Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Abstract
Renewable Breakdown Routine
In order to transform cellulose-containing biomass into liquid fuels such as ethanol, it is first necessary to break down the cellulose into its constituent sugars. Efforts toward this end have focused on chemical protocols using concentrated acid or ionic liquid solvents, and on biochemical protocols using cellulase enzymes.
Luterbacher
et al.
(p.
277
) now show that γ-valerolactone, a small molecule solvent that can itself be sourced renewably from biomass, promotes efficient and selective thermal breakdown of cellulose in the presence of dilute aqueous acid.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
641 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献