The fractal aggregation of asphaltenes

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 8799-8808

  Hoepfner, Michael P ^a   Vilas Boîas Fávero, Cláudio ^a   Haji Akbari, Nasim ^a   Fogler, H Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE FRACTIONS; ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; DESTABILIZATION MECHANISMS; FRACTAL AGGREGATION; NANOMETER LENGTH SCALE; PRECIPITANT CONCENTRATIONS; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SMALL-ANGLE SCATTERING;

CRUDE OIL; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HEPTANE; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 84880307454     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la401406k     Document Type: Article

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