Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Xiao, Senbo"

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    • Anti-Gas Hydrate Surfaces: Perspectives, Progress and Prospects 

      Wang, Feng; Ma, Rui; Xiao, Senbo; English, Niall; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Mitigating gas-hydrate formation and the subsequent gas-pipeline plugging is of critical importance for ensuring both flow assurance and safety in the exploration and transportation of deep-water resources. Until now, ...

    • Anti-icing ionogel surfaces: inhibiting ice nucleation, growth and adhesion 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xiao, Senbo; Håkonsen, Verner; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Delaying ice and frost formation is one of the key strategies to mitigate the hazards induced by ice accretion. The current surfaces for delaying ice formation rely on restricting heterogeneous ice nucleation, which fails ...

    • Assembly graphene platelets for bioinspired, stimuli-responsive, low ice adhesion surfaces 

      Fu, Yuequn; Xiao, Senbo; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Design and fabrication of functional materials for anti-icing and de-icing attract great attention from both academic research and industry. Among them, the study of fish-scale-like material has been proved that enabling ...

    • Atomistic dewetting mechanics of Wenzel and monostable Cassie–Baxter states 

      Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article, 2018)
      Water adhesion underlies wettabilities, and thus hydrophobicities, and defines surface properties like self-cleaning, icephobicity and many others. The nanomechanics of water adhesion, especially in the dynamic dewetting ...

    • Atomistic Insight into Nanofluid Enabled Enhanced Oil Recovery 

      Chang, Yuanhao (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:72, Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      Nanoparticles (NPs) possess great potential in applications to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) due to their outstanding features of ultra-small size, great surface and interface effect, high sustainability, etc. The underlying ...

    • Atomistic Insight into Oil Displacement on Rough Surface by Janus Nanoparticles 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Janus nanoparticles (NPs) hold great potential in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), although the mechanism remains unclear. In the study, the displacement dynamics of trapped oil in the rough channel by Janus NPs are unraveled ...

    • Atomistic insights into the droplet size evolution during self-microemulsification 

      Fu, Yuequn; Xiao, Senbo; Liu, Siqi; Chang, Yuanhao; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Microemulsions have been attracting great attention for their importance in various fields including nanomaterials fabrication, food industry, drug delivery, and enhanced oil recovery. Atomistic insights into the ...

    • Characterization of the quasi-liquid layer on gas hydrates with molecular dynamics simulations 

      Zhang, Yifan; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Understanding the properties of the surficial quasi-liquid layer (QLL) is a prerequisite in proper handling of gas hydrates, a potential alternative future energy resource. Despite of its critical importance, the ...

    • Contact Angle and Condensation of a CO2 Droplet on a Solid Surface 

      Wu, Jianyang; Ervik, Åsmund; Snustad, Ingrid; Xiao, Senbo; Brunsvold, Amy; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major contribution to manmade increase in global warming. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary technology for lowering CO2 emissions to an acceptable level that ...

    • Deformation and rupture of Janus nanoparticle-stabilized Pickering emulsion in confined channel 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; Zeng, Fanhua; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The interaction between Pickering emulsions and confined channels is vital for their industrial applications. However, how solid particle shells modulate the deformation stability and rupture limit of Pickering emulsions ...

    • Displacement Dynamics of Trapped Oil in Rough Channels Driven by Nanofluids 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Wang, Xiao; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      It is well accepted that nanofluids have great potential in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). However, the EOR mechanisms by nanofluids largely remain elusive. In the study, the displacement dynamics of residual oil trapped in ...

    • Displacement mechanism of oil in shale inorganic nanopores by supercritical carbon dioxide from molecular dynamics simulations 

      Liu, Bing; Wang, Chao; Zhang, Jun; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; Shen, Yue; sun, baojiang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Supercritical CO2 (scCO2), as an effective displacing agent and clean fracturing fluid, exhibits a great potential in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) from unconventional reservoirs. However, the microscopic translocation ...

    • Displacement of Nanofluids in Silica Nanopores: Influenced by Wettability of Nanoparticles and Oil Components 

      Wang, Xiao; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The fundamental understanding of fluids transportation in confined nanopores is essential for groundwater remediation, oil exploration, water purification, etc. Here, all-atom models of various oil components and nanoparticles ...

    • The dual role of hydrogen in grain boundary mobility 

      Ding, Yu; Zhao, Kai; Lin, Meichao; Yu, Haiyang; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      ABSTRACT The effect of solute hydrogen on shear-coupled grain boundary (GB) migration is investigated with the dislocation-array type Σ25(430)[001] GB and a dual role of hydrogen on GB mobility is unraveled. In the low ...

    • Dynamic anti-icing surfaces (DAIS) 

      Wang, Feng; Zhuo, Yizhi; He, Zhiwei; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Remarkable progresses have been made in surface icephobicity in the recent years. The mainstream standpoint of the reported anti-icing surfaces yet only considers the ice-substrate interface and its adjacent regions being ...

    • Effect of Nanoparticles on Spontaneous Imbibition of Water into Ultraconfined Reservoir Capillary by Molecular Dynamics Simulation 

      Wang, Xiao; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Imbibition is one of the key phenomena underlying processes such as oil recovery and others. In this paper, the influence of nanoparticles on spontaneous water imbibition into ultraconfined channels is investigated by ...

    • Enabling phase transition of infused lubricant in porous structure for exceptional oil/water separation 

      Wang, Feng; Luo, Sihai; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Wenjing; Zhuo, Yizhi; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The fundamental mechanism behind oil/water separation materials is their surface wettability that allows either oil or water to pass through. The conventional materials for oil/water separation generally have extreme ...

    • Enabling Sequential Rupture for Lowering Atomistic Ice Adhesion 

      Xiao, Senbo; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Wang, Feng; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      State-of-the-art passive icephobicity relies mainly on static parameters such as surface energy, coating elastic modulus, crack sizes and so on. Low ice adhesion resulting from dynamic de-icing process, for instance ice ...

    • Enhancing the mechanical durability of icephobic surfaces by introducing autonomous self-healing function 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; He, Zhiwei; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Ice accretion presents a severe risk for human safety. Despite great efforts for developing icephobic surfaces (the surface with an ice adhesion strength below 100 kPa) have been devoted, expanding the lifetime of ...

    • Gels as emerging anti-icing materials: a mini review 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Chen, Jianhua; Xiao, Senbo; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gel materials have drawn great attention recently in the anti-icing research community due to their remarkable potentials for reducing ice adhesion, inhibiting ice nucleation, and restricting ice propagation. Although the ...