Evidence for island structures as the dominant architecture of asphaltenes

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1597-1604

  Sabbah, Hassan ^a   Morrow, Amy L ^a   Pomerantz, Andrew E ^b   Zare, Richard N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUPS; AROMATIC CORES; AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ENERGY DEPENDENT; FRAGMENTATION BEHAVIOR; ISLAND STRUCTURE; LASER DESORPTION; LASER IONIZATION; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; MASS SPECTRA; MODEL COMPOUND; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; ND : YAG LASERS; PETROLEUM ASPHALTENES; SINGLE PHOTON IONIZATION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTER;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DESORPTION; EXCIMER LASERS; FLUORINE; GAS LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTOIONIZATION;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 79955367633     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef101522w     Document Type: Article

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