Switchgrass Pretreatment (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Switchgrass Pretreatment

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These fluorescence images of a stem of switchgrass treated with EmimAc ionic liquid shows the section (a) before treatment (b) 20 minutes after treatment (c) 50 minutes after treatment and (d) two hours after treatment when the organized plant cell wall structure has been completely broken down.

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Blake Simmons and Seema Singh

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