Dissolution of cellulose with ionic liquids and its application : a mini-review

By Shengdong Zhu, Yuan-xin Wu, Qiming Chen, Ziniu Yu, Cun-wen Wang, Shiwei Jin, Yigang Ding, Gang Wu. 2006

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Production and modification of nanofibrillated cellulose using various mechanical processes: a review. (2014, background): “Ionic liquids (ILs) are organic salts having the temperature below 100 ◦C (Zhu et al., 2006).”
Interaction of ionic liquids with polysaccharides. 5. Solvents and reaction media for the modification of cellulose (2008, methodology): “A huge amount of work is spent currently to explore this path as an alternative route to the traditional cellulose shaping processes and the NMNO method (Michels et al. 2005, Kosan et al. 2008; Swatloski et al. 2003).”
Dissolution Behavior of Chitin in Ionic Liquids (2010, background): “[22,23] Recently, RTILs had been applied to dissolve the native polysaccharide,[24,25] and some other natural materials.”
Overview of biomass pretreatment for cellulosic ethanol production. (2009, methodology): “The previously used ILs include N-methylmorpholine -N-oxide monohydrate (NMMO)([163]), 1-n-butyl-3methylimidazolium chloride (BMIMCl)([164-167]), 1-allyl-3methylimidazolium chloride (AMIMCl)([165,168,169]), 3-methyl-N-bytylpyridinium chloride (MBPCl) and benzyldimethyl (tetradecyl) ammonium chloride”
Deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals. (2011, background): “Novel Pretreatment Approaches Ionic liquids (ILs) were first reported to disrupt cellulose crystallinity in 2002 (58).”