Gas Hydrates: Formation, Structures, and Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Interest and research on gas hydrates have been rising considerably in recent years. Flow assurance of oil and natural gas pipelines, exploitation of natural methane hydrate sedimetns, gas separation and storage, desalination and refrigeration have been researched extensively. Much progress has been made to date, however, several basic physical properties of gas hydrates still remain unknown, which include electromagnetic properties such as dielectric functions, phase diagrams and polymorphism at ultrahigh pressures, surface and interfacial specific free energies. Therefore, authors are invited to submit manuscripts to this Molecules Special Issue, “Gas Hydrates: Formation, Structures, and Properties”, in which all aspects related to gas hydates, such as hydrate formation and deposition, phase transition, structures, physical properties, hydrate inhibition, slurry rheology, and other fields about gas hydrates are discussed.

Dr. Nobuo Maeda
Prof. Dr. Zhiyuan Wang
Dr. Xiaodong Shen
Guest Editors

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