Skip to main content
UCL Logo Navigate back to homepage

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Study

    Study

    • Study at UCL
    • Prospective students
    • Current students
    • Accommodation
    • Careers
    • Doctoral School
    • Immigration and visas
    • Student finances
    • Support and wellbeing
  • Research

    Research

    • Research at UCL
    • Engage with us
    • Explore our Research
    • Initiatives and networks
    • Research news
  • Engage

    Engage

    • Engage with UCL
    • Alumni
    • Business partnerships and collaboration
    • Global engagement
    • News and Media relations
    • Public Policy
    • Schools and priority groups
    • Give to UCL
  • About

    About

    • About UCL
    • Who we are
    • Faculties
    • Governance
    • President and Provost
    • Strategy
    • UCL's Bicentenary
  • UCL Logo Active parent page: UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
    • Study
    • Active parent page: Research
    • Our schools and institutes
    • People
    • Ideas
    • Engage
    • News and Events
    • About

Nanorestart

NANORESTART is a European project (in the framework of Horizon 2020) that is developing nanotechnology-based solutions for the conservation of contemporary art materials.

Nanorestart

Breadcrumb trail

  • UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

Faculty menu

  • Current page: Research projects
  • Research publications
  • REF 2021
  • Ethics in the built environment
  • Impact at The Bartlett
  • UCL Royal Academy of Engineering, Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design
  • The Building Envelope Research Network
  • UCL Circularity Hub

Breadcrumb trail

  • UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
  • Research
  • Nanorestart

Research at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage is led by Professor Matija Strlic and Dr Katherine Curran, and will focus on the use of VOC sensors to detect evidence of degradation in modern and contemporary materials, on the use of nanomaterials for the consolidation of canvas and the use of coatings for the protection of modern and contemporary materials, including 3D-printed materials, as well as on the development of quantitative hyperspectral imaging techniques to visualize processes of degradation and conservation.

In this collaboration we are also joined by Dr Laurent Bozec from the UCL Eastman Dental Institute.

The project as a whole involves close to 30 international partners, including major heritage institutions, among which are Tate, National Museum of Denmark, Art Institute of Chicago, Rijksmuseum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Accademia.  Nanorestart is co-ordinated by the Center for Colloid and Surface Science in Florence. For more information about the project and the partnership, please follow this link.

People

Prof. Matija Strlic
Send Matija an email

Dr Katherine Curran
Send Katherine an email

Dr Laurent Bozec
Eastman Dental Institute, UCL
Send Laurent an email

Carolien Coon
Send Carolien an email

Hend Maghoub
Send Hend an email

Mark Kearny
Send Mark an email

Alexandra Bridarolli 
Send Alexandra an email

UCL footer

Visit

  • Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio
  • Library, Museums and Collections
  • UCL Maps
  • UCL Shop
  • Contact UCL

Students

  • Accommodation
  • Current Students
  • Moodle
  • Students' Union

Staff

  • Inside UCL
  • Staff Intranet
  • Work at UCL
  • Human Resources
UCL Logo

University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000

UCL social media menu

  • Link to Instagram
  • Link to LinkedIn
  • Link to Youtube
  • Link to TikTok
  • Link to Facebook
  • Link to Bluesky
  • Link to Threads
  • Link to Soundcloud
Here, it can happen.
Back to top

Essential

  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • Slavery statement
  • Log in

© 2026 UCL