A Synthesis of Computational and Experimental Approaches of Evaluating Chemical, Physical, and Mechanistic Properties of Asphalt Binders

Figure 15

Topographic images showing the interaction between n-heptane and asphaltenes. (a) Asphaltene with n-heptane, (b) asphaltene during n-heptane evaporation, and (c) asphaltene after evaporation of n-heptane. The figure is obtained from Nikooyeh [47] (under the creative commons attribution license/public domain).