Fabrication of transparent composites for non-invasive Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) analysis of modern art works

dc.contributor.authorAlyami, Abeer
dc.contributor.authorMirabile, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorIacopino, Daniela
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T12:57:12Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T12:57:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-31
dc.description.abstractSurface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has become an invaluable tool for the identification of colorants in artworks, due to its enhanced sensitivity and ability to quench fluorescence interference compared to Raman spectroscopy. However, the application of SERS to artwork analysis is still limited by its inherent invasiveness and the need for extraction procedures. In this work non-invasive transparent SERS probes were fabricated by self-assembly of Ag nanoparticles into glass and PDMS surfaces and used for identification of dye content in artistic drawings. SERS measurements were performed directly on the selected analytical surfaces by laser back illumination through the SERS probe. The non-invasiveness of fabricated probes was tested by optical microscopy. It was found that Ag nanoparticle/glass probes left no Ag nanoparticle residue after four consecutive depositions on sacrificial surfaces, whereas Ag nanoparticle/PDMS composites could be deposited and subsequently peeled off the analytical surfaces leaving no contamination traces. The high conformability, flexibility and transparency of Ag nanoparticle/PDMS composites enabled good adhesion to the surface of analyzed artistic drawings and therefore the generation of in situ SERS spectra from artistic drawings. The use of this method allowed identification of main dye components in real artworks comprising a red BIC ballpoint drawing and a Japanese woodblock print.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid87en
dc.identifier.citationAlyami, A., Mirabile, A. and Iacopino, D. (2019) 'Fabrication of transparent composites for non-invasive Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) analysis of modern art works', Heritage Science, 7(1), 87. (10pp.) doi: 10.1186/s40494-019-0332-4en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40494-019-0332-4en
dc.identifier.eissn2050-7445
dc.identifier.endpage10en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleHeritage Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9327
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::IA/646063/EU/NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART/NANORESTARTen
dc.rights©The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectRaman spectroscopyen
dc.subjectSERSen
dc.subjectNon-invasiveen
dc.subjectPaper artworken
dc.subjectBIC ballpoint pensen
dc.subjectJapanese wood printen
dc.titleFabrication of transparent composites for non-invasive Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) analysis of modern art worksen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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