Characterisation of historic plastics using terahertz timedomain spectroscopy and pulsed imaging

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 403, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1405-1414

  Pastorelli, Gianluca ^a   Trafela, Tanja ^b   Taday, Phillip F ^c   Portieri, Alessia ^c   Lowe, David ^c   Fukunaga, Kaori ^d   Strlič, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degradation; Heritage science; Polymers; Terahertz pulsed imaging; Terahertz time domain spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY; DEGREE OF BRANCHING; HERITAGE SCIENCE; INORGANIC FILLERS; INTEGRAL PART; PHENOL FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; POLYMER INDUSTRIES; POLYMER MATERIALS; PULSED IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; ESTERS; FILLERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENOLS; PLASMONS; PLASTICIZERS; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84861227459     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-5931-9     Document Type: Article

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