In October I decided to change a production route of my in situ Al/AlN composites. As a solid state reaction method hasn’t really worked out, I decided to switch to liquid state reaction (but still with a use of magnesium nitride as a nitrogen-bearing medium).

I also visited the Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences where I managed to perform some TEM in-situ heating investigations of precipitate dissolution in my composites produced via powder metallurgy route.