Problematic stabilizing films in petroleum emulsions: Shear rheological response of viscoelastic asphaltene films and the effect on drop coalescence

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 6730-6738

  Harbottle, David ^a   Chen, Qian ^b   Moorthy, Krishna ^a   Wang, Louxiang ^a   Xu, Shengming ^b   Liu, Qingxia ^a   Sjoblom, Johan ^c   Xu, Zhenghe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; DROPS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SHEAR FLOW;

BULK CONCENTRATION; ELASTIC CONTRIBUTION; FILM MICROSTRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL MICROSTRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL RHEOLOGY; INTERFACIAL SHEAR RHEOLOGY; PETROLEUM EMULSIONS; WATER OIL INTERFACE;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 84902603216     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5012764     Document Type: Article

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