Swollen Cell Walls (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Swollen Cell Walls

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These confocal fluorescence images of a switchgrass plant cell wall show (a) before pretreatment with the EmimAc ionic liquid and (b) 10 minutes after treatment, in which the cell wall has swollen in size, a prelude to its dissolution.

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Blake Simmons and Seema Singh

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