Rapid dissolution of cellulose in LiOH/urea and NaOH/urea aqueous solutions.

By J. Cai, Lina Zhang. Macromolecular Bioscience, 2005

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Solar-driven reforming of lignocellulose to H2 with a CdS/CdOx photocatalyst (2017, background): “11 anhydroglucose repeating unit.(37) This confirms that the basic conditions are able to partially dissolve 213 the α-cellulose, providing solvated cellulose as a substrate for photocatalysis.”
Rationalizing cellulose (in)solubility: reviewing basic physicochemical aspects and role of hydrophobic interactions (2012, background): “2001), Na/LiOH in combination with, for example, urea (Cai and Zhang 2005) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) (Yan and Gao 2008).”
Cellulose: Structure and Properties (2015, background): “Recently, the dissolution and modification of cellulose in mixtures of an aqueous base with urea and thiourea has been the focus of interest [140–143].”
Effects of temperature and molecular weight on dissolution of cellulose in NaOH/urea aqueous solution (2008, methodology): “In our laboratory, new solvents, such as aqueous NaOH/urea, NaOH/thiourea and LiOH/urea aqueous solutions have been used to dissolve cellulose at low temperature (Cai and Zhang 2006; Cai et al. 2007a; Ruan et al. 2004; Cai and Zhang 2005).”