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Systemic studies on the hydrate anti-agglomeration mechanism and development of robust hydrate anti-agglomeration agents in order to avoid hydrate plugging during oil/gas drilling and transportation at high sub-cooling conditions. The main interests focus on the understanding of effects of oil/water ratio, AA species, cosurfactant species and salinity. Based on the study of model systems, optimal solutions for real systems (methane hydrate in crude oil at high pressure) at wide water-cut range will be investigated.

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Patents

Yushan Yan, Yan Liu, Minwei Sun, “Evaporation-assisted Two-stage Technique to Prepare Zeolite Nanoparticle Suspension for Ultra-low-dielectric Application”, submitted, 2009.

Yushan Yan, Rui Cai, Minwei Sun, “Ambient Pressure Synthesis of Zeolite Films and Their Applications as Corrosion Resistant Coatings”, Application No. 12/575433, 2009

Jian Zhang, Minwei Sun, Le Zhang, “Preparation of High Water-Absorbent Resin”, CN 1535991A, 2004

Jian Zhang, Minwei Sun, Le Zhang, etc. “Synthesis of a Novel Crosslinking Agent and Super-Absorbent Polymer Crosslinked by it”, CN 1344756A, 2002

Book Chapters

Christopher M. Lew, Minwei Sun, Yan Liu, and Yushan Yan: "Pure-Silica-Zeolite Low-Dielectric Constant Materials," Ordered Nanoporous Solids: Recent Advances and Prospects V. Valtchev, S. Mintova, and M. Tsapatsis (Ed.), Elsevier (2008).

Journal Articles

Sun, M. and Firoozabadi, A.: "New Surfactant for Hydrate Anti-agglomeration in Hydrocarbon Flowlines and Seabed Oil Capture," J Colloid Interf Sci (2013), 402, 312–319.

Sun, M., Wang, Y., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Effectiveness of Alcohol Cosurfactants in Hydrate Antiagglomeration," Energy Fuels (2012) 26, 5626-5232.

Heather K. Hunt, Christopher M. Lew, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Pure-silica LTA, CHA, STT, ITW, and -SVR thin films and powders for low-k applications," Microp Mesopor Mat (2010) 130, 49~55.

Heather K. Hunt, Christopher M. Lew, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Pure-silica zeolite thin films by vapor phase transport of fluoride for low-k applications," Microp Mesopor Mat (2010) 128, 12~18.

Minwei Sun, Wolfgang Maichen, Ramdas Pophale, et al.: "Dielectric Constant Measurement of Zeolite Powders by Time Domain Reflectometry," Microp Mesopor Mat (2009) 123, 10~14.

Christopher M. Lew, Yan Liu, Brandon Day, Grant M. Kloster, Hugo Tiznado, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Hydrofluoric Acid-Resistant and Hydrophobic Pure-Silica-Zeolite MEL Low-Dielectric Constant Films," Langmuir (2009) 25(9), 5039~5044.

Yan Liu, Christopher M. Lew, Minwei Sun, et al.: "On-Wafer Crystallization of Ultralow-k Pure Silica Zeolite Films," Angew Chem Int Edit (2009) 48, 4777~2780.

Shuang Gu, Rui Cai, Ting Luo, Zhongwei Chen, Minwei Sun, et al.: "A Soluble and Highly Conductive Ionomer for High Performance Hydroxide Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells," Angew Chem Int Edit (2009) 48, 6499~6502.

Tierui Zhang, Qiao Zhang, Jianping Ge, James Goebl, Minwei Sun, et al.: "A Self-Templated Route to Hollow Silica Microspheres," J Phys Chem C (2009) 113(8), 3168~3175.

Christopher M. Lew, Zijian Li, Shuang Li, Sonjong Hwang, Yan Liu, Dora I. Medina, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Pure-Silica-Zeolite MFI and MEL Low-Dielectric Constant Films with Fluoroorganic Functionalization, " Adv Funct Mater (2008) 18(21), 3454~3460.

Minwei Sun, Yan Liu, Christopher M. Lew, et al.: "MEL-type Pure-silica Zeolite Nanocrystals Prepared by an Evaporation-Assisted Two-Stage Synthesis Method as Ultra-Low-k Materials," Adv Funct Mater (2008) 18, 1732~1738.

Rui Cai, Minwei Sun, Zhongwei Chen, et al.: "Ionothermal Synthesis of Oriented Zeolite AEL Films and Their Application as Corrosion-Resistant Coatings," VIP paper in Angew Chem Int Edit (2008) 47(3), 525~528.

U Loi Lao, Minwei Sun, Mark Matsumoto, et al.: "Genetic Engineering of Self-Assembled Protein Hydrogel Based on Elastin-like Sequences with Metal Binding Functionality," Biomacromolecules (2007) 8(12), 3736~3739.

Christopher M. Lew, Zijian Li, Stacey I. Zones, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Control of Size and Yield of Pure-Silica-Zeolite MFI Nanocrystals by Addition of Methylene Blue to the Synthesis Solution," Microp Mesopor Mat (2007) 105(1-2), 10~14.

Zijian Li, Mark C. Johnson, Minwei Sun, et al.: "Mechanical and Dielectric Properties of Pure-Silica-Zeolite Low-k Materials," VIP paper in Angew Chem Int Edit (2006) 45(38), 6329~6332.

Minwei Sun, Jian Zhang, Le Zhang, et al.: "Effect of Crosslinkers on Superabsorbents, " Acta Polym Sin (2004) 4, 595~599 (in Chinese).

Jian Zhang, Minwei Sun, Le Zhang, et al.: "Water Absorbency of Poly(sodium acrylate) Super-absorbents Crosslinked with Modified Poly(ethylene Glycol)s," J Appl Polym Sci (2003) 90(7), 1851~1856.

Jian Zhang, Minwei Sun, Le Zhang, et al.: "Improvement of Salt Resistance and Gel Strength of Super Absorbent Resin," Petrochemical Technology (2002) 31, 993~996 (in Chinese).

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2008 Phi Beta Kappa International Award (for outstanding international graduate student, by Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, southern California)

2007 Gold Medal Award, Electronics and Communications, Pioneering Micro and Nano Technology Competition (international award for leading group)

2004 Dean’s fellowship (UCR, CA)

2003 Guanghua fellowship (for top graduates in Tsinghua Univ., China)

2002 Best Intern award (Tsinghua Univ., China)

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