HC-polymer 3D-network conjugated by hydrocarbon-fluorocarbon core/shell aggregates in supercritical CO2.

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For the last two decades, many polymers have been tested to increase CO2 viscosity for enhanced oil recovery. Unfortunately, HC-polymers were found to be inactive for the viscosity enhancement due to their poor solubility in supercritical CO2 (scCO2). A recent SANS study (RB1610015) found that unusual FC-HC amphiphiles without a “headgroup” formed HC-core/FC-shell cylindrical aggregates in scCO2. The elongated aggregates can play an important role to enhance solubility of HC-polymers in scCO2 and to advance the polymer 3D-network by wrapping and conjugating the polymers with HC-HC interaction and/or specific interactions like hydrogen bond. This proposal aims to find appropriate HC-polymer/FC-HC amphiphile mixtures for constructing 3D-network in scCO2. This SANS study will provide important information and enable the development of novel, EOR-oriented, CO2-thickeners.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87841621
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87841621
Provenance
Creator Mr Craig Davies; Dr Shirin Alexander; Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Sajad Kiani; Dr Adam Czajka; Mr Christopher Hill; Professor Masanobu Sagisaka; Professor Julian Eastoe
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-09T11:21:48Z