Smart Portable Sensors for Environment and Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 16097
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrochemical sensors; nanomaterials; nanocomposites; portable devices for environmental monitoring and cultural heritage; chemically modified electrodes
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the need to develop non-invasive materials, specifically designed and produced for the restoration and conservation of (indoor/outdoor) Cultural Heritage, exhibiting interesting features such as eco-sustainability and biocompatibility (especially toward “end-users”, such as chemists, materials scientists, restorers, and conservator scientists), undoubtedly represents a very important challenge in the field of art work preservation and development (around the world).
This scientific challenge, provides three important goals to be achieved:
- the first one concerns the discovery of new green chemistry synthetic routes for the mass production of eco-friendly, non-invasive and highly biocompatible nanostructured materials, dedicated to the restoration, consolidation and preservation of art work objectives and surfaces;
- the second goal concerns the smart fabrication of new miniaturized wireless sensors, assembled with selective and specific nanomaterials, especially suitable for in situ diagnosis of the conservation status of Cultural Heritage;
- the third one concerns the assembly of new movable actuators, based on nanostructured materials, able to in loco release, with controlled release mechanisms, the restoration and consolidation green chemical agents, directly applied to cultural heritages.
The aim of this Special Issue is to make scientists think about materials and portable devices, exclusively for cultural heritage, capable of in situ working, minimizing any risk factor and interfering factors, which are the main causes of damages, for art work objectives/surfaces.
This Special Issue could provide a new proof of concept for a portable/movable lab (laboratory), assembled with miniaturized sensors and actuators, to perform diagnosis and restoration/conservation procedures, directly in situ, for Cultural Heritage surfaces.
Dr. Federica Valentini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- portable sensors
- movable actuators for in situ restoration/conservation
- eco-friendly and highly biocompatible nanomaterials
- portable Lab (Laboratory)
- integrated nanostructured devices