Research in nanotechnology in the petroleum industry is advancing rapidly and an enormous progress in the application of nanotechnology in this area is to be expected. In particular, adding nanoparticles to fluids may drastically benefit enhanced oil recovery and improve well drilling, by changing the properties of the fluid, rocks wettability alteration, advanced drag reduction, strengthen...

Rheological studies were performed with aqueous salt solutions of viscoelastic cationic surfactant erucyl bis(hydroxyethyl)methylammonium chloride (EHAC) and its mixtures with hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide. The solutions of surfactant itself above the concentration of crossover of wormlike micelles exhibit two regions of rheological response. In the first region, they behave like poly...

in this paper, absorption spectra of both solution and films of cyano azobenzene polymer are investigated. the analysis of overlapped absorption spectra of polymer, related to trans and cis isomers, shows that the population of cis isomers is higher than trans isomers. it means that, cyano azobenzene molecules have a folded structure in polymer, in thermal equilibrium. presence of cyano molecul...

We experimentally demonstrate that addition of small, charge-neutral polymers to a buffer solution can promote compression of dilute solutions of single electrophoresing DNA. This phenomenon contrasts with the observed extension of DNA during capillary electrophoresis in dilute solutions of high molecular weight polymers. We propose these discrepancies in micron-scale DNA configurations arise f...

In a wide variety of systems, knowledge of the behaviour of semidilute polymer solutions is of fundamental importance to obtaining predictive understanding. In this work, we use Brownian dynamics simulations to examine the concentration dependence of the dynamics of semidilute polymer solutions at equilibrium. Due to the overlap of polymer coils with increasing concentration, the properties of ...