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Früh- bis spätmittelalterliche Stuckausstattungen bilden ein regionales, da an Gips-vorkommen korreliertes kunsttechnologisches Spezifikum. Aufgrund der beschränkten Kontrollmöglichkeiten über die in einem Meiler oder Feldofen herrschenden Parameter charakterisiert mittelalterliche Hochbrandgipse ein Phasengemisch aus Calciumsulfat-Hydratstufen und thermisch mehr oder weniger stark geschädigten Nebenbestandteilen aus der Gipslagerstätte. Die Analyse mittelalterlicher Hochbrandgipse erfordert die genaue Kenntnis der Bildungs- und Stabilitätsbereiche der Phasen im System CaSO4–H2O. Gips CaSO4 x 2 H2O entwässert beim Brennen über Halbhydrat CaSO4 x 0.5 H2O zu Anhydrit III CaSO4, welches schließlich in den für mittelalterliche Hochbrandgipse relevanten Anhydrit II (AII) übergeht. Für diesen wurden aufgrund der Abbindeeigenschaften drei bis vor kurzem nicht spektroskopisch unterscheidbare Sub-Phasen postuliert: Anhydrit II schwerlöslich (300-500°C, AII-s), unlöslich (500-700°C, AII-u) und Estrichgips (> 700°C, AII-E). Anhydrit I ist nur über 1180°C stabil.
Mittels strukturanalytischer Methoden wie Röntgenbeugung (XRD) und Raman-Spektroskopie lassen sich nur die verschiedenen Hydratstufen sowie AIII, AII und AI eindeutig aufgrund unterschiedlicher Kristallstrukturen identifizieren. Ein neues auf Raman-mikrospektroskopischer Bildgebung basierendes Verfahren ermöglicht den Nachweis verschiedener Brenntemperaturen aufgrund der Auswertung von Raman-Bandenbreiten von AII, welche ein Maß für die mit steigender Brenntemperatur zunehmende Kristallinität der Anhydritkörner sind.
Die Anwendung dieser Methode sowie der Nachweis pyrometamorpher Umwandlun-gen von Begleitmineralien aus dem Gipsstein als Mineralthermometer zur Bestimmung von Brenntemperaturen wird anhand von Proben früh- und spätmittelalterlicher Skulpturen und Stuckdekorationen aus Südtirol diskutiert. Außerdem wird gezeigt, wie die Analyse solch komplexer Materialien Rückkopplungen in die Analytische Chemie erzeugen kann, da zur erfolgreichen Analytik eine Möglichkeit zur reproduzierbaren Bestimmung von Ramanbandenbreiten und der Korrektur instrumentenabhängiger Verbreiterung gefunden und optimiert werden musste.
Damit sollten überzeugende Belege dafür erbracht werden können, dass die Komplexität des monomineralischen Bindemittels Gips bezüglich der je nach Brandbedingungen unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften und insbesondere bezüglich der Herausforderungen an die Analytische Chemie häufig unterschätzt wird.
The use of high-fired gypsum as binder for masonry and joint mortars or stuccowork in Central Europe in the Early and High Middle Ages was a regional specific as it depended on local gypsum deposits. The calcination technology possible at the time resulted in an assemblage of calcium sulphate phases dehydrated to different degrees and partly thermally damaged accessory minerals of the raw gypsum. Not hydrated clusters of firing products preserved in the binder matrix are a typical feature of such mortars. A novel Raman microspectroscopic approach, providing access to the burning history of individual anhydrite grains, was applied to samples from medieval South Tyrolean stucco decorations and sculptures. Beyond that, Raman microspectroscopy was employed for tracing and visualising pyrometamorphic reactions in natural impurities of the kiln run. In the discussed examples mineral thermometry indicates process temperatures above 800°C: the breakdown of magnesium-rich chlorite led to the formation of forsterite Mg2SiO4, while the thermal decomposition of dolomite CaMg(CO3)2 to periclase MgO and lime CaO yielded – after hydration and carbonation – magnesite MgCO3, CaCO3 polymorphs and magnesian calcite. Hydration of periclase in the mixed gypsum paste containing sulphate ions also resulted in magnesium sulphate hydrates, here identified in the form of hexahydrite MgSO4·6H2O. Lower burning temperatures left the accessory minerals in their pristine form, but can be traced by measuring the spectra of individual anhydrite crystals in grains of firing products and evaluating Raman band widths. Throughout the present study, calcination temperatures ranging from approx. 600°C to 900°C were determined.
