caa a22 4500 463213262 CHVBK 20180405153148.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00339-007-4218-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00339-007-4218-z Crystallinity and degradation of silk: correlations between analytical signatures and physical condition on ageing [Elektronische Daten] [P. Garside, P. Wyeth] Adequately characterising the physical condition of historic textiles, and understanding the microstructural changes that occur in these materials, is essential when considering appropriate conservation, display and storage strategies. Our work has concentrated on developing non-destructive or micro-destructive methodologies that will permit this for one of the most important historic fibres, silk. We have been able to demonstrate that correlations can be drawn between the physical deterioration of silk samples and certain measurable spectroscopic, chromatographic and chemical signatures. Understanding the way in which these signatures arise then allows the microstructural changes within the crystalline and amorphous content of the fibres to be investigated and more fully interpreted. The techniques developed by our group and by other researchers in the field include polarised FTIR-ATR (Pol-ATR) and near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, HPLC microsampling analyses and pH measurements. The results of these analyses correlate to measurable mechanical properties and thus suggest that the physical state of historic silk fabrics might be adequately characterised for conservation purposes by such indirect micromethodology. Springer-Verlag, 2007 Garside P. AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, Winchester Campus, Park Avenue, SO23 8DL, Winchester, UK aut Wyeth P. Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, Winchester Campus, Park Avenue, SO23 8DL, Winchester, UK aut Applied Physics A Springer-Verlag 89/4(2007-12-01), 871-876 0947-8396 89:4<871 2007 89 339 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-007-4218-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-007-4218-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Garside P. AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, Winchester Campus, Park Avenue, SO23 8DL, Winchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wyeth P. Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, Winchester Campus, Park Avenue, SO23 8DL, Winchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Physics A Springer-Verlag 89/4(2007-12-01), 871-876 0947-8396 89:4<871 2007 89 339 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer