Surfactants at Liquid Interfaces: Applications in Enhanced Oil Recovery, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surfactants; enhanced oil recovery; interfacial tension; interfacial rheology; wettability; emulsion; foam
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Dear Colleagues,
Surfactants can adsorb at the oil–water interface and greatly reduce oil–water interfacial tension, and thus, are widely used for improving oil recovery. In recent years, with the development of high-temperature and high-salinity reservoirs, heavy oil reservoirs, low-permeability reservoirs and other harsh-condition reservoirs, new functional requirements, such as temperature resistance, salt resistance, viscosity reduction, wetting modification and controllable emulsification performance, have been established for surfactants. The interfacial properties of new surfactants, such as extended and zwitterionic surfactants, have become a hot topic in recent years. As such, we are pleased to launch this Special Issue entitled "Surfactants at Liquid Interfaces: Applications in Enhanced Oil Recovery, 2nd Edition" to improve the current understanding of the structure–performance relationships of surfactants in the areas of enhanced oil recovery and interface science.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research and review articles on all aspects of the interface behavior of surfactants, especially extended and zwitterionic surfactants, for enhanced oil recovery.
Dr. Lu Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liquid interface
- surfactant
- adsorption
- crude oil
- enhanced oil recovery
- interfacial tension
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