Raman band widths of anhydrite II reveal the burning history of high‐fired medieval gypsum mortars
(2019)
When used as a mineral binder, gypsum is thermally dehydrated and mixed with water, resulting in a paste hardening in the backreaction to calcium sulphate dihydrate (CaSO4 · 2 H2O). Although nowadays mainly hemihydratebased (CaSO4 · ½ H2O) binders are employed, higher firing temperatures in medieval kilns yielded anhydrite II (CaSO4). Except for the discrimination of the metastable phases anhydrite III and I due to different crystal structures, variations within the production temperature range of anhydrite II (approximately 300 to 1180°C) were not analytically accessible until recently. This study describes the development of an analytical technique, which is based on steady changes of band widths in room‐temperature Raman spectra of anhydrite II as a function of burning temperature. Raman microspectroscopic mapping experiments enable to pinpoint individual unreacted grains of thermal anhydrite in mortars and to discriminate them from natural anhydrites originating from the raw gypsum. The determination of band full widths at half maximum of down to 3 cm−1 and differences between them of a few tenths of wavenumbers is not a trivial task. Thus, a focus of this work is on peak fitting and strategies for correction of instrument‐dependent band broadening, which is often neglected also beyond the field of mortar analysis. Including other potential influences on band widths, burning temperatures of 400 to 900°C can be retraced in high‐fired medieval gypsum mortars with an uncertainty of approximately ± 50 K, as demonstrated with sample material of a stucco sculpture dated around 1400.
Binder remnants in historical mortars represent a record of the connection between the raw materials that enter the kiln, the process parameters, and the end product of the calcination. Raman microspectroscopy combines high structural sensitivity with micrometre to sub-micrometre spatial resolution and compatibility with conventional thin-sectional samples in an almost unique fashion, making it an interesting complementary extension of the existing methodological arsenal for mortar analysis. Raman spectra are vibrational fingerprints of crystalline and amorphous compounds, and contain marker bands that are specific for minerals and their polymorphic forms. Relative intensities of bands that are related to the same crystalline species change according to crystal orientations, and band shifts can be caused by the incorporation of foreign ions into crystal lattices, as well as stoichiometric changes within solid solution series. Finally, variations in crystallinity affect band widths. These effects are demonstrated based on the analysis of three historical mortar samples: micrometric distribution maps of phases and polymorphs, crystal orientations, and compositional variations of solid solution series of unreacted clinker grains in the Portland cement mortars of two 19th century castings, and the crystallinities of thermal anhydrite clusters in a high-fired medieval gypsum mortar as a measure for the applied burning temperature were successfully acquired.
Raman band widths of anhydrite II reveal the burning history of high-fired medieval gypsum mortars
(2019)
The use of high-fired gypsum as binder for masonry and joint mortars or stuccowork in Central Europe in the Early and High Middle Ages was a regional specific as it depended on local gypsum deposits. The calcination technology possible at the time resulted in an assemblage of calcium sulphate phases dehydrated to different degrees and partly thermally damaged accessory minerals of the raw gypsum. Because of the absence of medieval textbooks, the observation of high-temperature, low-pressure mineral transformations and the correlation of phases coexisting in not hydrated binder relicts in the gypsum matrix to the mineralogy of the raw material and the burning conditions constitute the only source to the historical technological know-how.
The CaSO4–H2O system consists of five crystalline phases, which can be discriminated by structural analysis methods, such as Raman spectroscopy, due to obvious differences in their spectroscopic data: gypsum (CaSO4 ⋅ 2 H2O), bassanite (hemihydrate, CaSO4 ⋅ ½ H2O), anhydrite III (CaSO4), anhydrite II (CaSO4), and anhydrite I (CaSO4). Only recently, it was possible to demonstrate that small spectroscopic variations exist also within the relatively large stability range of anhydrite II from approx. 180°C to 1180°C: all Raman bands narrow with increasing burning temperature applied in the synthesis from gypsum powder. The determination of band widths of down to 3 cm-1 and differences between them of a few tenths of a wavenumber is not a trivial task. Thus, this contribution discusses peak fitting and strategies for correction of instrument-dependent band broadening.
