Recent advances in regenerated cellulose materials

S Wang, A Lu, L Zhang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The dual threats of the depletion of nonrenewable energy and environmental pollution
caused by petroleum-based polymers motivate utilization of naturally occurring polymers to …

Application of ionic liquids for dissolving cellulose and fabricating cellulose-based materials: state of the art and future trends

J Zhang, J Wu, J Yu, X Zhang, J He… - Materials Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose, a well-known fascinating biopolymer, has been considered to be a sustainable
feedstock of energy sources and chemical engineering in the future. However, due to its …

Toward the proactive design of sustainable chemicals: Ionic liquids as a prime example

S Beil, M Markiewicz, CS Pereira, P Stepnowski… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The tailorable and often unique properties of ionic liquids (ILs) drive their implementation
into a broad variety of seminal technologies. The modular design of ILs allows in this context …

Ionic liquid processing of cellulose

H Wang, G Gurau, RD Rogers - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Utilization of natural polymers has attracted increasing attention because of the consumption
and over-exploitation of non-renewable resources, such as coal and oil. The development of …

Towards a molecular understanding of cellulose dissolution in ionic liquids: Anion/cation effect, synergistic mechanism and physicochemical aspects

Y Li, J Wang, X Liu, S Zhang - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose is one of the most abundant bio-renewable materials on the earth and its
conversion to biofuels provides an appealing way to satisfy the increasing global energy …

Ionic liquid dissolution utilized for biomass conversion into biofuels, value-added chemicals and advanced materials: A comprehensive review

JB Ocreto, WH Chen, AP Rollon, HC Ong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic and algal biomass feedstocks are the most plentiful and cost-effective
renewable sources of biofuels (sugar, bioethanol, biodiesel, and bio-oil), value-added …

Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for lignocellulosic biomass fractionation

DJGP van Osch, LJBM Kollau… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignocellulosic biomass has gained extensive research interest due to its potential as a
renewable resource, which has the ability to overtake oil-based resources. However, this is …

Ionic liquid-based green processes for energy production

S Zhang, J Sun, X Zhang, J **n, Q Miao… - Chemical society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
To mitigate the growing pressure on resource depletion and environment degradation, the
development of green processes for the production of renewable energy is highly required …

The relevance of structural features of cellulose and its interactions to dissolution, regeneration, gelation and plasticization phenomena

B Lindman, B Medronho, L Alves, C Costa… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose is the most abundant polymer and a very important renewable resource. Since
cellulose cannot be shaped by melting, a major route for its use for novel materials, new …

Competing forces during cellulose dissolution: From solvents to mechanisms

B Medronho, B Lindman - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Cellulose is a polymer so widely abundant and versatile that we can find it almost
everywhere in many different forms and applications. Cellulose dissolution is a key aspect of …