Abstract:Waterflooding is one of the geotechniques used to recover
fuel
sources from nanoporous geological formations. The scientific understanding
of the process that involves the multiphase flow of nanoconfined fluids,
however, has lagged, mainly due to the complex nanopore geometries
and chemical compositions. To enable the benchmarked flow of nanoconfined
fluids, architected geomaterials, such as synthesized mesoporous
silica with tunable pore shapes and surface chemical properties, are
used for designing and cond… Show more
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