Wood is one of the most valuable and abundant renewable materials. Development of wood-
based advanced products comprises an important and exciting area of research. In recent …

Frescoes and icons show analogies in terms of defects, both present layer-to-layer
detachments and delaminations and surface cracks; the aim of this work is to develop a …

The effects of a Q-switched Nd: YAG laser irradiation on a group of supports, painted with six
different inorganic pigments, was investigated. The pigments were chosen from among the …

For the laser ablation of crust on historical sandstone samples contaminated due to
prolonged interaction with the environment, and also for specimens covered by artificial …

Varnish removal from easel paintings is a restoration procedure that is regularly undertaken
by cultural heritage conservators. In very few cases, traditional methods (chemical and …

The mechanism of matrix-assisted resonant infrared laser ablation of frozen aqueous and
methanol solutions of polyethylene glycol was investigated by time-resolved plume …

The present work originates by a recent study on the uncovering of a scalar trend for the
spectral characteristics related to the oxidation/crosslinking in an artificially aged resin film. It …

Propagation of stress waves into polymer substrates undergoing UV laser ablation has been
studied by means of laser Doppler vibrometry technique. The measurements acquired far …

Curators have developed preventive conservation strategies and usually try to control the
temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) variations in the museum rooms to stabilise the …

Curators have developed preventive conservation strategies and usually try to control the
temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) variations in the museum rooms to stabilise the …