Research Internship in Poitiers
During Internship in the Institute P´ May 28-June 11 2012 Dr. T. V. Basyuk and Ph.D student A.V. Starostina were integrated into the research team of French partner and jointly implement research work agreed amount the two parties. The idea of the training contained several aspects. First aspect consisted in the finding of the most interesting break through research topics for long-term cooperation between French and Ukrainian partners which in the nearest future can be transformed into international research projects. As a result there were selected two research topics: "High pressure-high temperature effect on structure and properties of solid solutions in MAX phases: Ti3(AlxSn(1-x))C2 and Ti2Al(CxN(1-x))y compounds" for Dr. T.V. Basyuk and "High pressure-high temperature effect on structure and properties of MAX phases Ti3AlC2 synthesised at ambient pressure" for PhD student A.V. Starostina. Second aspect consists in founding mutual points of research with other (not from Institute P´, University of Poitiers) potential project´s partners. The third aspect was acquaintance with the modern methodologies which will be used for the proposed projects implementation. To fulfill the last task T.V. Basyuk and A.V. Starostina were leaned the HIP (high isostatic pressure) manufacturing process of MAX phases, gain the skills and performed investigations at scanning electron microscope and X-ray Bruker D8 advance diffractometer.
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