Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 10(47), p. 2970
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc05057a
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Cellulose foams, or sponges, are produced from solutions in ionic liquids by the aqueous acid mediated decomposition of 1-alkyl-3- methylimidazolium-2-carboxylates, where the alkyl group and acid may be selected such that the by-product is the ionic liquid solvent: a by-productless foaming.