Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 21(51), p. 4485-4487
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10249e
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The heat of dissolution of cellulose in one imidazolium acetate ionic liquid was determined experimentally. The value of −132 ± 8 J g−1 indicates that the dissolution is exothermal thus confirming energetically favourable cellulose–ionic liquid interactions but indicating that an increase in temperature does not thermodynamically favour the dissolution process.