Application of the Latest Progress in Materials Science and Nanotechnologies in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Artefacts
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2020) | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for heritage conservation; microemulsion cleaning agents; nanostructured stone consolidants; long-term preventive protection of heritage artefacts; protection against biodeterioration in an ecological context; photocatalysis for heritage conservation; heritage conservation and the protection of the environment
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Recent years have witnessed fascinating developments in various fields of materials science and the step-by-step transformation of scientific progress into novel technologies, which as a rule exhibit not only a substantially enhanced performance but are also friendly towards human health and the environment. The field of heritage conservation, with all its traditionalism and multidisciplinarity, also profited from this development. However, the specific features of this field have led to a considerable scattering of the literary sources and a lack of mutual information between all the relevant subjects.
This Special Issue should help to overcome these problems. It provides an opportunity to create a compendium of the novel methods, which will not only boost further scientific progress but also provide restorers and artists with a useful literary overview. It is focused on advanced solutions to fundamental conservation problems, the perceptions of which are often far ahead of their solutions.
I cordially invite you to submit your contribution to this issue, whose topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Cleaning, which is efficient, selective, as well as considerate, to the treated artifact
- Consolidation of a range of materials
- Long term preventive protection
- Protection against biodeterioration in an ecological context
- Methods suitable for heritage conservation in areas with extreme atmospheric conditions
- How to face climate change
- Heritage conservation and the protection of the environment.
Dr. Jiri Rathousky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Heritage conservation
- Materials science
- Novel technologies
- Multidisciplinarity
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