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Euro Green Chemistry 2019 Journal of Industrial and Environmental Chemistry | ISSN: 2591-7331 | Volume 3
CHEMISTRY AND
EURO GREEN CHEMISTRY
9th International Conference on
NOVELTIES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING OF CLEANING OF ARTE-
FACTS
Laura Micheli and Claudia Mazzuca
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
New methodology for characterization and cleaning procedure of paper artefact are based on electrochem-
ical sensors, in particular screen printed electrodes (SPE) coupled with a portable instrumentation. Elec-
trochemical biosensors, based on enzymes have been successfully applied to many fields from environment
to medicine from foods to pharmaceuticals. Health care is the main area of these applications; it is possible
nowadays monitor, for example, blood glucose levels in diabetes by glucose biosensors or detect reliably, the
urea level at home or in the hospital on patients with renal disease. Industrial applications of biosensors include
the monitoring of fermentation broths or food processing procedures by detecting concentrations of glucose
and/or other fermentative end products. Many of these biosensors are well suitable to be used for the char-
acterization of several important material used in cultural heritage such as paper, paintings, textiles, metals or
glass with the aim of determining their composition, health state and/or the effectiveness of conservation or
restoration interventions. Opportune biosensors could be indeed applied to determine both inorganic than
organic compounds present as components, pollutants or degradation products of artworks.
Laura Micheli et al., J Ind Environ Chem 2019, Volume 3 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7331-C2-011
Laura Micheli is an Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, since 2014. Her research activity is focalized on the devel-
opment of disposable electrochemical tools using bio/immunosensors and interference-free biosensors, based on Screen Printed
Electrodes (SPEs) for the determination of several analyte in food, in clinical and cultural heritage fields, using for their validation
spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods. She is involved in the development of new analytical methods for integrated
diagnostics and application of non-invasive protocols to the study of the materials of cultural heritage, with particular reference
to paper and wood artworks; assessment of conservation strategies in cultural heritage, with close collaboration with restorers of
library and archive artefacts in particular with ICRCPAL (Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivis-
tico e Librario) and ISC-CNR (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche). For her expertise, she was invited for
lecture at PhD course in new technologies in cultural heritage and as keynotes in international congress.
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