In March I’ve worked on my next publication. It is titled “Characterisation of Zn–Mo alloy layers electrodeposited from aqueous citrate solution”
In this paper I wrote among others that: The conditions for molybdenum with zinc electrodeposition from citrate electrolytes were studied. Partial polarisation curves were determined. The surface composition of deposits was ascertained by chemical analysis (EDS and WDXRF) and profile chemical analysis (GDOES). The morphology of coatings was
studied by SEM. The electrolysis parameters allowing electrodeposition of homogeneous Zn–Mo coatings containing various amounts of molybdenum (in the range from about 0.5 wt.% to 8 wt.%) were selected. The deposits’ morphology depends significantly on the content of molybdenum and on the substrate used. Two Zn–Mo phases are formed in deposits: a hexagonal phase with low content of molybdenum, and an amorphous or nanocrystalline phase enriched by molybdenum.

MD simulation for binary liquid alloys. Structural, dynamic and physical properties investigations using CMD and AIMD method. Modelling of parameters for many body interactions using MEAM approach.

In that month studies were performed for the aluminum alloy containing zirconium (Al-Zr) with the transmission electron microscope (STEM, HR, analysis phase). Specimens as pre-prepared thin films have been cut from a piece of alloy Al-Zr. The aim was to examine the correctness the heat treatment and the structure of the initial material. TEM studies revealed the existence in the material very small particles of Al3Zr uniformly distributed in the grains.

This month I prepared the paper for the conference "Advanced Materials and Technologies AMT 2013”. The concept of my dissertation and possibility to use the results of research in the medical industry were described in the extended abstract, which will be presented on the Symposium “Materials Science for the industry”. In the reporting month, I also continued analysis of the polyelectrolyte coatings structure by using the ATR – FTIR. I performed a few diffusion experiments. I’ve spent some time on visualization of polyelectrolyte films surface after Impact R tests. Moreover I prepared samples which will be subjected to microcalorimetric analysis. In the further research I would like to focus on cross-linking by genipin.

In the last month I've written an abstract for the ISMANAM'2013 conference
that will be held in June in Torino, Italy. The corresponding poster and
paper will concern methods for identification of symmetric and
quasi-symmetric boundaries. We started to look for more efficient
methods for quantification of mixed boundaries. Until now, we have
distances to the nearest tilt and twist boundaries, which are correct
and very complicated and time-consuming to calculate, and we have
Fortes decomposition which is fast, but unstable.