Beyond the Surface: Novel Non-destructive Techniques to Explore Works of Art
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2021) | Viewed by 16618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design, development, and application of instruments for the non-invasive diagnostics of works of art; multispectral imaging (UV-VIS-NIR, THz); OCT (optical coherence tomography); 3D survey; NLOM (nonlinear optical microscopies)
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Interests: non-invasive diagnostics of works of art; multispectral analysis; VIS-NIR spectroscopy; 3D survey; optical coherence tomography; NLO microscopies; photo-acoustics
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Dear Colleagues,
Many are the new techniques that have entered the cultural heritage (CH) field, often coming from other fields, mainly biomedicine. Their application, even though not straightforward due to the frailness, shape, and polychromies of most works of art, has proven useful for the characterization of the materials composing those objects. Traditional technologies available for studying most artworks rely on the use of radiation ranging from X-rays to the infrared. The use of other probes, such as neutron beams, synchrotron or THz radiation, to name a few, has advanced greatly over the last twenty years, enabling a new phenomenon to be exploited. To date, such methodologies have been underutilized by the heritage science community but show great potential in disclosing what is not visible to the naked eye. Due to the growing awareness of the importance of not altering the analyzed object, the intrinsic non-invasiveness of most of these methods make them particularly suited for artwork diagnostics, thus avoiding the need of microsampling.
The variety of artistic materials often makes the use of a single technique insufficient: a multianalytical approach supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts is crucial for a comprehensive knowledge and the interpretation of the results. This holistic approach, while enhancing the quality of the results, raises the problem of handling a huge and complex amount of data, of storing and making them available to the heritage science community.
The primary purpose of this Special Issue is to create a collection of cutting-edge techniques for the study of CH objects, and to point out the fruitfulness of an integrated survey based on a multidisciplinary approach. The goal is to provide a suite of new tools to reliably understand the materials/composition/structure of an artwork.
Dr. Raffaella Fontana
Dr. Alice Dal Fovo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Non-linear optical (NLO) techniques
- THz spectroscopy
- Photo-acoustic techniques
- Neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation
- Nuclear–magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Computed tomography (CT)
- Muon tomography (MT)
- Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI)
- Infrared thermography
- 3D survey and reconstruction techniques
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