Abstract
The curing and degradation of oil paint thin films exposed with air pollutant gas i.e. NO2 and SO2 were investigated in terms of the functional goup level by NIR-excited fourier transform Raman spectroscopy. It was shown that the actions of NO2 gas and SO2 gas for paint films were clearly different between NO2 and SO2 for oil paints containing the inorganic and the organic pigments.