Protective Coatings for Heritage Conservation: Development and Application
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface phenomenon; chemical processing; coatings; printing plates
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
By UNESCO’s definition, cultural heritage includes artefacts, monuments, and other sites that have a diversity of values including symbolic, historic, artistic, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological, scientific, and social significance. Cultural heritage objects are made of various materials and are therefore susceptive to various forms of degradation and deterioration. There are various causes of the cultural heritage object deterioration, most of them being connected with interactions with the surroundings, leading to biological, physical, and chemical processes of change. Due to its importance for the future, many investigations have been made to determine procedures, technologies, and materials that will diminish or prevent cultural heritage deterioration to some extent. One of the possible solutions is to apply a coating on the cultural heritage object. Coating as a process includes covering a surface with another substance. The coating processes are present in various fields and are intended to enhance the properties of the base materials (the one which is coated). In the case of cultural heritage, there is one major requirement—the applied coating should not cause significant changes in the object’s visual appearance, material properties, etc. With that in mind, this Special Issue tends to publish high-quality original papers dealing with the following:
- Protective coating development;
- Composites in cultural heritage preservation;
- Technologies for protective coatings application;
- Procedures for the application of coatings on cultural heritage objects;
- Procedures and test methods for the analysis of coatings on cultural heritage objects;
- Moisture barriers and coatings;
- Weather- and biological attack-resistant coating.
Dr. Tomislav Cigula
Dr. Olena Myronycheva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural heritage
- coatings
- material preservation
- composites
- coating technology
- deterioration
- degradation
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