New Cleaning Method for Artworks (IMAGE)

Wiley

New Cleaning Method for Artworks — Caption

Oil-in-water nanocontainers within an aqueous polymer network were effective for the low-impact selective cleaning of painted and gilded surfaces. Interactions with the polymer (black in the schematic illustration) did not alter the structure of the microemulsion nanodroplets (light blue and red) significantly. A photograph of an equilibrated mixture of the microemulsion and the polymer is shown.

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(C) Wiley-VCH 2009

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