Chemical Analysis in Cultural Heritage / / ed. by Luigia Sabbatini, Inez Dorothé van der Werf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Aceto, Maurizio,; Acquafredda, Pasquale,; Alves, Luís C.,; Anglos, Demetrios,; Araújo, Rita,; Bartolozzi, Giovanni,; Berg, Klaas Jan van den,; Bracci, Susanna,; Caggiani, Maria Cristina,; Candeias, Antono,; Cartechini, Laura,; Cejnar, Pavel,; Chen, Victor J.,; Colomban, Philippe,; Coutinho, Inês,; Degano, Ilaria,; Eramo, Giacomo,; Giannossa, Lorena Carla,; Gohde Sandbakken, Erika,; Gratuze, Bernard,; Guerra, Maria F.,; Hostettler, Kurt F.,; Hynek, Radovan,; Keulen, Henk van,; Kuckova, Stepanka,; Laborda, Francisco,; Machado, Andreia,; Mangone, Annarosa,; Medici, Teresa,; Melo, Maria J.,; Miliani, Costanza,; Nabais, Paula,; Phipps, Caitlyn E.,; Picollo, Marcello,; Pérez-Arantegui, Josefina,; Rosi, Francesca,; Sali, Diego,; Sandu, Irina Crina Anca,; Santrucek, Jiri,; Smith, Gregory D.,; Storevik Tveit, Eva,; Sutherland, Ken,; Vilarigues, Márcia,; Vitorino, Tatiana,; Werf, Inez Dorothé van der,
• HerausgeberIn: Sabbatini, Luigia,; van der Werf, Inez Dorothé,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 473 p.)

Chemical Analysis provides non invasive and micro-analytical techniques for the investigation of cultural heritage materials. The tools and techniques, discussed by experts in the field, are of universal, sensitive and multi-component nature.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of contributing authors
• Part I: Analytical Techniques
• 1. Overview of materials in Cultural Heritage
• 2. XRF technique
• 3. Inorganic mass spectrometry
• 4. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in heritage science
• 5. UV-Vis spectroscopy
• 6. Recent trends in the application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in Heritage Science: frommicro- to non-invasive FT-IR
• 7. Raman microspectroscopy for Cultural Heritage studies
• 8. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques for the characterisation of organic materials in works of art
• 9. Liquid chromatography: Current applications in Heritage Science and recent developments
• 10. Characterization of proteins in cultural heritage using MALDI–TOF and LC–MS/MS mass spectrometric techniques
• Part II: Selected Case studies
• 11. Wall paintings – diagnostic and archaeometric studies
• 12. From beams to glass: determining compositions to study provenance and production techniques
• 13. Physicochemical approaches to gold and silver work, an overview: Searching for technologies, tracing routes, attempting to preserve
• 14. Archaeometry of ceramic materials
• 15. Multi technique and multiscale approaches to the study of ancient and modern art objects on wooden and canvas support
• 16. The conservation of medieval manuscript illuminations: A chemical perspective
• 17. Disappearing ink! Unraveling the fading of a contemporary design object
• Index