Recent Advances in Polymers Applied to the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage: Innovative Materials, Applications, and Strategies
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2023) | Viewed by 3108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: research and assessment concerning stained glass and architectural glass; conservation of stained glass and vessel glass; conservation education; heritage research; heritage education; contemporary glass art
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The conservation of cultural heritage objects often involves treatments such as consolidation, applying new protective layers to prevent further damage, and re-adhering detached parts or removing dirt/deposits or deteriorated coatings. In all of these treatments, polymers are extensively present and provide variable choices for conservators: their high versatility allows them to be combined with other materials and to be applied in a wide range of conditions; thus, related treatments can be adapted to several type of surfaces and materials. However, their use requires an accurate knowledge of their chemical composition, properties, degradation pathways, and interactions with other compounds in order to avoid the additional degradation of the materials to be treated.
The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together conservator-restorers and conservation scientists to share their advances in new polymeric materials or novel methodologies applied to conservation treatments, expanding the knowledge on these compounds and helping to improve the safeguarding of cultural heritage objects. In this respect, this Special Issues welcomes original and review articles including—but not limited to—the following topics:
- Cultural heritage conservation;
- Coatings;
- Varnishes;
- Consolidants;
- Adhesives;
- Gel cleaning;
- Colloids;
- Polymer characterization;
- Polymer stability.
Dr. Joost Caen
Dr. Victoria Beltran
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- gel cleaning
- colloids
- polymers
- coatings
- varnishes
- consolidants
- adhesives
- cultural heritage conservation
- cultural heritage restoration
