In April I have participated in event called "Materials science for industry" that was prepared and organised by Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science in Krynica. The seminar took place between 11 and 13 of April, but preparations were taking place also long before as I was preparing my presentation as well as an abstract that was later on printed in book of abstracts from the seminar. All of students from our PhD project took part in seminar and presented their work and possible industrial applications of their thesis. Reception from industry representatives was generally very good, and some new contacts as well as plans for cooperation were made.

In the middle of this month I took part in a seminar entitled: “Inżynieria Materiałowa dla przemysłu” which was held in Krynica. I gave a speech entitled “Zastosowanie techniki 3D-EBSD do badań mikrostruktury ceramiki cyrkonowej”. The meeting was a good opportunity to learn what are the demands of polish industry concerning materials science.

Dear readers!

During this month I prepared the speech and small publication for special meeting beetwen science and industry - Material Science in the Industry. It was really nice to meet people for the outside world and compare industral and science approach to the same problems.

In April my attention has been focused on analysis of endothelial cell adhesion results for the genipin cross-linked coatings. Moreover, I prepared similar samples for HUVECs viability and functionality determination during long-term cell culture. I also performed the ATR-FTIR measurements of PLL/HA multilayer coatings cross-linked with various genipin concentration. The results obtained so far were presented at Materials Science for Industry Symposium. The main objective of my speech entitled "Polyelectrolyte multilayer biomimetic coatings for surface modification of cardiovascular devices" was to show industry representatives the direction of current research work in the field of the heart supporting systems development.

We finally managed to sent out the paper. How anxious one becomes awaiting the response from the editor is only known to those who have sent out out their first paper and awaited the reply impatiently.
Work continues...