This month was not so sad and depressive as I expected despite of drowsy weather. Probably it took place thanks to many things which have to be done. I performed cytotoxicity assays of PEM films such like PLL/HA and PLL/ALG. I also prepared Chi/CS samples which were sent to Laser Center in Leoben (Austria) in order to introduce into their structure SiC nanoparticles by PACVD method.

On the basis of an algorithm written program, creating EBSD maps based on mathematical graph G = (V, E) in the form of letters, in which the set of vertices V = {v1, ..., vn} is identified with a set of grain products, and the set of edges E = {e1, ..., em} is identified with the relation of grain vi vj neighborhood. Each node of the set of V has not yet assigned an average grain orientation and size (number of pixels of subsequent). The set E is formed from a set of V in the following way. Each grain vi from the set V is expanded by one pixel (up, down, left and right). Then takes into account the part of the common intersection of all the vertices understood as sets of items in a square matrix EBSD maps. Most of these grains will of course be decoupled, and where the information is collected intersect with a length of intersection, disorientation, borders positions in the matrix of the map.

As the term is chasing, I had to reliably get to work and write. So that month I focused on writing, leaving for a moment my research. I managed to write a piece of theoretical introduction for cell construction and operation.

During November:
- I have been writing an introduction to my work
- I have prepared powders from ternary melt spun ribbons and obtained my first bulk samples by hot pressing
- I did some TEM studies on annealed samples of quaternary Al-Mn-Fe-Mo melts spun ribbons

I was testing the method for finding
peaks in grain boundary distributions.
It seem that it is quite efficient, but
some control parameters and threshold
must be adjusted. I have been playing with
differen values of those parameters
for various data sets.