PUBLICATIONS
Selected Recent Research Articles
Book on chemical enhanced oil recovery published in 2019
Guzik, A.; Raffa, P.* Direct synthesis via RAFT of amphiphilic diblock polyelectrolytes facilitated by the use of a polymerizable ionic liquid as a monomer. Polym. Chem., 2021,12, 5505-5517, online
Raffa, P.* Interactions between an Associative Amphiphilic Block Polyelectrolyte and Surfactants in Water: Effect of Charge Type on Solution Properties and Aggregation. Polymers, 2021, online (open access)
Raffa, P.*, Kassi, A., Gosschalk, J., Migliore, N., Polgar, L.M., Picchioni, F. A Structure‐Properties Relationship Study of Self‐Healing Materials Based on Styrene and Furfuryl Methacrylate Cross‐Linked via Diels–Alder Chemistry. Macromol. Mat. Eng., 2021, online (open access). Selected as inside cover
Raffa, P.*, Picchioni, F. Preliminary evaluation of amphiphilic block polyelectrolytes as potential flooding agents for low salinity chemical enhanced oil recovery. Journal of Petroleoum Science and Engineering, 2020, online (open access)
Migliore, N., Zijlstra, D., van Kooten, T., Deuss, P., Raffa, P.* Amphiphilic Copolymers Derived from Butanosolv Lignin and Acrylamide: Synthesis, Properties in Water Solution, and Potential Applications. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020, online (open access)
N. Migliore, F. Picchioni, P. Raffa*; The effect of macromolecular structure on the rheology and surface properties of amphiphilic random Polystyrene-r-Poly(meth)acrylate copolymers prepared by RDRP, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 2836-2846. online (open access)
P. Druetta*, P. Raffa, F. Picchioni; Chemical enhanced oil recovery and the role of chemical product design. Applied Energy 252 (2019) 113480, online
Polgar, L. M., Fallani, F., Cuijpers, J., Raffa*, P., Broekhuis, A., van Duin, M., & Picchioni, F. (2019). Water-swellable elastomers: synthesis, properties and applications. Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 35(1), 45-72, online
Druetta, P., Raffa, P., & Picchioni, F. (2018). Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Nanotechnology as Solution to an Old Issue in Enhanced Oil Recovery. Applied Sciences, 8(12), [2596], online
Noordergraaf, I., Fourie, T. K., & Raffa, P. (2018). Free-Radical Graft Polymerization onto Starch as a Tool to Tune Properties in Relation to Potential Applications: A Review. Processes, 6(4), 31, online
Raffa, P., Broekhuis, A. A., & Picchioni, F. (2016). Polymeric surfactants for enhanced oil recovery: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 145, 723-733, online
Raffa, P., Wever, D. A. Z., Picchioni, F., & Broekhuis, A. A. (2015). Polymeric Surfactants: Synthesis, Properties, and Links to Applications. Chemical reviews, 115(16), 8504-8563, online