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Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass with Low-cost Ionic Liquids
Published on: August 10, 2016
A "by-productless" cellulose foaming agent for use in imidazolium ionic liquids
Janet L Scott1, Gianfranco Unali, Alvise Perosa
1Unilever Home and Personal Care R&D Port Sunlight, Quarry Road East, Port Sunlight, CH63 3JW, UK. J.L.Scott@bath.ac.uk
Abstract:
Cellulose foams, or sponges, are produced from solutions in ionic liquids by the aqueous acid mediated decomposition of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-2-carboxylates, where the alkyl group and acid may be selected such that the by-product is the ionic liquid solvent: a by-productless foaming.

