Royal Society of Chemistry, Energy & Environmental Science
DOI: 10.1039/c5ee03051j
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Extractive ammonia pretreatment converts crystalline cellulose Iβ to a highly digestible cellulose IIII and selectively extracts up to ∼45% of the lignin from lignocellulosic biomass with near-quantitative retention of all polysaccharides.