The establishment of the place of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) as a new class of green
solvents was essentially grounded on naïve comparisons with Ionic Liquids (ILs), since both …

Global warming, environmental pollution, and an energy shortage in the current fossil fuel
society may cause a severe ecological crisis. Storage and conversion of renewable …

Increasing energy demand, especially in the transportation sector, and soaring CO2
emissions necessitate the exploitation of renewable sources of energy. Despite the large …

The increasing demand for renewable chemicals and fuels requires the exploitation of
alternative feedstock to replace petroleum-derived chemicals and fuels. Lignocellulosic …

Cost-effective fractionation (pretreatment) of lignocellulosic biomass is necessary to enable
its large-scale use as a source of liquid fuels, bio-based materials and bio-derived …

This paper reviews the application of ionic liquids to the deconstruction and fractionation of
lignocellulosic biomass, in a process step that is commonly called pretreatment. It is divided …

Utilization of natural polymers has attracted increasing attention because of the consumption
and over-exploitation of non-renewable resources, such as coal and oil. The development of …

Shifting towards a circular carbon economy in the face of rising global population and
diminishing natural reserves represents one of the greatest challenges facing mankind. CO2 …

The cost of ionic liquids (ILs) is one of the main impediments to IL utilization in the cellulosic
biorefinery, especially in the pretreatment step. In this study, a number of ionic liquids were …

There have been considerable efforts to produce renewable polymers from biomass. Poly
(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is one of the most versatile bulk materials used in our daily …