[HTML][HTML] Determination of soil pore size distribution and water retention curve by internal magnetic field modulation at low field 1H NMR

EH Novotny, ER Deazevedo, G de Godoy… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
The determination of the soil pore size distribution, water retention curve, and derived
parameters that control important processes in soils, such as water supply for plants; …

Surface enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation mechanisms and their significance in chemical engineering applications

BE Kinn, TR Myers, AM Allgeier - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•NMR relaxometry mechanisms relevant to porous material characterization
include paramagnetic coupling, dipolar coupling and diffusion processes.•Determination of …

Direct measurement of pore size and surface relaxivity with magnetic resonance at variable temperature

P Yan, F Marica, J Guo, BJ Balcom - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
A variety of magnetic resonance relaxometry methods have been developed to determine
pore size in porous rocks. Uncertainties in pore-size estimates may occur due to uncertainty …

Pore size distribution measurement with magnetic resonance T2 distributions outside the fast diffusion regime

P Yan, J Guo, F Marica, BJ Balcom - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on Brownstein-Tarr (BT) theory, a new method is proposed to determine the
pore size distribution which is an important petrophysical property in studying fluid storage …

Nuclear magnetic resonance average pore-size estimations outside the fast-diffusion regime

M Müller-Petke, R Dlugosch… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The pore-size distribution (PSD) of geologic materials is an important rock parameter to
understand the flow of water in the subsurface. PSDs can be obtained from sieving …

Pore-size measurement from eigenvalues of magnetic resonance relaxation

A Afrough, F Marica, B MacMillan, BJ Balcom - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
Nonground eigenvalues are widely disregarded in magnetic resonance relaxation
measurements of porous media due to difficulties involved in their measurement, detection …

Effect of clay content and distribution on hydraulic and geophysical properties of synthetic sand-clay mixtures

G Osterman, M Sugand, K Keating, A Binley, L Slater - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
Geophysical methods show promise for detecting the spatial variability of subsurface clay
content and its effect on subsurface hydraulic properties. We have developed a laboratory …

Temperature-Dependent Magnetic Resonance Relaxation Behaviors in Porous Materials

P Yan, MS Zamiri, F Marica, B Nicot, D Green… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We observe divergent temperature-dependent magnetic resonance relaxation behaviors
across various brine-saturated porous materials. The paramagnetic and diamagnetic nature …

Absolute measurement of pore size based on nonground eigenstates in magnetic-resonance relaxation

A Afrough, S Vashaee, L Romero Zerón, B Balcom - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
Magnetization evolution due to translational motion of spins in magnetic fields is governed
by the Bloch-Torrey equations. In confined geometries, magnetization of such systems is …

Mechanical stability is key for large-scale implementation of photocatalytic surface-attached film technologies in water treatment

DR Ramos, M Iazykov, MI Fernandez… - Frontiers in Chemical …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Replacement of classical tertiary water treatment by chemical-free sunlight-driven
photocatalytic units has been often proposed. Photocatalysts are required to be cost …