June was rather event heavy. At the very beginning of the month I had some of my titanium KoBo-ed at AGH. It was the first time I saw working KoBo press and experience was quite terrifying. Fortunately no one got hurt, apart from two dies (8 and 10 mm diameter) that where used in extrusion attempts. Unfortunately for them material they where made of wasn't heat-strong enough (extrusion in 400 C degrees; with billet heated to 450 C degrees;) and both of them where destroyed, but some titanium (about 3 cm in length) was extruded with 10 mm die. Next extrusion attempt of titanium will take place when appropriate heat-strong die is ready.
Following that i spent first half of the month on preparations of poster for EMAS workshop, which means more sample preparations (KoBo-ed zinc this time), and more data analysis. Investigated phenomena was related to highly deformed lattice in near vicinity of grain boundaries. Because of that (and the fact that observed grains were much bigger than anticipated) EBSD maps had to be high resolution (step size 100 nm) and big area ath the asme time (order of 200 micrometers to capture considerable amount of grains). This caused resulting map data files to be huge and difficult to manipulate and analyze. Finally however difficulties were overcomed and poster was produced.
Padua (where EMAS workshop took place) was extremely hot, but also beautiful so I can't complain much. Workshop itself was interesting and informative, especially thanks to big session devoted to different aspects of EBSD technique, which I am particularly interested in.
Later in June I participated in Advanced Materials and Nanoanalysis Workshop held in our Institute.