Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
Part I Introduction 1
1 Organic Materials in Art and Archaeology 3 Maria Perla Colombini and Francesca Modugno
2 Overview of Mass Spectrometric Based Techniques Applied in the Cultural Heritage Field 37 Gianluca Giorgi
Part II Direct Mass Spectrometric Analysis 75
3 Direct Mass Spectrometric Techniques: Versatile Tools to Characterise Resinous Materials 77 Erika Ribechini
4 Direct Mass Spectrometry to Characterise Wax and Lipid Materials 97 Martine Regert
5 GALDI-MS Applied to Characterise Natural Varnishes and Binders 131 Patrick Dietemann and Christoph Herm
6 MALDI-MS Applied to the Analysis of Protein Paint Binders 165 Stepanka Kuckova, Radovan Hynek and Milan Kodicek
Part III Gas Chromatography/mass Spectrometry 189
7 GC/MS in the Characterization of Lipids 191 Maria Perla Colombini, Francesca Modugno and Erika Ribechini
8 GC/MS in the Characterisation of Resinous Materials 215 Francesca Modugno and Erika Ribechini
9 GC/MS in the Characterisation of Protein Paint Binders 237 Maria Perla Colombini and Gwénaëlle Gautier
10 SPME/GC-MS in the Characterisation of Terpenic Resins 261 Jean Bleton and Alain Tchapla
11 Py-GC/MS of Organic Paint Binders 303 Ilaria Bonaduce and Alessia Andreotti
12 Py-GC/MS of Natural and Synthetic Resins 327 Dominique Scalarone and Oscar Chiantore
Part IV Liquid Chromatography/mass Spectrometry 363
13 Characterization of Organic Natural Dyes by Electrospray Mass Spectrometry Coupled with HPLC and/or Capillary Electrophoresis 365 Katarzyna Lech, Katarzyna Połeć-Pawlak and Maciej Jarosz
Part V other MS-based Techniques 389
14 Compound-specific Stable Isotopes in Organic Residue Analysis in Archaeology 391 Richard P. Evershed
15 ToF-SIMS Study of Organic Materials in Cultural Heritage: Identification and Chemical Imaging 433 Vincent Mazel and Pascale Richardin
16 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for 14C Dating 459 Mariaelena Fedi
Index 483