The chemical surfactant flooding can mobilize the trapped oil by lowering the interfacial tension between oil and brine and in some cases altering the reservoir rock wettability. In this work, the effect of surfactants on oil/brine interfacial tension was experimentally investigated. First, the effect of surfactants concentration was surveyed. Afterwards, the effect of salinity on surfactant be...

The kinetics of single-walled carbon nanotube rebundling have been investigated by photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The rate of loss of PL intensity was measured for 12 different nanotubes in three common aqueous surfactants (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS; sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, SDBS; and sodium cholate, SC) as the surfactant suspensions were diluted to promote nanotube rebundling, ...

Phase contrast and epifluorescence microscopy were utilized to monitor morphological changes in human astrocytoma cells during a time-course exposure to single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) conjugates with different surfactants and to investigate sub-cellular distribution of the nanotube conjugates, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that cytotoxicity of the nanotube/surfactant con...

The Zn(II) atom in the title complex, [Zn(C(6)H(4)O(8)S(2))(H(2)O)(5)]·5H(2)O, is coordinated by five water mol-ecules and an O atom of a 4,6-dihy-droxy-benzene-1,3-disulfonate dianion. The coord-ination geometry is distorted octa-hedral, with the Zn-O(sulfonate) bond relatively long compared to the Zn-O(water) bonds. The coordinated and lattice water mol-ecules inter-act with each other and wi...

In the title salt, C(12)H(11)N(2)O(2) (+)·C(7)H(5)O(6)S(-), the dihedral angle between the benzene and pyridine rings in the 4-(4-nitro-benz-yl)pyridinium cation is 82.7 (2)°. Within the anion there is an intramolecular hydroxy-O-H⋯O(carboxylic acid) bond. In the crystal, the cation forms a single N(+)-H⋯O(sulfonate) hydrogen bond with the anion. These cation-anion pairs inter-act through duple...

Reaction of 5-sulfosalicylic acid with hydrazine hydrate at pH = 1 results in the formation of the title hydrated salt, 0.5N(2)H(6) (2+)·C(7)H(5)O(6)S(-)·2H(2)O. The hydrazinium dications lie on centres of inversion. They are located between 3-carb-oxy-4-hy-droxy-benzene-sulfonate anions, forming inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with sulfonate ions and water mol-ecules of crystallisation. F...

In the crystal of the title molecular salt, C7H10N(+)·C6H5O4S(-), the benzene-sulfonate units are linked through phenol-sulfonate O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming chains along the c-axis direction. These chains are linked via N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving two of the three H atoms of the ammonium group of the 4-methyl-anilium cation, giving rise to two-dimensional networks parallel to the bc plane...

Radiation protection and cytotoxicity effects of different concentrations cerium oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solution combined with sodium dodecyl sulphate Vero cells irradiated 18 MV beams