Art Restoration
The most comprehensive range of analytical instrumentation for art restoration research and teaching.
Providing analytical instruments to help solve your most difficult art restoration problems. Whether your art restoration requirements require the analysis of constituents at the atomic level such as metals in paint, or the molecular level such as the color of paints; Thermo Scientific has a wide range of complimentary techniques to choose from.
Image analysis is available from a variety of techniques such as FTIR, Raman, UV-Vis, Fluorescence and Surface Analysis enabling characterization of very small to large surface areas.
UV-Vis: UV and Vis image analysis of larger surface areas. Color analysis of targeted areas of the art restoration item.
Fluorescence: Analysis of constituents that exhibit fluorescence such as varnishes used to coat the painted surface.
FTIR and Raman: Analysis of constituents at the molecular level including microscopic imaging.
AAS, ICP-ES, ICP-MS: Analysis of trace metals used in the original paints and subsequent paints and varnishes used to restore surfaces.
GC-MS: Analysis of trace inorganic and organic constituents representative of the paints used and the nature of the base material.
Surface analysis, XPS: Elemental analysis of Art Restoration surfaces and information related to the crystalline structure of the base materials.
