ISAAC Mobile Lab

Description

Running for over a decade, the ISAAC mobile laboratory provides heritage institutions with access to:

• unique in-house developed cutting-edge mobile imaging and spectroscopy instruments (funded by UK Research Council grants);
• state-of-the-art commercial and bespoke instruments for in situ analysis in art conservation, history and archaeology;​
• advanced data science methodologies for interpretation of results;​
• expertise in interdisciplinary research at the interface between science and heritage.

Instrument types include:

• spectral imaging;
• Raman spectroscopy;
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT);
• laser induced fluorescence;
• X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF);
• Fibre Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS);
• microfade spectroscopy;
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy;
• laser induced breakdown spectroscopy;
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR);
• reflectance transformation imaging.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham