Fifteen Years of Study of Cultural and Natural Heritage Materials at SOLEIL.

From the first initiatives [[1]] to the most recent developments of synchrotron-based techniques for the study of cultural and natural heritage materials, many synchrotron facilities have developed their own scientific programs in this field [[2]]. Ender to hard X-rays 3-23 keV</td><td>Macro: 250 × 200 µm Micro: 5 to 10 µm</td><td>XRF, XRD, DANES, DAFS, EXAFS, XANES imaging or punctual measurements</td></tr><tr><td><graphic href="gsrn a 2135959 ilg0005 c.jpg" content-type="color" /></td><td char=".">U X-ray tomography Synchrotron X-ray micro- and nanotomography allow the study of the detailed 3D morphology of bulk samples, with a spatial resolution that can go down to the sub-micrometer range for "standard" parallel-beam projection microtomography setups, and down to less than 50 nm in nano-tomography methods using more recent and more complex schemes, such as hard X-ray transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM). D micro spectral imaging with XRF, XANES, and XRD 3D computed tomography with absorption and phase contrast (in the future)</td></tr><tr><td><graphic href="gsrn a 2135959 ilg0013 c.jpg" content-type="color" /></td><td char=".">T. [Extracted from the article]