State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Chemistry

X-ray Powder Diffraction in Conservation Science: Towards Routine Crystal Structure Determination of Corrosion Products on Heritage Art Objects

Robert E. Dinnebier¹, Andrea Fischer², Gerhard Eggert², Tomče Runčevski¹, Nanna Wahlberg³

¹Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, ²State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, ³Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University

Modern high resolution X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) in the laboratory is used as an efficient tool to determine crystal structures of long-known corrosion products on historic objects.