Biopolymers are a versatile and diverse class of materials that has won high interest due to
their potential application in several sectors of the economy, such as cosmetics, medical …

Leather artefacts, archaeological, historical or modern, are prone to microbiological attack
which could lead to irreversible degradation. Previous studies performed on new leather …

In this study, a collagen hydrogel using collagen exclusively produced in Romania, was
obtained by electron beam (e-beam) crosslinking. The purpose of our study is to obtain new …

The goal of this study was to obtain information about the thermal stability, composition and
molecular structure of four historical leather bookbindings dated between the 17th and 19th …

In this study we used an analytical approach based on complementary techniques that
targets all structural levels of collagen in leather to investigate how vegetable-tanned leather …

Background Ethnobiologists commonly analyze local knowledge systems related to plants,
animals, fungi, and ecosystems. However, microbes (bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, and …

Sustainability of leather lies in how the hide, a sustainable, naturally renewable, raw
material, is processed. Tanning chemistry has been a limiting factor for leather sustainability …

Leather artifacts, mainly composed of collagen and tanning agents, possess significant
historical importance. However, external factors could lead to the aging of such artifacts …

Ancient vegetable tanned leathers and parchments are very complex materials in which
both different manufacturing and deterioration processes make their study and chemical …

In this paper we aimed at the characterization of heat-induced changes on molecular
organization of collagen within parchment in very low relative humidity conditions …