Since the papyri, cellulose has played a significant role in human culture, especially as
paper. Nowadays, this ancient product has found new scientific applications in the …

Microbial activity has an important impact on the maintenance of cultural heritage materials,
owing to the key role of microorganisms in many deterioration processes. In order to …

Among hydrocolloids, gellan is one of the most studied polysaccharides due to its ability to
form mechanically stable gels. Despite its long-standing use, the gellan aggregation …

Tissue engineering of human fetal osteoblast cells was investigated on gelatin‐
hydroxyapatite (HA), crosslinked, electrospun oriented fiber scaffolds at the different HA …

Despite controlled relative humidity in archives and private collections, fungi are a
widespread cause of biodeterioration of cinematographic films and historic photographs …

This study is one of the few investigations which analyze albumen prints, perhaps the most
important photographic heritage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The chemical …

Microgel particles have emerged in the past few years as a favorite model system for
fundamental science and for innovative applications ranging from the industrial to …

NMR spectroscopy has become an experimental technique widely used in food science.
The experimental procedures that allow precise and quantitative analysis on different foods …

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy is increasingly used in many fields of research. For
strongly absorbing materials with refraction index close to 1, optical parameters at terahertz …

We report a systematic computational investigation on the electronic and optical properties
of the principal chromophores found in bacterial cellulose (BC). In particular, we focus on the …