Dataset for the paper: Protective coatings on metals found in scientific-technical collections: the collection of the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT)

The study was carried out in two parts, the first concerned the characterisation of the objects in the MUNCYT collection. The different metals were characterised with XFR and their original coatings with FTIR. These data can be found in the folder "Characterisation of MUNCYT objects". The second part is about the application and evaluation of the 8 coatings described in the abstract on bare steel and brass coupons. These coatings were exposed to accelerated ageing (condensation and UVA radiation) for a total of 336 hours, with an interruption in the middle of the test. The performance of the coatings was therefore monitored at time 0, time 168 hours and 336 hours. The data of this part can be consulted in the folder "Coatings evaluation", where the subfolders corresponding to each analysis technique used during the different ageing times can be found. All files are in open extensions such as .txt; .dpt and .xlsx and are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.