Recreating mineralogical petrographic heterogeneity within microfluidic chips: assembly, examples, and applications

Stephen A Bowden, Yukie Tanino* (Corresponding Author), Blessing Akamairo, Magali Christensen

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4677-4681
Number of pages5
JournalLab on a Chip
Volume16
Issue number24
Early online date1 Nov 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 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.

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