Coatings for Cultural Heritage: Cleaning, Protection and Restoration
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 11864
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the precious legacy of human beings with high historical, artistic and scientific values, cultural heritage carried the important information of human historical activities, reflecting the development and progress of world civilization. Therefore, studies of cultural heritage preservation play a key role in understanding human history, inheriting splendid nations culture, and safeguarding cultural diversity and creativity in the world. Due to natural and anthropogenic factors, heritage assets have deteriorated, and cleaning, protection and restoration are crucial measures aimed at their life continuation. In the process of preservation, the coatings should be paid particular attention as a research emphasis under the application of protective materials or advanced technologies/approaches on the heritage body, such as their compatibility, performance, stability, etc. Therefore, research on coatings for cultural heritage is an important issue to promote the process of heritage conservation.
We are pleased to invite you to provide your novel studies in the Special Issue of Coatings.
The aim of the Special Issue of Coatings on “Coatings for Cultural Heritage: Cleaning, Protection and Restoration” is to research related scientific problems involved coatings in the process of cleaning, protection and restoration for cultural heritage through original research papers and critical review articles.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Coatings for earthen sites, grottoes, stone and other immovable cultural heritage preservation and consolidation;
- Coatings for movable cultural relic in cleaning, restoration and preservation;
- Coatings modeling and evaluation;
- Compatibility of new protective materials from the coatings perspective;
- Application of new theory, methods, materials in cultural heritage preservation.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yumin Du
Guest Editor
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