Silk Road Art and Archaeology, 8, (2002), 272 p.

Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology

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The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology

Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology.

The first chemical analyses of artworks and archaeological artefacts were accomplished historically and reported by Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur [1–4] in France in a series of publications between 1716 and 1739 and by Sir Humphry Davy [5] in the UK in 1815, respectively: the former appeared in the Memoires Academie de Sciences, Paris, on pottery, glass and porcelains and the latter on wall...

Tissue Regeneration: A Silk Road

Silk proteins are natural biopolymers that have extensive structural possibilities for chemical and mechanical modifications to facilitate novel properties, functions, and applications in the biomedical field. The versatile processability of silk fibroins (SF) into different forms such as gels, films, foams, membranes, scaffolds, and nanofibers makes it appealing in a variety of applications th...

Olfaction: Chemical Signposts along the Silk Road

A recent study on the reception of olfactory cues by silkworm larvae illustrates how the convergence of genomic, physiological and ecological data promises to shed light on the origins and evolution of chemically mediated interactions between plants and insects.