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1. Kwon, T.H., Cho, G.C., and Santamarina, J. C. (2008) "Gas hydrate dissociation in sediments: Pressure-temperature evolution", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 9(3), Q03019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001920 [PDF] [Link]

2. Kwon, T.H., Kim, H.S., and Cho, G.C. (2008) "Dissociation behavior of CO2 hydrate in sediments during isochoric heating", Environmental Science and Technology, 42(22), 8571-8577. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es801071e [PDF] [Link]

3. Kwon, T.H. and Cho, G.C. (2009) "Evolution of compressional wave velocity during CO2 hydrate formation in sediments", Energy and Fuel, 23(11), 5731-5736. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ef900634w [PDF] [Link]

4. Kwon, T.H., Song, K.I., and Cho, G.C. (2010) "Destabilization of marine gas hydrate-bearing sediments induced by a hot wellbore: A numerical approach", Energy and Fuel, 24(10), 5493-5507. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ef100596x [PDF] [Link]

5. Kwon, T.H., Lee, K., Cho, G.C., and Lee, J.Y. (2011) "Geotechnical properties of deep oceanic sediments recovered from the hydrate occurrence regions in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea, Offshore Korea", Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28(10), 1870-1883. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.02.003 [PDF] [Link]

6. Kwon, T.H., Kneafsey, T.J., and Rees, E.V.L. (2011) "Thermal dissociation behavior and dissociation enthalpies of methane-carbon dioxide mixed hydrates", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(25), 8169-8175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jp111490w [PDF] [Link]

7. Kwon, T.H., and Cho, G.C. (2012) "Submarine slope failure primed and triggered by bottom water warming in oceanic hydrate-bearing deposits", Energies, 5(8), 2849-2873. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en5082849 [PDF] [Link]

8. Kim, H.S., Cho, G.C., and Kwon, T.H. (2013) "Effect of CO2 hydrate formation on seismic wave velocities of fine-grained sediments", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 14(6), 1787-1799. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20102 [PDF] [Link]

9. Kwon, T.H., Oh, T.M., Choo, Y.W., Lee, C., Lee, K.R., and Cho, G.C. (2013) "Geomechanical and thermal responses of hydrate-bearing sediments subjected to thermal stimulation: Physical modeling using a geotechnical centrifuge", Energy and Fuel, 27(8), 4507-4522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ef3018699 [PDF] [Link]

10. Ta, X.H., Yun, T.S., Muhunthan, B., and Kwon, T.H. (2015) "Observations of pore-scale growth patterns of carbon dioxide hydrate using X-ray computed microtomography", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 16(3), 912-924. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005675 [PDF] [Link]

11. Cha, Y., Yun, T.S., Kim, Y.J., Lee, J.Y., and Kwon, T.H. (2016) "Geomechanical, hydraulic and thermal characteristics of deep oceanic sandy sediments recovered during the second Ullueng Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition", Energies, 9(10), 775. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en9100775 [PDF] [Link]

12. Park, T., and Kwon, T.H. (2018) "Effect of electric field on gas hydrate nucleation kinetics: Evidence for the enhanced kinetics of hydrate nucleation by negatively charged clay surfaces", Environmental Science and Technology, 52(5), 3267-3274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05477 [P DF] [Link]

13. Park, T., Lee, J. Y., and Kwon, T. H. (2018) "Effect of pore size distribution on dissociation temperature depression and phase boundary shift of gas hydrate in various fine-grained sediments", Energy and Fuels, 32(4), 5321-5330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00074 [PDF] [Link]

14. Han, G., Kwon, T.H., Lee, J.Y., and Kneafsey, T.J. (2018) "Depressurization-induced fines migration in sediments containing methane hydrate: X-ray computed tomography imaging experiments", Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(4), 2539-2558. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014988 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Park, T., Yoon, S., Jung, J., and Kwon, T.H. (2020) "Effect of fluid-rock interactions on in situ bacterial alteration of interfacial properties and wettability of CO2-brine-mineral systems for geologic carbon storage", Environmental Science & Technology, 54(23), 15355-15365. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05772 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Kim, A., Cho, G.C., and Kwon, T.H. (2014) "Site characterization and geotechnical aspects on geological storage of CO2 in Korea", Geosciences Journal, 18(2), 167-179. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-013-0065-4 [PDF] [Link]

2. Voltolini, M., Kwon, T.H., and Ajo-Franklin, J.B. (2017) “Visualization and prediction of supercritical CO2 distribution in sandstones during drainage: An in situ synchrotron X-ray micro-computed tomography study”, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 6, 230-245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2017.10.002 [PDF] [Link]

3. Jeon, M.K., Kwon, T.H., Park, J.S., and Shin, J.H. (2017) "In situ viscoelastic properties of insoluble and porous polysaccharide biopolymer dextran produced by Leuconostoc mesenteroides using particle-tracking microrheology", Geomechanics and Engineering,12(5), 849-862. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/gae.2017.12.5.849 [PDF] [Link]

4. Lee, G.J., Choi, S.K., and Kwon, T.H. (2017) "Hydromechanical responses of coal powders by CO2 adsorption", Environmental Geotechnics, 4(2), 94-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.15.00048 [PDF] [Link]

5. Baek, S.H., Hong, J.W., Kim, K.Y., Yeom, S., and Kwon, T.H. (2019) "X‐ray computed microtomography imaging of abiotic carbonate precipitation in porous media from a supersaturated solution: insights into effect of CO2 mineral trapping on permeability", Water Resources Research, 55(5), 3835-3855. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023578 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Kim, D., O'Farrell, C., Toth, C.R.A., Montoya, O., Gleg, L.M., Kwon, T.H., Yoon, S. (2018) "Microbial community analyses of produced waters from high-temperature oil reservoirs reveal unexpected similarity between geographically distant oil reservoirs", Microbial Biotechnology, 11(4), 788-796. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13281 [PD F] [Link]

2. Park, T., Jeon, M.K., Yoon, S., Lee, K, S., and Kwon, T.H. (2019) "Modification of interfacial tension and wettability in oil–brine–quartz system by in situ bacterial biosurfactant production at reservoir conditions: Implications for microbial enhanced oil recovery", Energy and Fuels, 33(6), 4909-4920. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00545 [PDF] [Link]

3. Jeong, M.S., Noh, D.H., Hong, E.J., Lee K.S., and Kwon, T.H. (2019) "Systematic modeling approach to selective plugging using in situ bacterial biopolymer production and Its potential for microbial enhanced oil recovery", Geomicrobiology Journal, 36(5), 468-481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2019.1573277 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Jeon, M.K., Kim, S., Hosseini Zadeh, A., and Kwon, T.H. (2020) "Study on viscous fluid flow in disordered-deformable porous media using hydro-mechanically coupled pore-network modeling", Transport in Porous Media, 133, 207-227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-020-01419-8 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Ham, S.M. and Kwon, T.H. (2019) "Characteristics of steady-state propagation of hydraulic fractures in ductile elastic and two-dimensionally confined plate media", International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 114, 164-174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2018.12.023 [PDF] [Link]

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1. Ham, S.M. and Kwon, T.H. (2020) "Photoelastic observation of toughness-dominant hydraulic fracture propagation across an orthogonal discontinuity in soft, viscoelastic layered formations", International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 134, 104438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2020.104438 [PDF] [Link]

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