Cellulose Solvents: For Analysis, Shaping and Chemical Modification

Content: CONTENTS; APPROACHES FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF CELLULOSE; 1. Cellulose Solvents - Remarkable History, Bright Future; TIM LIEBERT; 2. Design of Polar Ionic Liquids To Solubilize Cellulose without Heating; YUKINOBU FUKAYA, KENSAKU HAYASHI, SEUNG SEOB KIM AND HIROYUKI OHNO; 3. Advances in Aqueous Cellulose Solvents; ANG LUE AND LINA ZHANG; 4. Molten Inorganic Salts as Reaction Medium for Cellulose; S. FISCHER AND K. THUMMLER; 5. Dimethyl Sulfoxide and Ammonium Fluorides - Novel Cellulose Solvents; THOMAS HEINZE AND SARAH KOHLER; INTERACTION OF SOLVENTS WITH CELLULOSE; 6. Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Properties of Ionic Liquids and Their Effect on Cellulose Solubility; M. SELLIN, B. ONDRUSCHKA AND A. STARK; 7. On the Specific Behaviour of Native Cellulose Fibers upon Dissolution; N. LE MOIGNE AND P. NAVARD; 8. Side Reactions in the System Cellulose/1-Alkyl-3-methyl-imidazolium Ionic Liquid; MICHAEL SCHREMS, GERALD EBNER, FALK LIEBNER, ERNST BECKER, ANTJE POTTHAST AND THOMAS ROSENAU; 9. Cellulose Solubility: Dissolution and Analysis of "Problematic" Cellulose Pulps in the Solvent System DMAc/LiCl; UTE HENNIGES, SONJA SCHIEHSER, THOMAS ROSENAU AND ANTJE POTTHAST; 10. Comparison of Solution-State Properties of Cellulose Dissolved in NaOH/Water and in Ionic Liquid (EMIMAc); T. BUDTOVA, M. EGAL, R. GAVILLON, M. GERICKE, T. HEINZE, T. LIEBERT, C. ROY, K. SCHLUFTER AND P. NAVARD; 11. Aspects of the Interaction of Native and Synthetic Polymers with Direct Dissolving Liquids; B. KOSAN, K. SCHWIKAL, S. HESSE-ERTELT, A. NECHWATAL, F. HERMANUTZ AND F. MEISTER; 12. Effect of Enzymatic Treatment on Solubility of Cellulose in 7.6%NaOH-Water and Ionic Liquid; PETER ROSENBERG, TATIANA BUDTOVA, MONIKA ROM AND PEDRO FARDIM; MODIFICATIONS OF CELLULOSE USING SOLVENTS; 13. Non-Halide Ionic Liquids for Solvation, Extraction, and Processing of Cellulosic Materials; MICHAEL HUMMEL, GERHARD LAUS, ALEXANDER SCHWARZLER, GINO BENTIVOGLIO, EGON RUBATSCHER, HOLGER KOPACKA, KLAUS WURST, VOLKER KAHLENBERG, THOMAS GELBRICH, ULRICH J. GRIESSER, THOMAS RODER, HEDDA K. WEBER,; HERWIG SCHOTTENBERGER AND HERBERT SIXTA; 14. Properties of Cellulose/TiO2 Fibers Processed from Ionic Liquids; MIRELA L. MAXIM, NING SUN, RICHARD P. SWATLOSKI, MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN, ADAM G. HARLAND, ANWARUL HAQUE, SCOTT K. SPEAR, DANIEL T. DALY AND ROBIN D. ROGERS; 15. Novel Cellulose Products Prepared by Homogeneous Functionalization of Cellulose in Ionic Liquids; SUSANN DORN, MICHAEL SCHOBITZ, KERSTIN SCHLUFTER AND THOMAS HEINZE; 16. Dissolution of Cellulose in Ionic Liquids and Its Application for Cellulose Processing and Modification; LIU CHUANFU, SUN RUNCANG, ZHANG AIPING AND LI WEIYING; 17. Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids as Solvents for Cellulose Chemistry; JURGEN VITZ, TINA ERDMENGER AND ULRICH S. SCHUBERT; 18. Structure-Property Relationship of Cellulose Ethers - Influence of the Synthetic Pathway on Cyanoethylation; B. VOLKERT, W. WAGENKNECHT AND M. MAI; 19. Opportunities with Wood Dissolved in Ionic Liquids; HAIBO XIE, ILKKA KILPELAINEN, ALISTAIR KING, TIMO LESKINEN, PAULA JARVI AND DIMITRIS S. ARGYROPOULOS; 20. Advances in Cellulose Solvent- and Organic Solvent-Based Lignocellulose Fractionation (COSLIF); Y.-H. PERCIVAL ZHANG, ZHIGUANG ZHU, JOE ROLLIN AND NOPPADON SATHITSUKSANOH; INDEXES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX