• Title of article

    Novel TEM Microscopy and Electron DiffractionTechniques to Characterize Cultural Heritage Materials : From Ancient Greek Artefacts to Maya Mural Paintings

  • Author/Authors

    Nicolopoulos, Stavros NanoMEGASSprl - BlvdEdmondMachtens - Brussels, Belgium , Das, ParthaP. NanoMEGASSprl - BlvdEdmondMachtens - Brussels, Belgium , Pérez, AlejandroGómez NanoMEGASSprl - BlvdEdmondMachtens - Brussels, Belgium , Zacharias, Nikolaos DepartmentofHistory - ArchaeologyandCulturalResourcesManagement - UniversityofthePeloponnese - Kalamata, Greece , Cuapa, SamuelTehuacanero InstitutodeFísica - CircuitodelaInvestigacións/n - UNAM - Cd.Universitaria - Coyoacán - MéxicoD.F., Mexico , Alatorre, JesúsAngelArenas InstitutodeFísica - CircuitodelaInvestigacións/n - UNAM - Cd.Universitaria - Coyoacán - MéxicoD.F., Mexico , Mugnaioli, Enrico CenterforNanotechnologyInnovation @ NEST - IstitutoItalianodiTecnologia - PiazzaSanSilvestro - Pisa, Italy , Gemmi, Mauro CenterforNanotechnologyInnovation @ NEST - IstitutoItalianodiTecnologia - PiazzaSanSilvestro - Pisa, Italy , Rauch, EdgarF. SIMaP - GrenobleINPCNRSUJF - Saint-Martin-d’HèresCedex, France

  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    14
  • Abstract
    Tounderstandin-depthmaterialproperties,manufacturing, andconservationinculturalheritageartefacts,thereisastrongneedforadvancedcharacterizationtoolsthatenableanalysisdowntothenanometricscale. Transmissionelectronmicroscopy(TEM)andelectrondiffraction(ED)techniques,like3DprecessionelectrondiffractiontomographyandASTAR phase/orientationmapping,areproposedtostudyculturalheritagematerialsatnanoscale.Inthiswork,weshowhowelectroncrystallographyinTEM helpstodetermineprecisestructuralinformationandphase/orientationdistributionofvariouspigmentsinculturalheritagematerialsfromvarioushistoricalperiodslikeGreekamphorisks,Romanglasstesserae,andpre-HispanicMayamuralpaintings.SuchTEM-basedmethodscanbeanalternativetosynchrotrontechniquesandcanallowdistinguishingaccuratelydifferentcrystallinephasesevenincasesofidenticalorveryclosechemicalcompositionsatthenanometricscale.
  • Keywords
    NovelTEMMicroscop , ElectronDiffractionTechniques , CharacterizeCulturalHeritageMaterials , FromAncientGreekArtefact , MayaMuralPaintings , TEM
  • Journal title
    Scanning
  • Serial Year
    2019
  • Full Text URL
    downloads.hindawi.com/journals/scanning/2019/4870695.pdf
  • Record number

    2613428

    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=10&DC=2613428