Institut photonique d'analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens (IPANEMA)

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The European photon-based institute of research on ancient materials (IPANEMA) is a centre for the development of advanced methodologies of material characterization in archaeology, paleo-environments, paleontology and cultural heritage, and the support of synchrotron-based research through external users hosted on the platform. To this aim, IPANEMA develops and provides advanced techniques for preparing specimens, to study artifacts and samples, and statistically analyze collected imaging datasets. The institute occupies a leading position owing to its original non-destructive approaches for collecting morphological, structural and chemical information on ancient materials.

The 20 latest publications

Title Authors Publication date Source
A multimodal study of smalt preservation and degradation on the painting “Woman doing a Libation or Artemisia” from an anonymous painter of the Fontainebleau School Clément de Mecquenem 02/01/23 European Physical Journal Plus
Improved discrimination of biogenic and diagenetic elements in Palaeolithic mammoth ivory and bone from Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of Southwestern Germany Katharina Müller 01/01/23 Quaternary International
Fur glowing under ultraviolet: in situ analysis of porphyrin accumulation in the skin appendages of mammals Mathieu Thoury, Pierre Guériau 01/01/23 Integrative Zoology
A new Early Triassic crinoid from Nevada questions the origin and palaeobiogeographical history of dadocrinids Pierre Guériau, Mathieu Thoury 01/01/23 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Proton beam irradiation induces invisible modifications under the surface of painted parchment Katharina Müller 12/01/22 Scientific Reports
Author Correction: Proton beam irradiation induces invisible modifications under the surface of painted parchment (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (113), 10.1038/s41598-021-02993-7) Katharina Müller 12/01/22 Scientific Reports
Possible modifications of parchment during ion beam analysis Katharina Müller 12/01/22 Heritage Science
X-ray Raman Scattering: A Hard X-ray Probe of Complex Organic Systems Rafaella Georgiou 08/10/22 Chemical Reviews
Disentangling the chemistry of Australian plant exudates from a unique historical collection Rafaella Georgiou, Serge X. Cohen, Loïc Bertrand 05/31/22 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Degradation of historical paper induced by synchrotron X-ray technical examination Mathieu Thoury 05/01/22 Cellulose
Micro to Nano: Multiscale IR Analyses Reveal Zinc Soap Heterogeneity in a 19th-Century Painting by Corot Victoria Beltran, Mathieu Thoury 02/22/22 Analytical Chemistry
Microcomputed tomography for discriminating between different forming techniques in ancient pottery: New segmentation method and pore distribution recognition Serge X. Cohen 02/01/22 Archaeometry
Lung evolution in vertebrates and the water-to-land transition Pierre Guériau 01/01/22 eLife
Novel markers to early detect degradation on cellulose nitrate-based heritage at the submicrometer level using synchrotron UV–VIS multispectral luminescence Mathieu Thoury 12/01/21 Scientific Reports
Combining X-ray excited optical luminescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopy for correlative imaging on the nanoscale Selwin Hageraats, Mathieu Thoury 11/01/21 Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Synchrotron X-ray microprobes: An application on ancient ceramics Maëva L’héronde 09/01/21 Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Deciphering the Chemistry of Cultural Heritage: Targeting Material Properties by Coupling Spectral Imaging with Image Analysis Mathieu Thoury, Serge X. Cohen 07/06/21 Accounts of Chemical Research
Soft X-ray nanospectroscopy for quantification of X-ray linear dichroism on powders Selwin Hageraats, Mathieu Thoury 07/01/21 Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Pushing Raman spectroscopy over the edge: purported signatures of organic molecules in fossil animals are instrumental artefacts Mathieu Thoury 04/01/21 BioEssays
A new tealliocaridid crustacean from the Late Carboniferous of North China and its biogeographic implications Pierre Guériau 01/01/21 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Number of publications of the laboratory by scientific field (2016-2021)

Every paper can be classified in one or more scientific fields. The figure below shows the lab's number of publications in each scientific field, according to the ASJC classification (Elsevier)