Pretreatment of microcrystalline cellulose by ultrasounds: effect of particle size in the heterogeneously-catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose

Qinghua Zhang,a Maud Benoit, Karine De Oliveira Vigier, Joël Barrault, Gwenaëlle Jégou, Michel Philippe and François Jérôme*

Green Chem., 2013,15, 963-969

DOI: 10.1039/C3GC36643J

Received 17 Oct 2012, Accepted 31 Jan 2013

First published online 13 Feb 2013

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/GC/C3GC36643J#!divAbstract