Paleontology, archeology, and art history provide crucial information for the understanding
of human evolution throughout ages and its habits. Past animal and plant species are also …

Up to 70% of the oil paintings conserved in collections present metal soaps, which result
from the chemical reaction between metal ions present in the painted layers and free fatty …

The formation of metal soaps is a major problem for oil paintings conservators. The
complexes of either lead or zinc and fatty acids are the product of reactions between …

Over the last 10 or so years, developments in molecular se-condary ion mass spectrometry
(SIMS) have taken its capability into areas previously only demonstrated in dynamic SIMS …

The study of painted artworks using scientific methods is fundamental for understanding the
techniques used in their creation and their appropriate conservation. The ethical constraints …

The melanin pigments eumelanin (EM) and pheomelanin (PM), which are dark brown to
black and yellow to reddish-brown, respectively, are widely found among vertebrates. They …

Detectors are a key feature of the contemporary scientific approach to cultural heritage (CH),
both for diagnostics and conservation. INFN-CHNet is the network of the Italian National …

Applications of synchrotron X-ray nano-probes in the field of cultural heritage Page 1 CR
Physique 19 (2018) 575–588 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Comptes Rendus …

A historical self-portrait painted by Sir Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) has been studied with
fast-scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy using synchrotron radiation. One of the …

Time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF‐SIMS) imaging is a surface analysis
technique that identifies and spatially resolves the chemical composition of a sample with a …