Nissan engineers in Michigan, USA have found an innovative and quicker way of performing sunlight UV exposure tests to check paint durability. Called the Xenon Weather-Ometer (XWO), which is ...

An established tool for the authentication and conservation of fine art paintings, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) typically requires the removal of small sample sections for analysis.

Paints comprise several different ingredients, including pigments, fillers, binders, solvents, and additives, each of which has a specific purpose in the final product. Their formulation can ...