Applications of Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy in Petroleum Characterization: Opportunities and Challenges

The Role of Methyl Groups in the Early Stage of Thermal Polymerization of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Revealed by Molecular Imaging

(2021) Pengcheng Chen et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Formation of Noncovalent Complexes between Complex Mixtures of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Asphaltenes) and Substituted Aromatics Studied by Fluorescence Spectroscopy

(2021) Tabinah Faisal et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

π-Diradical Aromatic Soot Precursors in Flames

(2021) Jacob W. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Deep Learning Approach for Molecular Classification Based on AFM Images

(2021) Jaime Carracedo-Cosme et al.   Nanomaterials

Automated structure discovery in atomic force microscopy

(2020) Benjamin Alldritt et al.   Science Advances

Petroleum pitch: Exploring a 50-year structure puzzle with real-space molecular imaging

(2020) Pengcheng Chen et al.   CARBON

Overview of Asphaltene Nanostructures and Thermodynamic Applications

(2020) Bruno Schuler et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Stable Olympicenyl Radicals and Their π-Dimers

(2020) Qin Xiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stability, Combustion, and Compatibility of High-Viscosity Heavy Fuel Oil Blends with a Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil

(2020) Michael D. Kass et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Mechanisms of Asphaltene Aggregation: Puzzles and a New Hypothesis

(2020) Yunlong Zhang et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Conformational Analysis of Nonplanar Archipelago Structures on a Cu (111) Surface by Molecular Imaging

(2020) Pengcheng Chen et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Probing Aggregation Tendencies in Asphaltenes by Gel Permeation Chromatography. Part 2: Online Detection by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

(2020) Jonathan Putman et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Laser-Based Ionization: A Review on the Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization and Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry in Petroleum Research

(2020) Daniel J. Ryan et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Application of the Electron Spin Resonance Technique in the Characterization of Brazilian Oils: Correlation with Their Biodegradation Level and Polar Composition

(2020) Christiane R. de Abreu et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Investigation of Island/Single-Core- and Archipelago/Multicore-Enriched Asphaltenes and Their Solubility Fractions by Thermal Analysis Coupled with High-Resolution Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry

(2020) Anika Neumann et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

The qPlus sensor, a powerful core for the atomic force microscope

(2019) Franz J. Giessibl   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Controlling a Chemical Coupling Reaction on a Surface: Tools and Strategies for On-Surface Synthesis

(2019) Sylvain Clair et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Guide for Atomic Force Microscopy Image Analysis To Discriminate Heteroatoms in Aromatic Molecules

(2019) Percy Zahl et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

On the early stages of soot formation: Molecular structure elucidation by high-resolution atomic force microscopy

(2019) Mario Commodo et al.   COMBUSTION AND FLAME

Elucidating the Geometric Substitution of Petroporphyrins by Spectroscopic Analysis and Atomic Force Microscopy Molecular Imaging

(2019) Yunlong Zhang et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

(2019) Sara Barja et al.   Nature Communications

An sp-hybridized molecular carbon allotrope, cyclo[18]carbon

(2019) Katharina Kaiser et al.   SCIENCE

NMR Spectroscopy Analysis of Asphaltenes

(2019) Salim Ok et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Catalogue of Plausible Molecular Models for the Molecular Dynamics of Asphaltenes and Resins Obtained from Quantitative Molecular Representation

(2019) Jason C. Law et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

21 Tesla FT-ICR Mass Spectrometer for Ultrahigh-Resolution Analysis of Complex Organic Mixtures

(2018) Donald F. Smith et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Direct Visualization of Individual Aromatic Compound Structures in Low Molecular Weight Marine Dissolved Organic Carbon

(2018) Shadi Fatayer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Atomic Force Microscopy Identifying Fuel Pyrolysis Products and Directing the Synthesis of Analytical Standards

(2018) Shadi Fatayer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Insights into incipient soot formation by atomic force microscopy

(2018) Fabian Schulz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE

Advances in Asphaltene Petroleomics. Part 3. Dominance of Island or Archipelago Structural Motif Is Sample Dependent

(2018) Martha L. Chacón-Patiño et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons

(2018) Oliver Gröning et al.   NATURE

Nonalternant Aromaticity and Partial Double Bond in Petroleum Molecules Revealed: Theoretical Understanding of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Obtained by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

(2018) Yunlong Zhang   ENERGY & FUELS

Determination of Hansen Solubility Parameters of Asphaltene Model Compounds

(2018) Masato Morimoto et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Understanding the Effects of Sample Preparation on the Chemical Structures of Petroleum Imaged with Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

(2018) Yunlong Zhang et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Thermal Analysis Coupled to Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry with Collision Induced Dissociation for Complex Petroleum Samples: Heavy Oil Composition and Asphaltene Precipitation Effects

