Rationalizing cellulose (in)solubility: reviewing basic physicochemical aspects and role of hydrophobic interactions

By Bruno Medronho, A. Romano, M. Miguel, L. Stigsson, B. Lindman. Cellulose, 2012

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Cellulose in NaOH–water based solvents: a review (2016, methodology): “43 Betaine derivative (neither exact composition nor concentration given) was reported to increase gelation temperature (Medronho et al. 2012) by 10 °C as compared with 3.”
Sustainable bioplastics: Recent progress in the production of bio-building blocks for the bio-based next-generation polymer PEF (2020, background): “However, the one-pot synthesis of HMF from polysaccharides is still challenging, because cellulose is hardly soluble in water or general organic solvents [34].”
Glucose, not cellobiose, is the repeating unit of cellulose and why that is important (2017, background): “The crystal space group is P21for cellulose Ib (Nishiyama et al. 2002), cellulose II (Langan et al. 2001), cellulose IIII (Wada et al. 2004), and cellulose IIIII (Wada et al. 2009).”
About the structure of cellulose: debating the Lindman hypothesis (2012, background): “French The amphiphilic character of cellulose is dramatically illustrated by viewing computer models of a small model cellulose Ib crystal (Nishiyama et al. 2002).”
Dissolution of cellulose in aqueous NaOH/urea solution: role of urea (2014, background): “In 2010, Lindman suggested that the solubility or insolubility characteristics of cellulose are significantly based upon amphiphilic and hydrophobic molecular interactions (Medronho et al. 2012; Glasser et al. 2012).”