The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

Scientists study old photos for new solutions to corrosion

Each week, Viewpoints features interviews with guests that have expertise and real-word experience regarding specific issues. The program is aired on over 450 radio stations throughout the country.

This weeks featured guests were

Volker Rose, Physicist with the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, (www.anl.gov) and

Edward Vicenzi, Research scientist at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute, (https://www.si.edu/mci/).

Material failure caused by corrosion is dangerous and costs billions of dollars every year. What if you could figure out how to prevent and treat corrosion at the tiniest "nano" level before it has a chance to cause a material to fail? Viewpoints talks to two scientists who are researching that problem using an X-ray microscope and old photographs called "daguerreotypes." © Viewpoints 2013

Listen to the interview on iTunes (select 10/20/2013).