1. Short- and long-term effect of radiation damage in cotton paper
- Author
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Anne-Laurence Dupont, Alice Gimat, Sebastian Schöder, Mathieu Thoury, Sabrina Paris-Lacombe, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche pour la Conservation des Collections (CRCC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dupont, Anne-Laurence, and Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
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[SHS.MUSEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology ,[CHIM] Chemical Sciences ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,[SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology - Abstract
International audience; The analysis of cultural heritage artefacts with ionizing radiation has rapidly increased in popularity over the last decades - in particular at synchrotron sources - leading to many fascinating new discoveries. However, the damage inflicted to the materials under study during the irradiation is still largely unknown. Organic samples, such as paper, are especially vulnerable to degradation by X-rays. In this work we quantify the radiation damage on a molecular level and show that the chemical reactions triggered promote cellulose degradation and continueto alter the material for several months after the irradiation took place.
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- 2021