摘要

Ionic liquid is a new kind of green solvents, and cellulose is the most abundant biorenewable materials. As the nonderivative cellulose solvent, ionic liquid has gained increasingly considerable interest in the research of cellulose. The recent developments concerning the ionic liquids as cellulose solvents are reviewed, which deal with cellulose dissolution, regeneration and functionalization, as well as the use of cellulose/ionic liquid solvents for biocatalysis.