CSMP Seminar @ICTP Friday 16 September at 11:30 hrs - Stasi Seminar Room - Yunfeng LIAN

[Condensed Matter Section]

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Seminar
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TOMORROW---------
Friday, 16 September at 11:30 hrs.
Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor Leonardo building

Yunfeng LIANG
The University of Tokyo

'The Rise of Nanogeoscience: Investigation of Nano scale Phenomena
at Upstream Oil Industry'

Abstract:
Nanogeoscience is a rapidly rising star in the field of geosciences with 
applications in environment science & engineering, and development of 
resource engineering. In this presentation, I’ll briefly overview the 
scope of nanogeosciences. After that, I’ll focus on four different 
topics: (1) how to make a full molecular model of crude oil, which we 
called it “digital oil”; (2) how the interfacial structures change when 
salt in aqueous solutions changes, and what is the typical consequence 
in oil production; (3) how the molecule behaves differently in nanopores 
(as the case of shale gas system) as revealed by NMR relaxation time 
measurement; (4) what are our current efforts for CO2 mineralization 
using first-principles molecular dynamics.

In collaboration with Yoshihiro Masuda (the University of Tokyo), 
Toshifumi Matsuoka, Sumihiko Murata, Kazuya Kobayashi, Ryutaro Hibi, 
Kanako Tagami, Nobuhito Yoshitani, (Kyoto University), Takeshi Tsuji, 
Jihui Jia (Kyushu University), and Masato Morimoto (AIST).