Main studies carried out during August:

- preparation of ribbons samples with vanadium, molybdenum, titanium and chromium addition for observation with Scanning Electron Microscopy by embedding in resin, polishing, sputtering with thin carbon layer. The best results from microscopy investigation, concerning homogeneity of ribbon’s microstructure were obtained for ribbons with molybdenum addition

- observation of ingots (with Cr and Mo addition) microstructure, determination of chemical composition of observed phases with SEM

- TEM investigations of Al-Mn-Fe of crystallographic relationships between phases occurring in ribbons microstructure in as-cast state and after annealing

- preparation of poster for MCM 2011 - 10th Multinational Congress on Microscopy
in Urbino, Italy with the title: ‘TEM study of the quasicrystalline phase transformation
in Al-Mn-Fe melt-spun ribbon’.

- participation in seminar about magnesium alloys with rare earth elements addition given by prof. Lazar L. Rokhlin from Moscow