CSI XL - Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XL 2017

ENEA and ICCOM-CNR participated at the CSI XL 2017 organized by ICCOM-CNR in Congress Palace, Pisa, Italy.

The CSI XL represents a historic forum among scientists presenting and discussing recent developments in fundamentals and applications in all branches of Spectroscopy for several fileds of interest (i.e. materials, environment, food, pharmaceutics, cultural heritage, biology, nanotechnology, fuels).

This context was suitable to show the experimental results obtained by spectroscopic techniques, such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Attenuated Total Reflectance Mid-Infrared (ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy.

ENEA presented two scientific posters: “Demonstration of eco friendly tanning cycle by spectroscopic techniques” and “Eco friendly leather: Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy combined with Scanning Electron Microscopy and Thermogravimetric Analysis”. ICCOM presented the scientific poster “Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in the leather quality control”. The leather characterization allowed the monitoring of both the final leather quality and along the tanning cycle phases. Processes with standard reagents and natural/naturalized products were compared, revealing how the introduction of natural/naturalized products did not modify leather morphology (pore size and distribution), interaction with leather collagen and thermal behavior. LIFETAN brochures were distributed together with some posters copies with the project website and the contact persons e-mail addresses Some hundreds of participants: researchers, exhibitors, sponsors, laboratory instruments suppliers.