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Cultural heritage – research into innovative solutions and methods for historic wood conservation
2016 - IRG/WP 16-10874
Nowadays, interdisciplinary knowledge, tools and techniques are increasingly used to protect and conserve monuments representing our cultural heritage. This is of great importance especially in case of conservation and restoration of wooden historic artefacts which, as a result of physical, chemical and biological corrosion, have lost their technical, aesthetic and decorative properties. If those ...
M Broda, B Mazela
Influence of organosilicon compounds and nanocellulose treatment on dimensional stability of waterlogged elm wood
2017 - IRG/WP 17-10891
Commonly used agents for waterlogged wood consolidation (including the most popular polyethylene glycol) have proved ineffective and even dangerous to the preserved objects, jeopardising their integrity. Finding new, effective alternatives for safe preservation of wooden cultural heritage is therefore of key importance. The future conservation agents should, first and foremost, provide the integri...
M Broda, B Mazela, I Dąbek, A Dutkiewicz, H Maciejewski, R Markiewicz, M Grzeszkowiak, S Jurga