The GreenHer Centre of Excellence is being established as the first Slovenian centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research in green heritage science within a collaborative European partnership. It is also the first Slovenian centre created under the EU’s highly competitive Teaming for Excellence programme. The new Centre will bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers from [...]
The Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana is excited to announce a new highly interdisciplinary project funded by the University of Ljubljana titled MATRES - Material Resilience in Times of Environmental and Social Change. In collaboration with teams at the Faculty of Arts (coordinator: prof. dr. Matija Črešnar), the Biotechnical Faculty and the Faculty of Natural Sciences [...]
A new study by HSLL researchers, published in npj Heritage Science, sheds new light on the acidic emissions produced during the degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), a material widely found in heritage collections. In the paper titled “Poly(vinyl chloride) degradation: Identification of acidic degradation products, their emission rates and implications for heritage collections”, Špela Pok, [...]
