In october i have attended a 4th Stanislaw Gorczyca School on TEM Basics and Advanced Sample Preparation which was organized by the AGH in Krakow. During the school I have listened to a number of lectures regarding various aspects of electron microscopy techniques and applications. Lectures were covering broad spectrum of subjects related to electron microscopy with main focus converged on Transmission Electron Microscope. Each segment was followed with practical demonstration on actual equipment, where participants had chance for more discussion regarding ways of conducting experiments.
Following the EM school i took place in 2nd Joint PhD Seminar this time organized in Krakow. During the seminar multiple oral presentations have been given by PhD students and young scientists from organizers institution (Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS and AGH Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics) as well as from abroad (TU Dresden). During the poster session I have presented poster presentation concerning my latest results on microstructural characterization of KoBo deformed hexagonal materials. Title of the presentation was: “Microstructure characterization in hexagonal materials deformed plastically by complex loading”.

On October 17th and 18th we took part in the “2nd Joint PhD seminar”. During the meeting young scientists from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute for Materials Science of Technical University Dresden presented their new original results in scientific talks or posters. The topics covered included a wide variety of engineering materials, materials processing and advanced methods for materials characterization.

During October :
- I was investigating the spin coated Si wafer by SEM obserwations and optical measurements. Observed improvement of reflection reduction vanishes after washing the sample. Only few silver NPs were found by SEM observations. This work undermines previously obtained results and NPs-caused cell enhancement. Most probable explanation of cell improovement is formation of quasi antireflection coating from other solution compounds.
- I attended in general AFM and FTIR instruction.
- I performed SEM observations of photochemically prepared samples. Most important fingig was diveristy of particles shape with the beam intensity changes across one sample .

During this month it was possible form me to participate in course about scanning electron microscopy with many practical sessions. I started to use SEM by myself.

In October I participate in Joint PhD Seminar which took place at AGH University of Science and Technologyy, where I presented the results of my work in the form of speech entitled „Electrodeposition and characterization of Zn-Mo coatings for corrosion protection of steel”.
I also listened to several presentations by other students from Interstudia Project as well as from TU Dresden and from AGH.