In December I participated in the conference " Joint PhD seminar, Nano-scale Materials and Advanced Characterisation Techniques" organized by Dresden University of Technology.
During the seminar I presented a speech entitled „Electrodeposition of Zn-Mo and Zn-Sn-Mo layers for corrosion protection of steel”. Also I listened to several presentations by other students from Interstudia Project as well as from TU Dresden. During workshop I listened to several lectures concerning advanced characterization techniques of nanomaterials.

I have collected results obtained for a series of aluminum alloy AA3004. Based on the analisys of EBSD/SEM maps I could draw the following conclusions:
- microstructure of AA3004 alloy subjected to severe plastic deformation (ECAP A6x) and then annealed for 1 hour retain homogeneity up to about 250°C and ultra-fine grain structure. The average grain size below 1 micron is kept up to about 270°C. The most unfavorable microstructure has an alloy annealed at 300°C;
- Number of LAGB and HAGB decreases with increasing annealing temperature which is related to the grain growth. For temperature lower than 300°C, in the microstructure are dominating HAGB and above it their amount is kept constant and the difference between HAGB and LAGB is not as significant;
- The nature of the changes of average dezorientation for HAGB and LAGB as a function of annealing temperature is independent of each other.

In November I spent most of time analyzing results obtained from microbial experiments and AFM measurements. Of course, I was also working in the lab, where I had stained samples after Impact R test and subsequently visualized surfaces by CLSM.I prepared a new series of specimens for HUVEC’s growth kinetics observation but unfortunately cells refused adhesion on my PEM coatings. This failure surprised me a little bit but I figured out reason of tricky behavior of endothelial cells. I didn’t give them any sweets (fibronectin) so they knocked on the other door. ;)

In November I spent most of time analyzing results obtained from microbial experiments and AFM measurements. Of course, I was also working in the lab, where I had stained samples after Impact R test and subsequently visualized surfaces by CLSM.I prepared a new series of specimens for HUVEC growth kinetics observation but unfortunately cells refused adhesion on my PEM coatings. This failure surprised me a little bit but I figured out reason of tricky behavior of endothelial cells. I didn’t give them sweets (fibronectin) so they knocked on the other door.

My activities in November:
During this month I had to prepare oral presentation and poster for:

•1) 9th Polish-Japanese Joint Seminar on Micro and Nano Analysis organised together with Microscopy Society and University of Toyama, - Sieniawa 10-13 October 2012
•2) SIM 2012 organised by University of Science and Technology in Krakow - 24-27 October 2012