The water-based paints now frequently used for house painting still contain small amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), with the potential to exacerbate symptoms of asthma. Because of these potential problems and environmental concerns, some manufacturers have produced paints with no VOC content. We wished to compare the effects on asthmatics of conventional water-based paint and the ne...

Seven artworks representing the diversity of paints used around 1960s and created by German Italian painters (J. Albers, A. Bonalumi, L. Boille, T. Scialoja M. Schifano) were studied on-site at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome) with mobile instruments. We present a methodology based on Specular Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy (SR-FTIR) adapted to unvarnished paintings. Complementary me...

The object of research is the humidity regime in external enclosing structures coated with paints different vapor permeability: ash-silicate, silicate, acrylic and silicone. purpose to evaluate effect a paint-and-varnish coating based on developed sol-silicate paint change moisture wall, depending type construction. Comparison effectiveness use various varnishes carried out. properties for fini...

In the current paper, the effect on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of two commercial acrylic-based paints were compared: one (Paint A) for indoor applications, the other (Paint B) for indoor/outdoor applications. Both were applied on an inert and on a real mortar substrate. The possibility of Paint B to passively improve IAQ was also investigated when adding highly porous adsorbent fillers, both as a...