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It is well-known that colloid and interface science and petroleum production are inextricably linked. Whether in the reservoir, with its porous structure, or during recovery, crude oil is intimately associated with rock surfaces and with water, often in the form of emulsions. This situation leads to highly complex systems, comprising multiple colloids and interfaces, which require to be optimized if oil is to be recovered efficiently, both in terms of economic cost and with due concern for the environment. This book contains a compilation of contemporary research topics which illustrate various aspects of the importance of colloids and interfaces in crude oil recovery through modifying conditions between the rock, crude oil, and water in the reservoir, in order to achieve improved oil recovery. The specific topics covered relate both to conventional oils, in which waterflooding is the most common secondary and tertiary means of recovery, and to non-conventional heavy oil and natural bitumen, which require thermal recovery methods, owing to their high viscosity.

n/a --- multicomponent ion exchange --- alcohols --- polymer-enhanced foam --- low salinity waterflooding --- heavy oil --- cyclodextrins --- SAGD --- nanoparticle fluids --- CO2 foam --- in-situ rheology --- surfactants --- Pickering emulsions --- enhanced oil recovery --- emulsions --- inclusion complexes --- petroleum --- Bacillus halodurans --- non-Newtonian flow in porous medium --- oil recovery --- Bacillus firmus --- oil film displacement --- surface and interfacial tension --- naphthenic acid --- Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery --- recovery factor --- thermal recovery --- heavy oil and bitumen --- SAG --- colloid and interfacial science --- metal ion interactions --- porous media --- optical video microscopy --- microfluidics --- spore forming bacteria --- interfacial complexation --- electric double layer --- dynamic interfacial tension --- polymer flooding --- wettability --- polymers --- fluid–fluid interactions --- interfaces --- waterflooding --- oil sands --- EOR --- contact angles --- wettability alteration --- biotransformation --- monolayer --- asphaltene --- petroleum colloids --- surface charge --- heavy oil recovery --- fluid-fluid interactions

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The book reprints a set of important scientific papers applying physics and mathematics to address the problem of selective ionic conduction in narrow water-filled channels and pores. It is a long-standing problem, and an extremely important one. Life in all its forms depends on ion channels and, furthermore, the technological applications of artificial ion channels are already widespread and growing rapidly. They include desalination, DNA sequencing, energy harvesting, molecular sensors, fuel cells, batteries, personalised medicine, and drug design. Further applications are to be anticipated.The book will be helpful to researchers and technologists already working in the area, or planning to enter it. It gives detailed descriptions of a diversity of modern approaches, and shows how they can be particularly effective and mutually reinforcing when used together. It not only provides a snapshot of current cutting-edge scientific activity in the area, but also offers indications of how the subject is likely to evolve in the future.

reversal potential --- effects of diffusion coefficients --- permanent charge --- bioelectricity --- electrochemistry --- thermodynamics --- electrokinetics --- molecular mean-field theory --- Boltzmann and Fermi distributions --- Poisson–Boltzmann --- Poisson–Fermi --- Poisson–Bikerman --- Nernst–Planck --- steric and correlation effects --- ion channels --- ion activity --- double-layer capacitance --- nanofluidics --- steric effect --- Poisson-Boltzmann model --- Bikerman model --- entropy --- specific ion size --- electric double layer --- orientational ordering of water dipoles --- Helmholtz free energy --- modified Langevin Poisson-Boltzmann model --- nanopores --- reduced models --- Monte Carlo --- classical density functional theory --- Poisson-Nernst-Planck --- ion transport --- nanopore --- graphene --- crown ether --- ion channel --- selectivity --- permeability --- patch-clamp --- computer simulations --- ionic Coulomb blockade --- 2D materials --- nanotubes --- angstrom slits --- protein dynamics --- molecular dynamics --- non-Hermitian Hamiltonians --- algebraic topology --- semiclassical methods --- statistical mechanics --- polarization --- maxwell equations --- gating current --- dielectric constant --- statistical theory --- linear response --- ionic transport --- NaChBac --- computational electrophysiology --- electrodiffusion model --- stochastic simulations --- current–voltage dependence --- committor probabilities --- n/a --- Poisson-Boltzmann --- Poisson-Fermi --- Poisson-Bikerman --- Nernst-Planck --- current-voltage dependence

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This collection of articles focuses on different aspects of the study of organic conductors. Recent progress in both theoretical and experimental studies is covered in this Special Issue. Papers on a wide variety of studies are categorized into representative topics of chemistry and physics. Besides classical studies on the crystalline organic conductors, applied studies on semiconducting thin films and a number of new topics shared with inorganic materials are also discussed.

organic π-radical --- molecular conductor --- phthalocyanine --- three-dimensional network --- three-dimensional electronic system --- organic conductors --- bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) --- bis(ethylenediseleno)tetrathiafulvalene (BEST) --- bis(ethylenedithio)tetraselenafulvalene (BETS) --- electrical resistivity --- magnetic susceptibility --- X-ray analysis --- charge-ordered state --- quantum chemical calculations --- Madelung energy --- magnetic property --- reversible transformation --- spin ladder --- nodal line semimetal --- single-component molecular conductor --- conductivity --- DOS --- tight-binding model --- interacting electrons in one dimension --- electronic and lattice instabilities --- renormalization group method --- X-ray diffraction --- single crystal --- electron density --- molecular orbital --- single-component molecular conductors --- extended-TTF dithiolate ligands --- gold dithiolate complexes --- (BETS)2Fe1−xGaxCl4 --- π-d interaction --- NMR --- charge glass --- heat capacity --- electric current --- electric voltage --- Boson peak --- chirality --- tetrathiafulvalene --- crystal structures --- band structure calculations --- hydrogen bonding --- charge-transfer salts --- (TMTTF)2X --- deuteration --- anions --- charge transport --- tunnel junction --- MOCVD --- quantum well --- co-doping --- solar cells --- (TMTSF)8(I3)5 --- (TMTSF)5(I3)2 --- (TMTSF)4(I3)4·THF --- organic conductor --- crystal structure --- high pressure --- DFT --- MP2 --- organic superconductors --- Beechgard salts --- Maxwell-Garnett approximation --- high-Tc --- pressure effect --- Dirac electron system --- resistivity --- magnetoresistance --- synchrotron X-ray diffraction --- band calculation --- correlated electron materials --- layered organic conductor --- unconventional superconductivity --- vortex dynamics --- d-wave pairing symmetry --- superconducting gap structure --- magnetic field --- flux-flow resistivity --- charge-ordered insulator --- electric double layer transistor --- organic field-effect transistor --- π–d system --- Mott insulator --- strongly correlated electron system --- multiferroic --- dielectric --- photoconductor --- organic semiconductors --- molecular orbitals --- pyroelectricity --- temperature modulation --- molecular ferroelectrics --- radiative temperature control --- thermal diffusion model --- lithium niobate --- first-principles calculation --- density-functional theory --- charge ordering --- hybrid functional --- electronic structure --- nickel–dithiolene complex --- cycloalkane substituent --- crystalline organic charge-transfer complexes --- disordered systems --- overlap integrals --- extended Hückel approximation --- Dirac electrons --- zero-gap semiconductors --- merging of Dirac cones --- n/a --- π-d system --- nickel-dithiolene complex --- extended Hückel approximation