Wettability alteration: A comprehensive review of materials/methods and testing the selected ones on heavy-oil containing oil-wet systems
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- 1 June 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
- Vol. 220, 54-77
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2015.02.006
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Funding Information
- NSERC Discovery Grant (RES0011227)
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (7566)
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