Abstract
To date, the visualisation of flow through porous media assembled in microfluidic chips was confined to mineralogically homogenous systems. Here we present a key evolution in the method that permits the investigation of mineralogically realistic rock analogues.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4677-4681 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Lab on a Chip |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 24 |
Early online date | 1 Nov 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Dec 2016 |
Bibliographical note
This material includes work supported by Royal Society Research Grant RG140009. BA was supported by a Society of Petrophysics and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) grant and an Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (AFES) bursary. MC was supported by a University of Aberdeen College of Physical Sciences PhD studentship. The authors thank Munasuonyu Walter for SEM images of crushed marble†, MSc students Oluwatoyole A. Adepoju and Vasiliki Koutsogianni for their contribution to the experiments, and undergraduate student Duncan Mackenzie for helpful discussions.Open Access via RSC Gold 4 Gold