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Currently, significant hurdles lie ahead in China's lacustrine shale oil exploration and exploitation, particularly due to the high clay mineral content, which severely impacts pore development in organic-rich shales. In this study, we take the medium- to high-maturity shale of the Qingshankou Formation (K2
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