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Tailoring Materials with Specific Wettability in Biomedical Engineering

open access: yesAdvanced Science, 2021
As a fundamental feature of solid surfaces, wettability is playing an increasingly important role in our daily life. Benefitting from the inspiration of biological paradigms and the development in manufacturing technology, numerous wettability materials ...
Lingyu Sun, Jiahui Guo, Hanxu Chen
exaly   +2 more sources

Effects of surface roughness on wettability and surface energy of coal

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Surface roughness has an important effect on the wettability and surface energy of coal. Although the predecessors had studied the effect of surface roughness on the wettability of coal, there were few researches on the effect of surface energy of coal ...
Jian Zhang   +8 more
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Understanding the role of wettability distribution on pore-filling and displacement patterns in a homogeneous structure via quasi 3D pore-scale modelling

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Most numerical simulation studies have focused on the effect of homogenous wettability on fluid flow dynamics; however, most rocks display spatially heterogeneous wettability.
Amir Jahanbakhsh   +2 more
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Characteristics of Viscoelastic-Surfactant-Induced Wettability Alteration in Porous Media

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Wettability alteration is one of the most important mechanisms of surfactant flooding. In this work, the combined Amott/USBM (United States Bureau of Mines) method was applied to study the average wettability alteration of initially neutral cores after ...
Kexing Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A potential NMR-based wettability index using free induction decay for rocks

open access: yesMagnetic Resonance Letters, 2023
The wettability of reservoir rocks saturated with oil and water is one of the most important factors influencing petrophysics and oil recovery. Minerals with different wettability constitute the overall heterogeneous wettability in rocks.
Can Liang   +5 more
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A laboratory scale approach to wettability restoration in chalk core samples [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Wettability in chalk has been studied comprehensively to understand fluid flow mechanisms impacting coreflooding experiments. Wettability becomes paramount in understanding the parameters influencing chalk-fluid interactions.
Sachdeva Jaspreet S.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electrolyte‐Wettability Issues and Challenges of Electrode Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage, Energy Conversion, and Beyond

open access: yesAdvanced Science, 2023
The electrolyte‐wettability of electrode materials in liquid electrolytes plays a crucial role in electrochemical energy storage, conversion systems, and beyond relied on interface electrochemical process.
Lei Zhao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Wettability Heterogeneity on Water-Gas Two-Phase Displacement Behavior in a Complex Pore Structure by Phase-Field Model

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Understanding the immiscible displacement mechanism in porous media is vital to enhancing the hydrocarbon resources in the oil and gas reservoir. Improving resource recovery requires quantitatively characterizing the effect of wettability heterogeneity ...
Wenbo Gong, Jinhui Liu
doaj   +1 more source

A predictive model for the wettability of chalk

open access: yesSN Applied Sciences, 2020
Wettability is usually measured in special core analyses of limited plug samples according to typically costly and time-consuming procedures. For comparative purposes, wettability is considered an index.
Meysam Nourani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Two Disinfectant Solutions on Wettability of Flexible Denture Base Material [PDF]

open access: yesAl-Rafidain Dental Journal, 2015
Aims: To evaluate wettability of flexible denture base martial after immersion in saliva, artificial saliva, chlorhexidine and sodium hypochlorite for 7 days period of time.
Asmaa A. Abdulkadir
doaj   +1 more source

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