Conservation Science for the Cultural Heritage

General Considerations: On materials and artefacts.- Separation Techniques: High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Gas Chromatography (GC).- Capillary Electrophoresis.- Identification Techniques I: Imagine techniques.- The role of microscopy techniques in the study of cultural heritage materials.- Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy.- Solid state NMR.- Identification Techniques II: X-ray techniques and X-ray fluorescence with portable systems.- The Small Angle Scattering technique: an effective tool in the structural investigation of archaeologically relevant specimens.- Energy dispersive X-ray diffraction in cultural heritage science: The winning duo of structural and elemental analysis.- Particle induced X-ray emission spectroscopy in conservation science.- Atomic absorption spectroscopy in conservation science.- Thermal analysis techniques.- Applying the Techniques on Materials I: Identification of natural dyes in 13th Century textiles by HPLC-DAD detection.- Identification of natural dyes by RP-HPLC-DAD and natural dyeing procedures.- Liquid chromatographic analysis of ancient Egyptian organic material.- Binding media identification in art objects by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.- FT Infrared Spectroscopy as an identification tool in polychrome artefact studies.- Solid state NMR to characterize paper and parchment samples from a 16th century book.- Case studies on textile studies with Scanning Electron Microscopy.- Physicochemical methods of analysis for the study of archaeological textiles.- Identification of purple by means of Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography /Mass Spectrometry.- Applying the Techniques on Materials II: The application of back-scattered scanning electron microscopy to unravel building stone decay mechanisms in urban environments.- Application of microscopy, X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and stable-isotope geochemistry in provenance determination ofthe white marbles used in the ancient Great Theatre of Larisa, Thessaly, Greece.- Case studies: Investigation of mortars by Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy.- Mortars-Thermal analysis.- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy measurements for the corrosion behaviour evaluation of epoxy - (organo) clays nanocomposite coatings.- Study of Vatican masterpieces.- Laser applications in cultural heritage preservation.