EuChemS, the European Chemical Society (https://www.euchems.eu/about-us/what-is-euchems/) aims to nurture a platform for scientific discussion and to provide a single, unbiased European voice on key policy issues in chemistry and related fields. The EuChemS Working Party on Chemistry for Cultural Heritage organised in 2010 the first International ChemCH congress in Ravenna and since then other four editions have been held in Istanbul (TR) in 2012, Vienna (AT) in 2014, Brussels (BE) in 2016, in Bucarest (Ro) in 2018, and in 2022 again in Ravenna (IT) (postponed from 2020 due to pandemic situation). CHEMCH 2024 topics are:
Chemical imaging and spectral imaging
Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for diagnostics, conservation and restoration
Sustainable materials and methods for conservation and restoration
Development of non-invasive / microinvasive analytical methods for artworks
Alteration phenomena: chemical interaction of environment and artworks
Data processing and chemometrics for cultural heritage investigations
Self-boundaries for safe analysis
Multi and transdisciplinary studies of cultural heritage
Chemical aspects of biological alteration phenomena
Environmental chemistry aspects in heritage conservation
Cross-disciplinary visions for heritage science, conservation and restoration
Development of improved spectroscopic, microscopic & chromatographic methods