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Ionic Liquids for Lignin Processing: Dissolution, Isolation, and Conversion

Md. Mokarrom Hossain A and Leigh Aldous A B
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A School of Chemistry, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: l.aldous@unsw.edu.au




Md. Mokarrom Hossain recently finished his M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2010), and Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea (2012). He now works as a Ph.D. student in the Aldous group at the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, researching lignin processing in ionic liquids.



Leigh Aldous obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (2007), before holding post-doctoral research fellow positions at the same institution and at the Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. He was appointed as a lecturer at the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, in 2011. His research focusses upon ionic liquids, electrochemistry, and physical chemistry.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 65(11) 1465-1477 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH12324
Submitted: 8 July 2012  Accepted: 31 July 2012   Published: 17 September 2012



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