Sentences with phrase «synthetic oil molecules»

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Pedro Pereira - Almao, a heavy - oil researcher who left Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, has developed a catalyst that can «crack» complex bitumen molecules into simpler synthetic crude.

Tour's scientific research areas include nanoelectronics, graphene electronics, silicon oxide electronics, carbon nanovectors for medical applications, green carbon research for enhanced oil recovery and environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, graphene photovoltaics, carbon supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, CO2 capture, water splitting to H2 and O2, water purification, carbon nanotube and graphene synthetic modifications, graphene oxide, carbon composites, hydrogen storage on nanoengineered carbon scaffolds, and synthesis of single - molecule nanomachines which includes molecular motors and nanocars.

The smaller molecules of synthetic oil are able to pass through very small cracks and crevices that the larger molecules of petroleum - based oil can not.