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  • Денис Прокуратов
  • Andrey Samokhvalov
  • Дмитрий Васильевич Панькин
  • Олег Сергеевич Верещагин
  • Николай Сергеевич Курганов
  • Анастасия Валерьевна Поволоцкая
  • Александр Анатольевич Шимко
  • Александра Александровна Михайлова
  • Roman Balmashnov
  • Анастасия Андреевна Ревегук
  • Olga Smolyanskaya
  • Dmitry Redka
  • Vjaceslavs Bobrovs
In this work lasers with micro-, nano-, pico- and femtosecond pulse durations were used to clean atmospheric corrosion products from the fragments of a 19th-century lead outdoor sculpture. The state of the surface was studied by optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. It was shown that for all lasers used there is no self-limiting cleaning effect, and the metal damage threshold is lower than the corrosion removal threshold. Using the XPS method, it has been demonstrated that the effect of turning a metallic lead surface blue after irradiation is associated with an interference effect in the PbO film. Raman spectroscopy indicated no phase changes in the corrosion layer after laser cleaning with 8 ns, 75 ps and 100 fs pulses, which makes these lasers useful for the layer-by-layer cleaning of archaeological objects.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to) 1293–1307
Number of pages15
JournalHeritage
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jan 2023

    Research areas

  • Raman spectroscopy, SEM, atmospheric corrosion, laser cleaning, lead

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