Development and performance evaluation of macropore intelligent plugging hydrogels (opens in new tab)

Polymer hydrogels are the optimal hydrogels for water channeling control applications, and water-dominant channels in deep reservoirs are often blocked by them.A dual-network hydrogel system (DN-Gel) is innovatively proposed in this study. A chemical crosslinking network (ACL-HG) is constructed via glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMA), and dopamine methacrylamide (DMA), and is composited with a physical crosslinking network (GQDs-Gel) of functio...