Physical insight into switchgrass dissolution in ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1264-1269

  Wang, Hui ^a   Gurau, Gabriela ^a   Pingali, Sai Venkatesh ^b   O'Neill, Hugh M ^b   Evans, Barbara R ^b   Urban, Volker S ^b   Heller, William T ^b   Rogers, Robin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass deconstruction; Biopolymers; Ionic liquids; Physical entanglements; Small angle neutron scattering; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; CELLULOSE; DISSOLUTION; IONIC LIQUIDS; MIXTURES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

1-ETHYL-3-METHYLIMIDAZOLIUM ACETATES; CELLULOSE FIBRILS; COVALENT LINKAGE; PHYSICAL ENTANGLEMENTS; PHYSICAL MIXTURES; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SWITCHGRASS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84900037108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500088w     Document Type: Article

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