Activation of microcrystalline cellulose in a CO(2)-based switchable system.

Qinghua Zhang, Nermin Simge Oztekin, Joël Barrault, Karine De Oliveira Vigier, François Jérôme

Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers, CNRS/Université de Poitiers, ENSIP, 1 rue Marcel Doré, 86022 Poitiers, France.

ChemSusChem 2013 Apr

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MCC Hammer: Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) is dissolved and subsequently regenerated in a CO2 -based switchable solvent system, drastically reducing its crystallinity index and thereby its recalcitrance to hydrolysis. Among the investigated systems, based on cheap, widely available chemicals, is one capable of dissolving up to 15 wt % MCC within 1 h at room temperature. Break it down! Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Qinghua Zhang, Nermin Simge Oztekin, Joël Barrault, Karine De Oliveira Vigier, François Jérôme. Activation of microcrystalline cellulose in a CO(2)-based switchable system. ChemSusChem. 2013 Apr;6(4):593-6