ArticleGels (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Fishing Net-Gravel Interlocking Mechanism to Investigate Molecular Dynamics of Physical Gel Formation in Oil-Water Emulsions: A Simulation Study for an Oil Field in Eastern China.
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The viscosity peak phenomenon at the phase inversion point in crude oil emulsions can be understood through the lens of physical gelation. This study employs coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) simulations to investigate the gel-like network structures formed at oil-water interfaces across varying water-to-oil particle-number ratios. We reveal that pure water forms a fully connected hydrogen bond network (500 molecules, 313.15 K, 2.68 H-bonds per molecule) behaving as a flexible physical gel scaffold, while pure oil exhibits a dispersed sol-like structure (35.9 clusters average). At the phase inversion point (50% water cut), the water network fragments into 44 gel-like clusters (193 network bonds) while oil forms 76 small clusters acting as physical crosslinking nodes embedded within the water network voids. This creates an interlocked gel structure with a maximum Interlocking Index (
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