Characterization of historic silk by polarized attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for informed conservation

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1242-1247

  Garside, Paul ^a   Lahlil, Sophia ^a   Wyeth, Paul ^a  

^a Textile Conservation Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATR; Attenuated total reflectance; Conservation; Crystallite orientation; Degradation; Polarized infrared spectroscopy; Silk

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEGRADATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FIBROUS MEMBRANES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROSTRUCTURE;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE (ATR); CRYSTALLITE ORIENTATION; MICRO-DESTRUCTIVE METHODOLOGIES; POLARIZED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

SILK;

FIBROIN; FIBROIN, SILKWORM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SILK; SILKWORM; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; FIBROINS; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; MATERIALS TESTING; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 27644470245     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/000370205774430855     Document Type: Article

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