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18.06.2012

BTV visits the Heritage and Conservation Unit of the CCiTUB

The BTV television channel visited the Scientific and Technological Centers of the UB in order to do a report about the Heritage and Conservation unit. The report was issued last June 12 in the "Connexió Barcelona" program of that channel.

In the report of BTV has participated Dra. Núria Ferrer, coordinator of the heritage and conservation unit, which explains knowledgeably to the public examples of the different tasks carried out in this unit. Among other things, in the program appears the analysis of a naive picture of the artist Maria Castillo with molecular spectroscopy technology, and various images obtained with the scanning electron microscopy technology.

The BTV report can be viewed in this link:
http://www.btv.cat/alacarta/connexio-barcelona/19345/

The analyses performed at the Heritage and Conservation Unit of the CCiTUB have various applications in this field, and uses multiple technological disciplines available at the CCiTUB in order to get the results. Some examples of Analyses are the characterization of pigments in paintings or sculptures, the study of the degradation of papers and parchments, analysis of mummified remains, etc ...

A list of applications and technologies used can be viewed in this link:
"Heritage and Conservation Industrial Solutions"