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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 96, Issue 12, Pages 2029-2039Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2011.09.002
Keywords
Historic paper; Hydrolysis; Oxidation; Viscometry; Colorimetry; Heritage science
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- Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands)
- AHRC [AH/H032606/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/H032606/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Paper degradation has been studied extensively over the past few decades from both the conservation and the material science perspectives. This review focuses on the quantifiable impacts of the environment and material composition, from the viewpoint of long-term storage of historic paper-based collections. Therefore, temperature, relative humidity and their variation, and pollution are of major interest while photoinitiated processes are covered only briefly. New experiments comparing the effects of the most abundant indoor pollutants (NO2, acetic acid and formaldehyde) and the effects of fluctuating temperature and relative humidity are also presented as part of the discussion. This work highlights the need for revision of the existing dose-response (damage) functions for paper and their further development. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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