Institute of Mechanics

Open Laboratory on Experimental Micro and Nano Mechanics (OLEM)

OLEM is a structural unit in the Department Fluid Mechanics.

 

OLEM Presentations:

• OLEM BROCHURE
• Nanotechnology Research at OLEM
• Rheology of Nanocomposites
• Fine Mechanical Tests at Micro&Nanoscale

Open Laboratory on Experimental Micro & Nano Mechanics (OLEM) was founded in 2010 and equipped under the Research Infrastructure Project DO-02-53, supported by the Bulgarian Science Fund. The infrastructure is permanently upgraded under the support of several European projects under FP7 and H2020.

OLEM activities are focused on fabrication, characterization and application of polymer nanocomposite nanomaterials, as well as education and training of PhDs and early stage researchers.

 

Research Topics:

Theme 2b in the Scientific Plan of Fluid Mechanics Department, IMech-BAS.

"Polymer Nanocomposites" - Coordinator: Prof. D.Sc Rumiana Kotsilkova

Task 5: "Polymer nanocomposites with graphene and carbon nanotubes - technology, properties and applications" - Coordinator: Prof. Evgeni Ivanov.

 

New polymer nanocomposites are being developed from biopolymer, polylactic acid, filled with graphene and carbon nanotubes. The interdisciplinary research is focused on the areas of fluid mechanics, solid mechanics and material science. The methods of experimental and theoretical rheology, macro-micro-and-nanomechanics, thermal and structural analyses are applied. The aim of this research is to study the structure-property relationship around the percolation threshold of filling.

 

OLEM address is Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Block 4, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.

Staff	Room	Phone (+359 2)	E-mail
Prof. D.Sc. Rumiana Kotsilkova Head	405	979 6462	kotsilkova@imbm.bas.bg
Prof. Dr. Evgeni Ivanov	427	979 6481	ivanov_evgeni@imbm.bas
Assist. Professor Dr. Ivanka Petrova	332	979 6475	ivanka.petrova@imbm.bas.bg
Assist. Professor Dr. Verislav Angelov	429	979 6407	v.angelov@imbm.bas.bg
Assistant Dr. Hristiana Velichkova	332	979 6475	hristiana_velichkova@imbm.bas.bg
Assistant Dr. Polya Angelova	425	979 6481	p.angelova@imbm.bas.bg
Assistant Radost Ivanova - PhD student	425	979 6481	r.ivanova@imbm.bas.bg
Assist. Prof. Dr. Dzhihan Menseidov	429	979 6407	menseidov@imbm.bas.bg
Аssociated members
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antonia Topliyska	405	979 6462	a.topliyska@mail.bg

 

 

 

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Institute of Mechanics tel.: +359 2 973 31 40; fax: +359 2 870 74 98; e-mail: office@imbm.bas.bg