Researchers at Rice University have proved that
adding graphene oxide to water - based drilling fluids can improve oil extraction by minimizing potential leakage.
Not exact matches
The team, led by Prof Ian Kinloch, Prof Robert Freer and Yue Lin,
added a small amount of
graphene to strontium titanium
oxide.
«And you can tune the separation of a nanoscroll's layers, and do all sorts of neat things with
graphene oxide that you can't really do with nanotubes and
graphene itself,» Stein
adds.
So,
adding sodium dodecyl sulfate allows the
graphene to evenly mix in the water with the precursors for the
oxide crystals.