Microfluidics as an emerging platform for exploring soil environmental processes: a critical review

X Zhu, K Wang, H Yan, C Liu, X Zhu… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Investigating environmental processes, especially those occurring in soils, calls for
innovative and multidisciplinary technologies that can provide insights at the microscale …

Carbon mineralization in fractured mafic and ultramafic rocks: A review

H Nisbet, G Buscarnera, JW Carey… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral carbon storage in mafic and ultramafic rock masses has the potential to be an
effective and permanent mechanism to reduce anthropogenic CO2. Several successful pilot …

A microfluidic chip for geoelectrical monitoring of critical zone processes

F Rembert, A Stolz, C Soulaine, S Roman - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We miniaturize geoelectrical acquisition using advanced microfabrication technologies to
investigate coupled processes in the critical zone. We focus on the development of the …

Pore-scale imaging and modelling of reactive flow in evolving porous media: Tracking the dynamics of the fluid–rock interface

C Noiriel, C Soulaine - Transport in porous media, 2021 - Springer
Fluid–mineral and fluid–rock interfaces are key parameters controlling the reactivity and fate
of fluids in reservoir rocks and aquifers. The interface dynamics through space and time …

State-of-the-art review on the application of microfluidics in biogeotechnology

Y **ao, B Cao, J Shi, H Wu, X He, C Zhao, J Chu… - Transportation …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a popular research direction in the interdisciplinary fields of bioengineering and
geotechnical engineering, biogeotechnology shows the potential advantages in …

Reactive flows in porous media: challenges in theoretical and numerical methods

AJC Ladd, P Szymczak - Annual review of chemical and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review theoretical and computational research, primarily from the past 10 years,
addressing the flow of reactive fluids in porous media. The focus is on systems where …

A reactive transport modeling perspective on the dynamics of interface-coupled dissolution-precipitation

H Deng, J Poonoosamy, S Molins - Applied geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In interface coupled dissolution-precipitation systems, the dynamics of the mineral-fluid
interface depends on two intertwining processes: the dissolution of the primary mineral that …

A review of optical imaging technologies for microfluidics

P Zhou, H He, H Ma, S Wang, S Hu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microfluidics can precisely control and manipulate micro-scale fluids, and are also known as
lab-on-a-chip or micro total analysis systems. Microfluidics have huge application potential …

Microfluidic investigation of pore-size dependency of barite nucleation

J Poonoosamy, A Obaied, G Deissmann… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The understanding and prediction of mineral precipitation processes in porous media are
relevant for various energy-related subsurface applications. While it is well known that …

Review of microfluidic devices and imaging techniques for fluid flow study in porous geomaterials

A Jahanbakhsh, KL Wlodarczyk, DP Hand, RRJ Maier… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding transport phenomena and governing mechanisms of different physical and
chemical processes in porous media has been a critical research area for decades …