Chementator: Solid-catalyst, ionic-liquid combination shown to depolymerize cellulose
| By Gerald Ondrey
Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany; www.mpi-muelheim.mpg.de/kofo) have demonstrated that solid acids are powerful catalysts for the hydrolysis of cellulose dissolved in an ionic liquid. Even the cellulose…