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Table 2 Model papers used for the analytical investigations

From: Nano meets the sheet: adhesive-free application of nanocellulosic suspensions in paper conservation

Name of paper/material properties

Whatman no. 1 paper (I)

Rag paper (II)

Whatman filter paper (III)

Book paper without wood pulp (IV)

Book paper with wood pulp (V)

Newsprint paper with wood pulp (VI)

Dating

Twenty first century

Seventeenth/eighteenth century

Twenty-first century

Twentieth century

Twentieth century

Nineteenth/twentieth century

Manufacture

Machine-made

Hand-made

Machine-made

Machine-made

Machine-made

Machine-made

Fibre material

Cotton linters

Rag

Cotton linters

Sulfite pulp

Mechanical wood pulp

Mechanical wood pulp

Sizing

No sizing

Surface sizing

No sizing

Internal sizing

Internal sizing

Internal sizing

Colour

White

Chamois

White

Chamois, yellowed

Yellow-brownish,

Chamois, yellowed

Writing material

Blank

Printed (type area, black)

Iron gall ink (Neevel ink unbalanced, printed with plotter, migration in paper)

Printed (type area, black)

Printed (type area, black)

Printed (type area, black)