Historical Synthetic Polymers: Recent Advances in the Characterization and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 November 2022) | Viewed by 31125
Special Issue Editors
Interests: conservation science; polymers in conservation; preservation of contemporary art and historic polymeric materials (HIPOMS); impact of manufacturing processes and formulations on the polymer's stability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plastics have been incredibly useful to us over the last century and are widespread in our heritage. Such artefacts are made of complex materials (with different formulations and production technologies) and have often an unknown history (functional use, storage, and exhibition).
Managing plastics collections, whether they include artworks, domestic items, or objects from the history of science and industry, require knowledge of polymer chemistry and physics to understand their formulations, their degradation pathways, and phenomena, as well as, based on scientific investigation, to suggest effective tailored preventive and active conservation treatments.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together conservators, conservation scientists, and collection managers, including the participants of the virtual conference Plastics in Peril—Focus on Conservation of Polymeric Materials in Cultural Heritage, to share their advances in analytical methods, analytical procedures, and preservation solutions based on laboratory studies applied to historical synthetic organic polymers (and/or samples representative of those). Authors are welcome to submit their latest results to Polymers, an internationally renowned, successful open access journal with an impact factor of 3.426 in the form of original full articles or reviews on this broad topic.
Dr. Joana Lia Ferreira
Dr. Marisa Pamplona
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Historical synthetic polymers
- Synthetic polymers applied to the conservation of cultural heritage
- Identification of matrix and additives
- Characterization of polymers
- Degradation mechanisms and phenomena
- Treatments effectiveness and durability
- Plastics preservation and collections’ management