Announcement: Math/Science Lecture - Salt Damage of Building Materials Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - this Friday

Pratt's Department of Math and Science will present "Salt Damage
of Building Materials Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance," a lecture
by Professor Leo Pel of the Center for Materials Research at Eindhoven
University of Technology in The Netherlands, on Friday, December 12 at 11
a.m. in the Alumni Reading Room on the third floor of Pratt's Brooklyn
Library.

The lecture is free and open to the Pratt community. Those interested may
RSVP to Eleonora Del Federico at edelfede@pratt.edu.

OVERVIEW:
Salts are widely recognized as one of the primary causes of the
irreversible deterioration of many historical objects such as wall
paintings, statues, historical buildings, and other artworks.
Contemporary buildings and civil constructions also suffer from
salt-induced damage processes. In these salt-weathering processes, the
moisture and ion transport play a central role; hence the first step in
understanding the durability of these materials is understanding the
transport processes in these materials.

Dr. Leo Pel has been involved in the development of specialized Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) setups for studying moisture and ion transport
phenomena in porous building materials. His current research involves the
study of crystallization of sodium sulfate heptahydrate in porous
materials, desalination of porous building.

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