The Nitrate Cellulose Negatives: Degradation Study via Chemometric Methods
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodological Part
2.1. Photographic Negatives
2.2. Raman Spectroscopy
2.3. IR Spectroscopy
2.4. Digital Photography
2.5. Chemometric Methods
2.5.1. Data Preprocessing
2.5.2. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
2.5.3. SVM Classification
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Raman and IR Spectroscopy
3.2. Chemometric Analysis
3.2.1. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Photographic Materials
3.2.2. Support Vector Machine Classification
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Povolotckaia, A.; Kaputkina, S.; Grigorieva, I.; Pankin, D.; Borisov, E.; Vasileva, A.; Kaputkina, V.; Dynnikova, M. The Nitrate Cellulose Negatives: Degradation Study via Chemometric Methods. Heritage 2024, 7, 4712-4724. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7090223
Povolotckaia A, Kaputkina S, Grigorieva I, Pankin D, Borisov E, Vasileva A, Kaputkina V, Dynnikova M. The Nitrate Cellulose Negatives: Degradation Study via Chemometric Methods. Heritage. 2024; 7(9):4712-4724. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7090223
Chicago/Turabian StylePovolotckaia, Anastasia, Svetlana Kaputkina, Irina Grigorieva, Dmitrii Pankin, Evgenii Borisov, Anna Vasileva, Valeria Kaputkina, and Maria Dynnikova. 2024. "The Nitrate Cellulose Negatives: Degradation Study via Chemometric Methods" Heritage 7, no. 9: 4712-4724. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7090223