Recent advances and prospects in polymeric nanofluids application for enhanced oil recovery

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, N Yekeen… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes are used to recover bypassed and
residual oil trapped in the reservoir after primary and secondary recovery methods …

A review of many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD): Theoretical models and its applications

J Zhao, S Chen, K Zhang, Y Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) is a novel coarse-grained numerical
method that originated from dissipative particle dynamics. In the MDPD system, a density …

Complexation between oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in dilute solution: Effects of charge asymmetry

S Chen, P Zhang, ZG Wang - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We use dissipative particle dynamics to study polyelectrolyte complexation in dilute
solutions under conditions of either chain-length or concentration asymmetry between the …

Research progress and prospect of silica-based polymer nanofluids in enhanced oil recovery

Y Pan, C Zhang, S Yang, Y Liu… - Nanotechnology …, 2023 - degruyter.com
In recent years, silica-based polymer nanofluids (NFs) have attracted more and more
attention because they can enhance temperature and salt tolerance. This study summarized …

Nanoparticle assembly modulated by polymer chain conformation in composite materials

S Chen, E Olson, S Jiang, X Yong - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mixing nanoparticles into a strategically selected polymer matrix yields nanocomposites with
well-controlled microstructures and unique properties and functions. The modulation of …

Homogeneous gelation leads to nanowire forests in the transition between electrospray and electrospinning

L Lei, S Chen, CJ Nachtigal, TF Moy, X Yong… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The morphology of coatings created by electrostatic deposition can be generally divided into
three categories: wire mats, particles, and films. At intermediate regimes, there should exist …

Drying mediated orientation and assembly structure of amphiphilic Janus particles

K Miller, A Tsyrenova, SM Anthony, S Qin, X Yong… - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Amphiphilic Janus particles demonstrate unique assembly structures when dried on a
hydrophilic substrate. Particle orientations are influenced by amphiphilicity and Janus …

Controlling morphology in electrosprayed methylcellulose nanowires via nanoparticle addition: coarse-grained modeling and experiments

JM Blisko, MJ Grzenda, RM Vladimirsky, CE Shuck… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrospray deposition (ESD) has shown great promise for manufacturing micro-and
nanostructured coatings at scale on versatile substrates with complex geometries. ESD …

Dissipative particle dynamics modeling of hydrogel swelling by osmotic ensemble method

S Chen, X Yong - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
An osmotic ensemble method for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is developed for
simulating the swelling behavior of polymer networks in aqueous solvent under constant …

Janus nanoparticles enable entropy-driven mixing of bicomponent hydrogels

S Chen, X Yong - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mixing incompatible polymers in water to form homogeneous hydrogels possessing both
hydrophilic and lipophilic components is challenging due to high enthalpic penalty and …