Recreating mineralogical petrographic heterogeneity within microfluidic chips: assembly, examples, and applications.

To date, the visualisation of flow through porous media assembled in microfluidic chips was confined to mineralogically homogenous systems. Here we present a key evolution in the method that permits the investigation of mineralogically realistic rock analogues.

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