Raman Spectroscopy—Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 872
Special Issue Editor
Interests: laser spectroscopy; laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS); Raman spectroscopy; laser-induced fluorescence; optical coherence tomography (OCT); thermography, holography, characterization of materials of cultural heritage; laser analytical application; development of portable instrumentation for cultural heritage
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Dear Colleagues,
Heritage science has become widely used instead of the term of conservation science or preservation science. It is an interdisciplinary domain of the scientific study of cultural heritage. Many analytical techniques have been well developed today for cultural heritage studies. Raman spectroscopy is one of them and is an established, versatile, and quasi-indispensable tool for the molecular investigation of cultural heritage materials in a non-destructive way. Raman spectroscopy is applied at an increasing rate to investigate organic/inorganic materials of archaeological objects or artworks, such as minerals, gems, organic and inorganic pigments and their degradation products, binding media, varnishes, plastics, glass, ceramics, conservation treatments, etc.
Recently, many other variations of Raman spectroscopy have also been implemented, including resonance Raman and stimulated Raman. The technique becomes popular in the research for sampling modalities, data processing, and instrumentation, aiming to apply to investigate the archaeological objects or artworks.
Raman spectroscopy offers several advantages for bulk and micro analysis. Additionally, further to analysis in the laboratory, several mobile Raman spectrometers have been proposed by researchers. The combination of Raman spectroscopy with other, tiny/non-destructive analytical techniques has become available for the examination of cultural heritage objects. Through such development of instrumentation, it is possible to obtain more information from the object under examination and to better understand works of art and archaeology.
Dr. Xueshi Bai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Raman spectroscopy
- Combination of spectroscopic techniques
- Resonance Raman
- Stimulated Raman
- Sampling modalities
- Data processing
- Instrumentation
- Cultural heritage materials
- Bulk/micro-Raman spectroscopy
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