So where are we? I have taken good rest for the weekend and I started working today. I have published part of my report on the scientific study of Japanese swords. I have written the reasons why we chose two Japanese swords for this project, I will write an English translation soon here.
Today, I start working again. What I want to do is writing my next scientific paper. Now I have to do a lot of improvement until I can finish the second one this year. I am worried about what I can’t do but like before I could do this. I might need to find someone to check my English though. Anyways, I will try my best to write a good paper. So keep writing and reading papers. I want to finish as much as I can in August. I have four weeks at least to work on the next paper while I should submit the first paper after I get all comments from collaborators. I have another paper I should be a co-corresponding author, I should also work on that. Keep writing and keep reading the paper.
So then I also want to work on several proposals in the September round which coming in a month.
In the first proposal, I should do some experiments on the SANS experiment under a magnetic field. I should investigate skyrmion or soliton lattice in the chiral helimagnet we recently finished polarized neutron scattering experiment. I should do more experiments with high resolution at the low Q region.
In the second proposal, I should work on some polarized neutron scattering experiments on my collaborator’s sample, we want to do more of an experiment with a new chiral helimagnetic sample, he recently found it. Maybe I can only be co-author but it is fun to write a proposal and to get ready for the polarized neutron scattering experiment. I need to contact my collaborator to ask for his sample.
In the 3rd proposal, maybe I will be working on a Japanese sword or a Naginata (Japanese sword for women) to do the neutron imaging experiment. I am not sure this is the first time or not. But, it could be something interesting to start the experiment if no one ever has done it. I will do my best. Also, there is a small Japanese sword we can try to measure. We had issues bringing a Japanese sword to Australia to perform an experiment because it is a cultural heritage and weapon so it is hard to bring in Australia and bring it back to Japan even before the pandemic. Maybe Anyways, we should try it out.
These are three projects I can come up with now, I will find more projects but I should finish them one by one. Just read and write these proposals.