UV-Vis reflectance spectroscopy has been widely used as a non-invasive method for the
study of cultural heritage materials for several decades. In particular, FORS, introduced in …

Organic dyes extracted from plants, insects, and shellfish have been used for millennia in
dyeing textiles and manufacturing colorants for painting. The economic push for dyes with …

Dyes are among the most significant components in works of art and archaeological
findings. In the scientific examination of historical artefacts, the identification of natural …

Always very enlightening, the knowledge of the composition and production of ancient
cosmetics has attracted the interest of diverse characterisation studies on archaeological …

All countries around the world are blessed with particularly rich cultural heritage. Nowadays,
many researchers are exploring different methods for documentation, management, and …

Heritage materials are highly complex systems of unknown and intrinsically heterogeneous
compositions and unmonitored long-term modifications. In this microreview, we describe our …

After electronic excitation by ultraviolet or visible radiation, atoms and molecules can
undergo thermal or radiative deactivation processes before relaxing to the ground state …

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) has
become a powerful method to extract spatially resolved chemical information in complex …

Lakes based on Eosin-Y are extensively used by 19th century artists. Unfortunately, the
identification of these pigments in paintings is a difficult task because Eosin-Y degrades very …

Fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) is commonly used to non-invasively identify
madder-and cochineal-based pigments on works of art, but the significant shifts sometimes …