(2017) Christopher P. Rüger et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

A New Extended Structural Parameter Set for Stochastic Molecular Reconstruction: Application to Asphaltenes

(2017) Celal Utku Deniz et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Asphaltenes: Absorbers and Scatterers at Near-Ultraviolet–Visible–Near-Infrared Wavelengths

(2017) Igor N. Evdokimov et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Single Dalton Collision-Induced Dissociation for Petroleum Structure Characterization

(2017) Ashley M. Wittrig et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Heavy Oil Based Mixtures of Different Origins and Treatments Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2017) Bruno Schuler et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Synthesis and characterization of triangulene

(2017) Niko Pavliček et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Characterizing aliphatic moieties in hydrocarbons with atomic force microscopy

(2017) Bruno Schuler et al.   Chemical Science

Generation, manipulation and characterization of molecules by atomic force microscopy

(2017) Niko Pavliček et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Single-Core PAHs in Petroleum- and Coal-Derived Asphaltenes: Size and Distribution from Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and Optical Absorption Measurements

(2016) R. Dutta Majumdar et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Reversible Bergman cyclization by atomic manipulation

(2016) Bruno Schuler et al.   Nature Chemistry

Exploring the validity of the Glidewell–Lloyd extension of Clar’s π-sextet rule: assessment from polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons

(2016) Ouissam El Bakouri et al.   THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY ACCOUNTS

Role of Kekulé and Non-Kekulé Structures in the Radical Character of Alternant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A TAO-DFT Study

(2016) Chia-Nan Yeh et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparing asphaltenes: Deposit versus crude oil

(2015) Estrella Rogel et al.   FUEL

40 years of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

(2015) Alan G. Marshall et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY

Unraveling the Molecular Structures of Asphaltenes by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2015) Bruno Schuler et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

From Perylene to a 22-Ring Aromatic Hydrocarbon in One-Pot

(2014) Bruno Schuler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Unprecedented Ultrahigh Resolution FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry and Parts-Per-Billion Mass Accuracy Enable Direct Characterization of Nickel and Vanadyl Porphyrins in Petroleum from Natural Seeps

(2014) Amy M. McKenna et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Superaromatic Stabilization Energy as a Novel Local Aromaticity Index for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

(2013) Jun-ichi Aihara et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Entanglement and Polyradical Character of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Predicted by Projected Hartree–Fock Theory

(2013) Pablo Rivero et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Adsorption Geometry Determination of Single Molecules by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2013) Bruno Schuler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Forty years of Clar's aromatic π-sextet rule

(2013) Miquel Solà   Frontiers in Chemistry

Determination of Structural Building Blocks in Heavy Petroleum Systems by Collision-Induced Dissociation Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry

(2012) Kuangnan Qian et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Imaging the charge distribution within a single molecule

(2012) Fabian Mohn et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Bond-Order Discrimination by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2012) L. Gross et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison of Coal-Derived and Petroleum Asphaltenes by13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, DEPT, and XRS

(2011) A. Ballard Andrews et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Thermodynamics of Multicomponent PAH Mixtures and Development of Tarlike Behavior

(2011) James W. Rice et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Molecular structures for the oligomeric constituents of petroleum pitch

(2010) Ward A. Burgess et al.   CARBON

Structural Identification of the Monomeric Constituents of Petroleum Pitch

(2010) W. A. Burgess et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Comparing Laser Desorption/Laser Ionization Mass Spectra of Asphaltenes and Model Compounds

(2010) Hassan Sabbah et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

The Modified Yen Model†

(2010) Oliver C. Mullins   ENERGY & FUELS

Analysis and Identification of Biomarkers and Origin of Color in a Bright Blue Crude Oil

(2010) Priyanka Juyal et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Structure/formula informatics of isomeric sets of fluoranthenoid/fluorenoid and indacenoid hydrocarbons

(2010) Jerry Ray Dias   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY

Characterization of Supercomplex Crude Oil Mixtures: What Is Really in There?

(2009) Saroj K. Panda et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Aromaticity in pericondensed cyclopenta-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons determined by density functional theory nucleus-independent chemical shifts and the Y-rule — Implications in oil asphaltene stability

(2009) Yosadara Ruiz-Morales   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Synthesis, Stability, and Photochemistry of Pentacene, Hexacene, and Heptacene: A Matrix Isolation Study

(2009) Rajib Mondal et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Chemical Structure of a Molecule Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2009) L. Gross et al.   SCIENCE

The colloidal structure of bitumen: Consequences on the rheology and on the mechanisms of bitumen modification

(2008) Didier Lesueur   ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Isomer enumeration of practical benzenoids

(2008) Jerry Ray Dias   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY

Petroleomics: Chemistry of the underworld

(2008) A. G. Marshall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA