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CO2 flooding is an important technique for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and carbon storage, yet CO2 channeling remains a critical issue due to its high mobility, and existing anti-channeling methods have limitations. In this work, a low-interfacial-tension viscoelastic fluid containing amphiphilic nanoparticles (LFNA) was formulated by combining a small-molecule viscosifier (LFLM) with amphiphilic nanoparticles (LQNA). Its performance and synergistic effect with CO2 flooding were systematically evaluated. The LFNA formulation is simple (0.4 wt% LFLM + 0.01 wt% LQNA-3), exhibiting a viscosity of 5.82 mPa\u00b7s, an interfacial tension of 0.0296 mN\/m, and predominantly elastic behavior (tan \u03b4 = 0.791). It shows good tolerance to temperature, salinity, and pH variation, favorable injectivity in tight cores (Kg = 0.45 \u2212 1.07 mD), and selective plugging capability. Core-flooding experiments in both homogeneous and heterogeneous models demonstrate that CO2\u2013LFNA alternating injection after waterflooding outperforms continuous CO2 flooding in EOR. In heterogeneous models, the LFNA slug preferentially plugs high-permeability channels, expands sweep volume, and effectively mobilizes residual oil in low-permeability zones, with incremental recoveries of 12.49% and 15.74% for low- and high-permeability cores, respectively. Overall, the combined incremental recovery of CO2\u2013LFNA alternating flooding (14.26%) exceeds that of water\u2013LFNA alternating flooding (11.49%) and continuous CO2 flooding (9.85%). These results confirm that LFNA provides a synergistic effect of plugging, oil-washing, and sweep improvement. Using LFNA for CO2 channeling control is feasible and effective, and it also benefits CO2 storage and carbon reduction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules31193493","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]],"date-time":"2026-10-01T08:19:08Z","timestamp":1790842748000},"page":"3493","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Oil Recovery by Synergistic CO2 Flooding Using Viscoelastic Fluids of Low Interfacial Tension Containing Amphiphilic Nanoparticles"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Mengsheng","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Jilong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-4475-8760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chuan","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"software","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Shanfa","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Catalysis and CO<sub>2<\/sub> Utilization, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Yuanwu","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Oil and Gas Technology, Tarim Oilfield Company, Korla 841000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Zhe","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, J., Duan, W., Feng, Y., Han, Q., Sun, D., Shi, S., and Ma, J. 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