16 septembre 10h - 1ère pierre IPANEMA
A la veille des Journées européennes du patrimoine, la première pierre d’IPANEMA a été posée le 16 septembre 2011 par le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication et la Région Île-de-France, en présence des partenaires du projet : le CNRS, le Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, le synchrotron SOLEIL et NWO. Toute l'actualité d'IPANEMA
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Why have painter Murillo's skies turned grey?
Scientists from SOLEIL have found the key of a blue pigment fading on historic paintings, like Murillo's or Veronese's ones.
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IPANEMA is a member of the new multiple-site “PATRIMA” Laboratory of Excellence
On 25th March 2011, The French Prime Minister presented, together with the Minister of Higher Education and Research and the General Commissioner for Investment, the list of the 100 projects to be funded as "Laboratories for Excellence" of France. These 100 projects included “PATRIMA”, of which IPANEMA is a partner, the European platform for ancient materials studies at SOLEIL.
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Synchrotron radiation records the luminescence of ancient materials
UV luminescence techniques have been used by conservators and museum scientists for decades, providing a (usually qualitative) analysis of art and heritage materials. By exploiting the analytical capabilities of the DISCO beamline, which monochromatic beam supplies two UV-visible microscopes, a new approach has just been developed to characterize the luminescence of ancient materials. The luminescence spectra obtained at high spectral and spatial resolutions have made it possible to identify previously hard-to-identify constituents of musical instruments and pictorial works...
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Workshop 'IPANEMA 2011 - Synchrotron radiation for ancient materials' January 17th and 18th, 2011
The 2-day workshop 'IPANEMA 2011 - Synchrotron radiation for ancient materials' is the opportunity to hear and discuss new applications of synchrotron radiation in the field and to participate to the setting up of the IPANEMA European platform at SOLEIL with methodological developments for the community. It is organized as a satellite event of the Soleil Users' Meeting 2011 and will be held at Auditorium Bloch (CEA L'Orme des Merisiers, next to SOLEIL).
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Signing of a co-operation accord between the Smithsonian, SOLEIL synchrotron and the CNRS in the presence of the French Research Minister, Madame Valérie Pécresse
The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, SOLEIL synchrotron and the CNRS have signed a co-operation accord in the presence of the French Research Minister, Madame Valérie Pécresse. On the 10th June, at the Research Ministry, Eva Pell, Michel van der Rest and Alain Fuchs signed a Memorandum of Understanding between their institutions. This general framework for cooperation will cover three main areas: joint research on ancient materials, developing French and American methodology for analyzing these materials and encourage the development of joint projects between the U.S.A and Europe by means of the IPANEMA research platform, which is being set up on the SOLEIL site to study ancient materials.
> To read the entire press release
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New lights on ancient materials 2010 The European training school New Lights for ancient materials 2010 will be held at SOLEIL in May-June 2010. The new edition of the School is focused on the X-ray studies of sediments, wood, bone, clays, and ceramics, for archaeology, palaeo-environments and cultural heritage. Participants will be supported by the COST European framework.
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SOLEIL sheds light on the secret of the Stradivarius varnish Works on Stradivari varnishes have just been published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie. They take place in the context of the setting-up of the European platform for ancient materials research IPANEMA (Loïc Bertrand, Laurianne Robinet) at SOLEIL. The infrared microscopy experiments were performed at the SMIS synchrotron beamline (Paul Dumas, Christophe Sandt). Discover the varnish composition of the most well-known instrument-maker.
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Heritage Days 2009: a first successful experience for SOLEIL SOLEIL was open on an exceptional basis on Saturday, 19 September to celebrate European Heritage Days, offering over 500 visitors from all over the Ile-de-France region the opportunity to discover the synchrotron and its current applications, particularly in the field of ancient materials (archaeology, palaeontology, palaeoenvironments and heritage conservation).
The sunny day provided the perfect backdrop for this festive event enjoyed by all thanks to the hospitality and cooperative effort of the public relations teams of SOLEIL and IPANEMA, who hosted this event. Those who were lucky enough to visit our facility had the chance to participate in several special events proposed by the ARKEOMEDIA association, including workshops on human evolution, ceramography, prehistoric rock art and archaeozoology. Young and old alike were also fascinated by SOLEIL’s light workshops and the special exhibition titled “Matière à fouille, fouilles dans la matières” (which loosely translates as “digging through ancient materials”); also featured were showings of presentation videos by SOLEIL and IPANEMA and a video on experiments with ancient materials.
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Workshop: "A beamline for ancient materials at SOLEIL
6 and 7 May 2009 The workshop entitled "A beamline for ancient materials at SOLEIL" will present and discuss the preliminary design work on the two experimental branches of the new synchrotron beamline optimised for ancient materials: one is devoted to hard X-ray micro-computed tomography, and the other to hard X-ray spectromicroscopy with micron resolution. This workshop, open to all, builds on the achievements of the work groups that began meeting in 2008 to define the IPANEMA concept.
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A less than sympathetic… sort of ink Il Ancient manuscripts sometimes deteriorate because of the ink that was used to write them. Why? How to prevent it? > Vidéo : A less than sympathetic… sort of ink
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