• EOR
• amphiphilic copolymers
• amphiphilic terpolymers
• rheology
• self-assembly
• zeta potential

My thesis work has been divided mainly in four parts: in the first, the synthesis of co- and terpolymers containing tert-butyl methacrylate, glycidyl methacrylate and styrene monomers with a different architecture was performed via RAFT. The synthesized polymers were characterized via GPC and H1-NMR. In the second, the co- and terpolymers were hydrolysed and neutralized to obtain charged amphiphilic/macrosurfactans materials with specific rheological proprieties. In the third part, solubility tests and rheological measurements were performed to understand which of the neutralized polymers were suitable for enhanced oil recovery applications. In the fourth and last part, solution properties and zeta potential measurements were carried out on the only one neutralized polymer fully soluble in water.