An electrically tunable wettability in a liquid crystal/ polymer composite film is demonstrated, in which liquid crystal molecules are anchored among polymer grains. The tunable wettability of the composite films originates from the reorientation of the anchored liquid-crystal molecules, which is switched by an in-plane electric field with squared pulses of voltages. These liquid crystal/polyme...

The migration and entrapment of dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) in aquifer formations is typically believed to be controlled by physical heterogeneities. This belief is based upon the assumption that permeability and capillary properties are determined by the soil texture. Capillarity and relative permeability, however, will also depend on porous medium wettability characteristics. This...

Low-salinity water flooding has become one of the major emerging enhanced oil recovery techniques where lower salinity is flooded into a hydrocarbon reservoir in order to increase recovery. It’s been widely reported that wettability alteration from oil-wet water-wet low-salinity process improves Many factors control system wettability, however, role and intensity each factor not completely unders...

We describe the ongoing development of lattice-Boltzmann (LB) computer simulation codes to study flow in porous media at the pore scale. LB simulations have evolved over the past decade and are now used as a tool to calculate both singleand multi-phase flow properties directly at the pore scale using X-ray Micro Tomography (XMT) pore space images. We will review the development of our codes to ...

The competitive adsorption of collagen and bovine serum albumin (BSA) on surfaces with varied wettability was investigated with imaging ellipsometry, and ellipsometry. Silane modified silicon surfaces were used as substrates. The results showed that surface wettability had an important effect on protein competitive adsorption. With the decrease of surface wettability, the adsorption of collagen...

In this research, two carbon structures silica nanohybrids Pickering emulsions were prepared. Graphite and activated carbon were carbon allotropes with different morphologies of laminar and spherical, respectively. The effect of carbon morphology investigated on the related silica nanohybrids Pickeringemulsions for C-EOR. Therefore, nanohybrids were prepared with graphite and activated carbon t...

The influence of ultra-short laser modification on the surface morphology and possible chemical alteration poly-lactic acid (PLA) matrix in respect to optimization cellular antibacterial behavior were investigated this study. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) morphological examination processed PLA showed formation diverse hierarchical microstructures, generated by irradiation with a range flu...