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Hennequin, L.M., Levers, O., Hallett, J.P. (2019). Ionic Liquids as Solvents for the Production of Materials from Biomass. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_50-1

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