https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328703003
Hyperspectral imaging of stone biofilms at the macroscopic scale
1 Department of Physics, Politecnico of Milan, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Milan, 20133, Italy
2 Department of Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico of Milan, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Milan, 20133, Italy
3 Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Via Mangiagalli 25, Milan, 20133, Italy
4 Department of Sciences of Antiquity, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, 00185, Italy
5 CNR-IFN, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy
* Corresponding author: alessia.candeo@polimi.it, cristianangelo.manzoni@cnr.it
Published online: 18 October 2023
The ability to observe traces of biological material on buildings and stone artworks is of particular importance in understanding how to best deal with them and maybe, in the future, even make use of biofilms for conservation science. We have identified hyperspectral imaging as a viable method for the efficient analysis of such biological materials. Thanks to the high throughput of our approach based on an interferometric method based on Fourier Transform, we were not only able to detect traces of biofilms on stone samples, but also to map in which areas these were found to have higher biological activity.
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