects and not just magnetic effects." No match for "Wheeler", "inertial plane".
  • Tufaile-2024-JOPR-horocycles.pdf (21 pp).
  • Electromagnetic_lensing_using_a_Ferrocell_V2.pdf (9 pp): Timm A. Vanderelli, "Electromagnetic lensing using a Ferrofluid thinfilm" (Helmholtz-coil and laser experiment).

Bearing on the claims

  • Claim 2 (Poincare disk / hyperbolic field): published work also describes ferrocell images in hyperbolic-geometry terms (horocycles, Mobius inversion), but as an optical model of light scattered by field-aligned nanoparticle structures, not as the shape of the field itself. Wheeler is not cited. The reviewers should weigh this as related work in different words.
  • Claim 6 (ferrocell and RGB LED as confirmation): the Tufaile account says pattern lines are perpendicular to field lines and are magneto-optical. This is a different reading of the same images from Wheeler's. Stake: Vanderelli makes and sells the Ferrocell and co-authors several papers; the Tufailes thank him for the devices.