Raman maps of polished thin sections of gypsum mortars provide access to the burning histories of individual remnant thermal anhydrite grains and enable the discrimination of natural anhydrite originating from the gypsum deposit. This novel analytical method was applied to samples from medieval South Tyrolean stucco decorations and sculptures. Beyond that, Raman microspectroscopy was employed for following pyrometamorphic reactions in natural impurities of the raw material. In the presented examples mineral thermometry indicates process temperatures above 800°C: the breakdown of magnesium-rich chlorite led to the formation of forsterite Mg2SiO4, while the thermal decomposition of dolomite CaMg(CO3)2 yielded – after hydration and carbonation – magnesite MgCO3, CaCO3 polymorphs and magnesian calcite. Lower burning temperatures, which leave the accessory minerals in their pristine form, can be traced by measuring the spectra of anhydrite crystalites in grains of firing products and evaluating Raman band widths. Throughout the applications of this analytical method so far, calcination temperatures ranging from approx. 600°C to 900°C were determined.
Research in the SALSA Application Lab – Shedding light onto high-fired medieval gypsum mortars
(2019)
After an introduction into the SALSA lab building and the ideas and sources of inspiration for building up the Application Lab as a spectroscopy lab with a strong focus on imaging and microspectroscopy, a very successful example of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the fields of art technology and analytical sciences is presented.
Raman band widths of anhydrite II reveal the burning history of high‐fired medieval gypsum mortars
(2019)
An interdisciplinary collaboration between art technology and analytical sciences yielded an approach based on Raman microspectroscopy for the determination of the burning temperatures applied during the production process of high-fired medieval gypsum mortars. Analytical challenges and applications of the approach to examples from the cultural heritage of South Tyrol are presented.
We present a versatile and simple method using electrochemistry for the exclusive functionalization of the edge of a graphene monolayer with metal nanoparticles or polymeric amino groups. The attachment of metal nanoparticles allows us to exploit surface-enhanced Raman scattering to characterize the chemistry of both the pristine and the functionalized graphene edge. For the pristine patterned graphene edge, we observe the typical edge-related modes, while for the functionalized graphene edge we identify the chemical structure of the functional layer by vibrational fingerprinting. The ability to obtain single selectively functionalized graphene edges routinely on an insulating substrate opens an avenue for exploring the effect of edge chemistry on graphene properties systematically.
The importance of plasmonic heating for the plasmondriven photodimerization of 4-nitrothiophenol
(2019)
Metal nanoparticles form potent nanoreactors, driven by the optical generation of energetic electrons and nanoscale heat. The relative influence of these two factors on nanoscale chemistry is strongly debated. This article discusses the temperature dependence of the dimerization of 4-nitrothiophenol (4-NTP) into 4,4′-dimercaptoazobenzene (DMAB) adsorbed on gold nanoflowers by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS). Raman thermometry shows a significant optical heating of the particles. The ratio of the Stokes and the anti-Stokes Raman signal moreover demonstrates that the molecular temperature during the reaction rises beyond the average crystal lattice temperature of the plasmonic particles. The product bands have an even higher temperature than reactant bands, which suggests that the reaction proceeds preferentially at thermal hot spots. In addition, kinetic measurements of the reaction during external heating of the reaction environment yield a considerable rise of the reaction rate with temperature. Despite this significant heating effects, a comparison of SERS spectra recorded after heating the sample by an external heater to spectra recorded after prolonged illumination shows that the reaction is strictly photo-driven. While in both cases the temperature increase is comparable, the dimerization occurs only in the presence of light. Intensity dependent measurements at fixed temperatures confirm this finding.
Self-mated magnesia stabilized zirconia (Mg-PSZ) ceramic sliding couples have been investigated at 100 N load (P0max= 1324 MPa) in oscillating sliding conditions in different humidity conditions in air and in hot steam. Temperatures have been varied up to 400 °C and pressures up to 6 bars. The results show that the wear behavior of MgO-ZrO2 under high Hertzian contact pressures is strongly dependent on temperature and is similar for both dry oscillating and oscillating in hot steam. However, although the evolution in wear rates on temperature is similar and the wear rates of MgO-ZrO2 plunged above 300 °C in hot steam and air by nearly three orders of magnitude, SEM micrographs revealed in hot steam at 400 °C smooth wear tracks. In contrast, hot steam enhanced the tribochemistry of self-mated alumina couples and reduced wear rates. Hot steam decreased the coefficients of friction of MgO-ZrO2 with increasing temperature, but not the wear rates.