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Experimental investigation of divalent ions and CTAB effects on heavy oil emulsion stability in carbonate reservoirs [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Low-salinity water injection can boost oil extraction but often triggers asphaltene instability, leading to damaging emulsions and clogging in carbonate reservoirs.
Alireza Tajik Mansouri, Mina Sadat Mahdavi, Amir Hossein Saeedi Dehaghani   +2 more
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Co-encapsulation of chlorogenic acid and cinnamaldehyde essential oil in Pickering emulsion stablized by chitosan nanoparticles

Food Chemistry: X, 2022
Most of the current research only explored the loading of an active substance in active packaging. In this study, cinnamaldehyde essential oil (CEO) and chlorogenic acid (CA) were co-encapsulated in chitosan (CS) nanoparticles based Pickering emulsion ...
Ben Niu, Hangjun Chen, Weijie Wu, Xiangjun Fang, Honglei Mu, Yanchao Han, Haiyan Gao   +6 more
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Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Isolation of Cellulose Nanofibre and Enhancement Properties in Biopolymer Composites

Molecules, 2021
The physical properties, such as the fibre dimension and crystallinity, of cellulose nanofibre (CNF) are significant to its functional reinforcement ability in composites.
Olaiya N. G., Abdul Khalil H. P. S., Salah M. El-Bahy, Mohd Rafatullah, Che K. Abdullah, Zeinhom M. El-Bahy, Olaiya F. Grace   +6 more
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Enhancing the Performance of Rapeseed Oil Lubricant for Machinery Component Applications through Hybrid Blends of Nanoadditives

Lubricants, 2023
Bio-lubricants have demonstrated promising tribological and physical properties, suggesting their potential advantages in the lubrication of critical machinery components.
Belal G. Nassef, Florian Pape, Gerhard Poll   +2 more
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Refining grain structure and porosity of an aluminium alloy with intensive melt shearing [PDF]

, 2011
The official published version of the article can be obtained at the link below.Intensive melt shearing was achieved using a twin-screw machine to condition an aluminium alloy prior to solidification.
B. Jiang, Campbell, Fan, Fan, Fan, Fox, G.M. Scamans, Greer, H. Li, M. Xia, Mohanty, Murty, Samuel, Y. Zuo, Z. Fan, Zuo, Zuo   +16 more
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Evidence, Mechanisms and Improved Understanding of Controlled Salinity Waterflooding Part 1 : Sandstones [PDF]

, 2016
Acknowledgements TOTAL are thanked for partial supporting Jackson through the TOTAL Chairs programme at Imperial College London, for supporting Vinogradov through the TOTAL Laboratory for Reservoir Physics at Imperial College London, and for granting ...
Chamerois, M, Hamon, G, Jackson, M. D., Vinogradov, Jan   +3 more
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Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets. [PDF]

, 2020
Manipulating liquids with tunable shape and optical functionalities in real time is important for electroactive flow devices and optoelectronic devices, but remains a great challenge.
Brongersma, Mark L, Chu, Steven, Cui, Yi, Gao, Guoping, Hwang, Harold Y, Li, Yanxi, Liu, Bofei, Liu, Nian, Pei, Allen, Wang, Lin-Wang, Wang, Yifei, Xu, Jinwei, Yang, Ankun, Yu, Xiaoyun, Zhang, Jinsong, Zhou, Guangmin, Zhu, Yangying, Zong, Linqi   +17 more
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Carbon steel wettability characteristics enhancement for improved enamelling using a 1.2 kW high power diode laser [PDF]

, 2000
High-power diode laser (HPDL) surface treatment of a common engineering carbon steel(EN8) was found to effect significant changes to the wettability characteristics of the metal.
Agarwala, Agathopoulos, Bourell, Cassie, Chidambaram, Fowkes, Girifalco, Heitz, Henari, J Lawrence, Jaycock, L Li, Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence, Li, Li, Li, Neumann, Nikopoulos, Olfert, Ueki, Wenzel, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou   +25 more
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Quantum vacuum photon-modes and superhydrophobicity [PDF]

, 2015
Nanostructures are commonly used for developing superhydrophobic surfaces. However, available wetting theoretical models ignore the effect of vacuum photon-modes alteration on van der Waals forces and thus on hydrophobicity.
Dellieu, Louis, Deparis, Olivier, Muller, Jerome, Sarrazin, Michael   +3 more
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Fabrication and Characterization of the Egg-White Protein Chitosan Double-Layer Emulsion

Molecules, 2022
Egg-white protein has an abundance of hydrophobic amino acids and could be a potential emulsifier after modification. Here, egg-white protein was modified via ultrasonic and transglutaminase treatments to destroy the globular structure.
Qingmei Pan, Zhipeng Zhang, Ruifang Wu, Danjun Guo, Wei Xu, Hongxun Wang, Yang Yi   +6 more
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