Analyzing with Image-J & Origin, Lecture and X-Rays

We started off the day by analyzing the pictures of the wrinkles. Image-J is used to determine pixel areas of the whole film, water droplet, wrinkle film and water droplet at different magnifications. Origin takes this data and sets up a ratio between the areas and then by comparing it to the known diameter of the film is able to calculate the length of the wrinkles. The wrinkle length is one of the parameters we wish to calculate. The other parameter is the number of wrinkles. We still use Image-J, but just to zoom in, and we manually have to count the wrinkles. Like I mentioned, Image-J is on the Internet for free but not Origin so I converted the formulas from Origin to Excel. This way I can do the analysis at the dorms, if I need to.
Around lunch time, Dr. T. Hashimoto from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in the Advanced Science Research Center gave a quick lecture on ..... (look at the pictures below)

The first picture is for the title of the lecture and the second picture shows some of the methods used for the analysis of the samples. One of the main things he was talking about was how the cellulose nanostructures look very similar to the smoke coming out of volcanoes. So it seems that when the cellulose self assembles it follows some physical behavior that may be inherent in all substances. The rest of the lecture was interesting especially types of scattering used for analysis.
The rest of the afternoon we continued analyzing the wrinkles with Image-J and Origin and we set up a sample for X-ray reflectivity. The film had a thickness of 93.895 nm.