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Determination of Composition of Raw Materials for Porcelain Fabrication by XRF, TOF-SIMS, and XPS Methods for Further Porcelain Art Items Characterisation and Detection of Modern Counterfeits

Version 1 : Received: 4 February 2023 / Approved: 7 February 2023 / Online: 7 February 2023 (02:07:04 CET)

How to cite: Wainstein, D.; Vakhrushev, V.; Kovalev, A.; Konovalov, E.; Volkov, A.; Shipova, M. Determination of Composition of Raw Materials for Porcelain Fabrication by XRF, TOF-SIMS, and XPS Methods for Further Porcelain Art Items Characterisation and Detection of Modern Counterfeits. Preprints 2023, 2023020106. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0106.v1 Wainstein, D.; Vakhrushev, V.; Kovalev, A.; Konovalov, E.; Volkov, A.; Shipova, M. Determination of Composition of Raw Materials for Porcelain Fabrication by XRF, TOF-SIMS, and XPS Methods for Further Porcelain Art Items Characterisation and Detection of Modern Counterfeits. Preprints 2023, 2023020106. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0106.v1

Abstract

Modern surface analysis techniques are expanding significantly possibilities in description and attribution of historical artifacts. The present study is aimed to compare analytical ability of the X-ray fluorescent analysis (XRF) typically applied for studies ceramic art items with novel surface analysis methods: time-of-flight secondary ions mass spectroscopy (SIMS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) that were applied on measurements of elemental compositions of powder raw materials for porcelain fabrication: pegmatite P-1, Vesco-prima clay, kaolin, bone earth, dolomite, and feldspar. It was shown that SIMS successfully measures light elements unnoticeable for XRF such as lithium, beryllium, boron and heavy impurities not found out by XRF such as cobalt, cerium, copper, rubidium, vanadium. XPS has found thorium in the kaolin sample that was not detected by SIMS and XRF. The paper provides also values of chemical shifts of some XPS lines observed in materials under examination. The obtained information on relations of basic and impurity elements revealed by XRF and SIMS together with XPS chemical shifts data could be used to expose contemporary falsifications of historical porcelain and to attribute porcelain items during conservation process.

Keywords

X-ray fluorescent analysis (XRF); secondary ions mass spectroscopy (SIMS); X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); porcelain; pegmatite; Vesco-prima clay; kaolin; bone earth; dolomite; feldspar

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Ceramics and Composites

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