Microfluidic investigation of pore-size dependency of barite nucleation

Abstract The understanding and prediction of mineral precipitation processes in porous media are relevant for various energy-related subsurface applications. While it is well known that thermodynamic effects can inhibit crystallization in pores with sizes <0.1 µm, the retarded observation of mine...

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Main Authors: Jenna Poonoosamy, Abdulmonem Obaied, Guido Deissmann, Nikolaos I. Prasianakis, Moritz Kindelmann, Bastian Wollenhaupt, Dirk Bosbach, Enzo Curti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Communications Chemistry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-023-01049-3