Publication Date:
2018-06-19
Description:
In the last years atmospheric plasma has gained an increasing interest in the field of Cultural Heritage. Isolated experimentations that yet generated interesting results have drawn the attention of a wider community working on coating removal, oxide reduction and sterilization applications. Thanks to this growing multidisciplinary interest, the EU funded in 2011 the PANNA project, which includes the atmospheric plasma as a novel cleaning tool for cultural heritage. Plasma cleaning has some advantages compared to standard techniques because it avoids the use of solvents, it is contactless and differently from laser it works through a surface chemical action and not with mechanical shock or local heating. Moreover, atmospheric plasma has already shown good results in reducing mode for the conversion of corroded metal surface layers and in oxidation mode for biological cleaning and organic layer removal. In order to fulfil the Cultural Heritage requirements a novel plasma t...
Print ISSN:
1757-8981
Electronic ISSN:
1757-899X
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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