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Assessment of the ageing of triterpenoid paint varnishes using fluorescence, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy

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The assessment of the influence of natural and artificial ageing on the spectrofluorescence of triterpenoid varnishes dammar and mastic is the focus of this work. Both Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscopy using attenuated total reflectance and Raman spectroscopy have been employed for complementary molecular analysis of samples. Synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy, excitation emission spectroscopy, and statistical analysis of data have been used to monitor changes in the optical properties of varnish samples. Assessment of naturally and artificially aged samples using excitation emission spectroscopy suggests that extensive exposure to visible light does not lead to easily appreciable differences in the fluorescence of mastic and dammar; cluster analysis has been used to assess changes, which occur with artificial ageing under visible light, indicating that differences in the fluorescence spectra of aged triterpenoids may be insufficient for their discrimination. The results highlight significant differences between the initial fluorescence of films of dammar and mastic and the fluorescence, which develops with ageing and oxidation, and specific markers, which change with ageing in FTIR and Raman spectra, have been identified.

Excitation emission spectra of films triterpenoid varnishes mastic and dammar have been recorded as a function of ageing. Using multivariate statistical analysis, dedrograms of contours of fluorescene excitation emission spectra are used to assess the differences in spectra of dammar and mastic

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This work was partially supported by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) within the project PRIN 2007 (prot. 2007AKK9LX).

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Austin Nevin, Daniela Comelli, Iacopo Osticioli, Gianluca Valentini & Rinaldo Cubeddu

  2. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Iacopo Osticioli

  3. Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica Giulio Natta, Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy

    Lucia Toniolo

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Nevin, A., Comelli, D., Osticioli, I. et al. Assessment of the ageing of triterpenoid paint varnishes using fluorescence, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem 395, 2139–2149 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-009-3005-4

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