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In addition to chip scale flooding visualization, micro-scale imaging reveals the mechanisms of the viscous fingering in gas flooding and the high sweep efficiency of foam; micro-emulsion size and distribution in gas and foam flooding. Coated silica nanoparticle CO2 foam is significantly more stable than sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) foam at both pore scale and bulk foam. 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