From the RMS Titanic to the SS Endurance, shipwrecks provide precious — yet rapidly decaying — glimpses into history. Conservators carefully dry marine wooden artifacts for preservation, but this process may cause harm. In order to enhance the treatment of fragile marine artifacts, researchers have created a new hydrogel that swiftly neutralizes damaging acids and stabilizes waterlogged wood from a shipwreck that is 800 years old.
New hydrogel preserves ancient waterlogged wooden artifacts
It stabilized waterlogged wood from an 800-year-old shipwreck.
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