The X-ray irradiation as disinfection treatment: the state-of-the-art

Cristina Cicero, Monia Vadrucci, Claudia Mazzuca, Leonardo Severini, Fulvio Mercuri, Ugo Zammit, Noemi Orazi

Abstract

Collagen-based materials constitute a significant part of the archival and library heritage. Among all the animal skin-derived substrates, parchment was the principal writing support employed in the western world until the invention and diffusion of paper and printing. However, parchment can suffer biodeterioration processes if preserved under altered conditions. Recently, the possibility of using X-ray irradiation to respond to the demand for new effective and green methods for the mass disinfection of the archival and library heritage has opened up new and interesting perspectives. Different studies have been carried out to characterise eventually induced deterioration as well as the effectiveness of the irradiation treatment employed for disinfection purposes on different series of samples. In particular, modern parchment samples before and after the irradiation treatment, artificially aged parchment and historical and natural biodeteriorated parchment have been investigated after being exposed to the irradiation treatment.<BR />In the present work, a brief review and some new results and perspective have been presented.

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10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.048

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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