Innovation — biological and chemical damage

Analyzing biological and chemical damage on 20th-century construction materials by University of the Basque Country Dr Iratxe Ibarrondo using portable high-resolution spectroscopic techniques to analyze the impact on 20th-century construction materials of the environment and biological conditions in the surrounding area. Credit: Iratxe Ibarrondo/UPV/EHU. It is customary for the research conducted in the IBeA research group in the UPV/EHU's department of Analytical Chemistry to be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. One of the group's lines of work is the diagnosis and restoration of historical and cultural heritage for which spectroscopic analytical techniques are used. Although the group's research has until...