Seminar on Nanotechnology for art Conservation

"Nanotechnology for Art Conservation"
Ford ITW Classroom, Northwestern University
October 28, 2010

Announcing the seminar:"Nanotechnology for Art Conservation",
co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  and the Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center of Northwestern University
(MRSEC), which will take place on Thursday, October 28, 2010, in the
ITW Room of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, 2133
Sheridan Road on Northwestern University's Evanston (IL) Campus.

This event is part of a continuing series of seminars on
conservation science, a part of the Art Institute of
Chicago/Northwestern University Collaborative Program in
Conservation Science supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The goal of these seminars is twofold: to educate scientists and
engineers on the opportunities and unsolved problems in conservation
science and to inform conservators, curators and conservation
scientists about the techniques and expertise available in science
and engineering which might be brought to bear on conservation
science problems

Participation is free, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation and the Materials Research Science and
Engineering Center of Northwestern University, but you need to
register in order to attend this seminar.

Please RSVP to mrc<-at->northwestern<.>edu by Friday, October 15, 2010.

Parking on the Northwestern Campus requires a permit; if you plan on
driving, please request a permit and map when you RSVP.  For more
information, you may call (847) 491-3606.

Program

    9:30            Registration and coffee

    10:00 am        Welcome
                    Katherine T. Faber
                    Northwestern University

    Session 1: Nanoprobes

    10:15 am        Richard P. Van Duyne
                    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
                    "SERS Nanosensors for Biomedical, Biowarfare and
                    Art Applications"

    10:50 am        Laura Fabris
                    Rutgers University, New Jersey, NJ
                    "Multifunctional Metal Nanoparticle Dimers for
                    Combined SERS-Based Imaging and Sensing, Cell
                    Targeting, and Drug Delivery"

    11:25 am        Julie Arslanoglu
                    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
                    "An Improved Method of Protein Localization in
                    Artworks through SERS Nanotag-Complexed
                    Antibodies"

    12:00 pm        Volker Rose
                    Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
                    "X-ray Microscopy at the Nanoscale"

    12:40 pm        Lunch break

    Session 2: Nanotechnology, ancient and modern

    2:15 pm         Russell R. Chianelli
                    University of Texas, El Paso,TX
                    "Structure of Organic/Inorganic Surface
                    Compounds: Azul Maya"

    2:50 pm         Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet
                    LADIR, CNRS, France
                    "Si-O Glasses and Fe-O Nano-Structured Phases In
                    Cultural Heritage Materials: Insights from Raman
                    Procedures"

    3:25 pm         Paul V. Braun
                    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
                    "Self-Healing and Mechanochromic Materials"

    4:00 pm         Coffee break

    Session 3: Nanotechnology for art conservation

    4:30            Piero Baglioni
                    Department of Chemistry, University of Florence,
                    Italy
                    "New Methodologies for the Conservation of
                    Cultural Heritage: Micellar Solutions,
                    Microemulsions and Hydroxide Nanoparticles"

    5:30            Concluding remarks

    Katherine T. Faber
    Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    Northwestern University
    2220 Campus Drive
    Evanston, IL 60208-3108
    847-491-2444
    Fax: 847-491-7820
    fcasad<-at->artic<.>edu

    Francesca Casadio, PhD
    Andrew W. Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist
    The Art Institute of Chicago
    111 South Michigan Ave.
    60603-6110 Chicago
    312-857-7647
    Fax: 312-541-1959
    fcasadio<-at->artic<.>edu


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