Cultural heritage is a crucial resource to increase our society's resilience. However,
degradation processes, enhanced by environmental and anthropic risks, inevitably affect …

Cultural Heritage is a crucial socioeconomic resource; yet, recurring degradation processes
endanger its preservation. Serendipitous approaches in restoration practice need to be …

Cultural heritage assets constitute a fundamental socioeconomic resource, but the actual
works of art need to be maintained, counteracting degradation processes, to transfer these …

Hypothesis Organic solvents are often used for cleaning highly water-sensitive artifacts in
modern/contemporary art. Due to the toxicity of most solvents, confining systems must be …

Macroporous gels find application in several scientific fields, ranging from art restoration to
wastewater filtration or cell entrapment. In this work, two-component sponge-like cryogels …

The development of “green” chemistry materials with enhanced properties is a central topic
in numerous applicative fields, including the design of polymeric systems for the …

Colloid science is contributing solutions to counteract the degradation of artifacts, favoring
their transfer to future generations. Advanced materials such as nanoparticles, coatings, gels …

Nanomaterials have permeated numerous scientific and technological fields, and have
gained growing importance over the past decades also in the preservation of Cultural …

Hypothesis Gels made from synthetic polymers have improved the cleaning of artifacts, but
there is the strong need to elaborate new systems through an all-green approach …

This article presents a thorough overview of gel-based cleaning methods used in art
conservation. It covers the evolution of traditional approaches and the development of …