Project ID: PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0331, Grant No. 125BG/30-09-2016
Project Director: Lect.univ.dr. Vasile BERCU
Project Type: National
Project Program: Bridge Grant (Transfer de cunoastere la agentul economic)
Funded by: Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, UEFISCDI
Contractor: University of Bucharest
Project Status: In progress
Start Date: Friday, 30 September, 2016
End Date: Sunday, 30 September, 2018
Authenticity certification as well traceability of the work of art represent two extremely actual issues on a market estimated only in 2015 at 50 Bi US$. Forgers can be classified in three categories: genuine forgers, those who put on market woks of unknown artist as belonging to renowned masters and those who put on market fake works of art certified as original.
In this way, according to the authorized experts, a genuine work of art sold through renowned auction houses could appear on market as a good quality forgery presented as the original. For this reason a reliable personalized and practically unalterable marker should be used for works of arts by authorized experts.
In this context, the main goal of this Project consists of finding and delivering a set of molecular markers, strictly personalized and with a complex structure to be used to identify any work of art previously authenticated be experts. The markers should be extremely resilient to external factors, personalized and relatively easy to be identified by means of high precision and accuracy spectroscopic techniques, and, what is the most important, to be accessible to any authorized expert of art. In this regard, the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Fourier Transform IR and Raman Spectroscopy as well as Thermoluminescence used together with an appropriate selection of materials could be successfully used to deliver certified and individualized marker, stable in time. If properly synthesized and simultaneously characterized by independent methods above mentioned, they could be 99 % effective.
The Project team consists of experienced researchers and professors well familiarized with a multitude of spectroscopic techniques, and, moreover with the use of these techniques in the investigation of a diverse category of work of arts.
Students will participate in research during their graduate or post-graduate studies.
