The increasingly severe environmental pollution and energy shortage issues have
demanded the production of renewable and sustainable biofuels to replace conventional …

Lignocelluloses' pretreatment is targeted for the improvement of hydrolysis of their
carbohydrates, ie, cellulose and hemicelluloses. Modification of the hardheaded structure of …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have now been acknowledged as reaction media for biotransformations.
The first three examples were reported in this field in 2000, and since then, numerous …

This paper reviews the application of ionic liquids to the deconstruction and fractionation of
lignocellulosic biomass, in a process step that is commonly called pretreatment. It is divided …

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 …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant, low-cost, bio-renewable resource that holds
enormous importance as alternative source for production of biofuels and other …

Ionic liquids are room-temperature molten salts, composed mostly of organic ions that may
undergo almost unlimited structural variations. This review covers the newest aspects of …

Overcoming the recalcitrance (resistance of plant cell walls to deconstruction) of
lignocellulosic biomass is a key step in the production of fuels and chemicals. The …

Ionic liquids and catalysis: Recent progress from knowledge to applications - ScienceDirect
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In contrast to a recently expressed, and widely cited, view that “Ionic liquids are starting to
leave academic labs and find their way into a wide variety of industrial applications”, we …