Metal, stone and ceramics

Example project

Conservation work on the Mary Rose

The Mary Rose was a warship built on the orders of King Henry VIII which sank in 1545. The well-preserved ship and its contents were salvaged in 1982. Imperial College is working with the Mary Rose Trust to prevent further degradation of the artefacts.

Further reading

• Conserving Britain's most precious antique ship

Academic expertise

• Professor Eleanor Schofield

Scientific literature

• Potential of superabsorbent polymer for self-sealing cracks in concrete
• The long term corrosion of glasses: analytical results after 32 years of burial at Ballidon
• Moisture attack on museum glass measured by SIMS
• Radical changes in Islamic glass technology: evidence for conservatism and experimentation with new glass recipes from early and middle Islamic Raqqa, Syria
• Room temperature corrosion of museum glass: an investigation using low-energy SIMS
• Application of SIMS to silver tarnish at the British Museum
• Why stainless steel corrodes

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