Chemical and Physical Methods for the Cultural Goods Conservation

The course aims to provide a specific information about the main physico chemical methods that allow a characterization of crafts, produced with materials of biological and/or technological origin, the relevant modification related to their aging and/or to external factors, like atmospheric insults, chemical and microbiological aggression, as well as to damages produced by an inadequate conservation.

The student becomes familiar with physical properties used as parameters to evaluate the conservation and/or establish the restoration criteria of art crafts, with particular emphasis to thermodynamics, kinetics, rheology, spectroscopy, various kinds of microscopy and image analysis.