Understanding Calcium-Mediated Adhesion of Nanomaterials in Reservoir Fluids by Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

ABSTRACT: Interest in nanomaterials for subsurface applications has grown markedly due to their successful application in a variety of disciplines, such as biotechnology and medicine. Nevertheless, nanotechnology application in the petroleum industry presents greater challenges to implementation because of the harsh conditions (i.e. high temperature, high pressure, and high salinity) that exist in the subsurface that far exceed those present in biological applications. The most common subsurface nanomaterial failures include colloidal instability (aggregation) and sticking to mineral surfaces (irreversible retention). We previously reported an atomic force microscopy (AFM) study on the calcium-mediated adhesion of nanomaterials in reservoir fluids (S. L. Eichmann and N. A. Burnham, Sci. Rep. 7, 1161

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6656760 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature