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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Robin D. Rogers, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Patrick S. Barber, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Chris S. Griggs, Vicksburg, MS (US);
Gabriela Gurau, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Xingmei Lu, Beijing, CN;
Suojiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
The Intellectual Property Office of Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are processes for providing a biopolymer from a biomass or source of chitin using ionic liquids. The processes involve contacting a biomass or source of chitin with an ionic liquid to produce a biopolymer comprising solution and precipitating the biopolymer from the solution with supercritical CO, gaseous CO, or combinations thereof.