September mornings #1 – RAA2013.

The 7th InternationalCongress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology ended last Friday, 6^th September 2013 in the pleasant context of Ljubljana castle.  

Since the first edition in Paris in 2007, it is a biennial important occasion for all the “ramanists” dealing with cultural heritage or, as in my case, vice versa.

The excellent organization guided by Dott. Polonca Ropret, of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia allowed, both in the oral and in the poster sessions, to range within the various application fields of this versatile technique (lacques, varnishes, minerals, fossils, pigments, pottery, metals, bio-deterioration, forensics etc etc…).

Furthermore it gave place, in two dedicated sessions, to the subjects on which the concentration is focusing in the present and and that will more and more develop in the future, that are SERS applications (Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy) and portability of instrumentation/ non-destructivity of the analyses.

One of the attractiveness of this meeting – and of others of the same sort- lays in the fact that researchers of a very specific field can meet: not simply archeometry, but Raman for cultural heritage! This leads, as in this case, to a highly fruitful exchange of ideas and problems among the participants!

See you for the next edition, in 2015!

To learn more:

Selections of the works presented at the meetings are collected every two years in special issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.