Piero Baglioni and colleagues at the University of Florence in Italy, have developed a novel nanofluid system that removes damaging coatings from wall paintings.
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Removal of acrylic coatings from works of art by means of nanofluids: understanding the mechanism at the nanoscale
Michele Baglioni, Doris Rengstl, Debora Berti, Massimo Bonini, Rodorico Giorgi and Piero Baglioni, Nanoscale, 2010,
DOI: 10.1039/c0nr00255k
They have used a novel system composed of water, SDS, 1-pentanol, ethyl acetate and propylene carbonate was recently formulated and successfully used to remove acrylic and vinyl/acrylic copolymers from Mesoamerican wall paintings in the archeological site of Cholula, Mexico.
