Icon Heritage Science Group are delighted to announce Dr Diego Tamburini, Polymeric and Modern Organic Materials Scientist at The British Museum will be giving the 2023 Heritage Science Group AGM hybrid evening lecture.
In-person and online at: Room G01, Central House, UCL,14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN.
Liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS): a focus on dye analysis
Chromatographic techniques coupled to mass spectrometry detection are powerful tools to characterise the molecular composition of organic materials. The results often reach such a level of accuracy that the plant and animal sources used to obtain these materials are identified at the price of sacrificing micro-samples for analysis. Liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is ideal to identify a wide range of molecules, from proteins to lipids to small metabolites. In the past few years, a significant research line has been developed at the British Museum focusing on the use of LC-MS for dye analysis and its integration in analytical protocols for the study of cultural heritage objects.
In this talk Dr Tamburini will present some of the principles of the technique as well as several case studies that illustrate the challenges of the identification of natural and synthetic dyes in archaeological and historical textiles and other objects from the British Museum collection and beyond.
The lecture is from 18:00-19:00 and will be followed by a wine reception at The British Library for in-person attendees.
