Atomistic insight into salinity dependent preferential binding of polar aromatics to calcite/brine interface: implications to low salinity waterflooding

Abstract This paper resolve the salinity-dependent interactions of polar components of crude oil at calcite-brine interface in atomic resolution. Molecular dynamics simulations carried out on the present study showed that ordered water monolayers develop immediate to a calcite substrate in contact w...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Mehdi Koleini, Mohammad Hasan Badizad, Hassan Mahani, Ali Mirzaalian Dastjerdi, Shahab Ayatollahi, Mohammad Hossein Ghazanfari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91402-0