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, as well as by partial support from several European H2020 and FP7 Projects.

OLEM activities are focused on fabrication, characterization and application of polymer nanocomposite nanomaterials, as well as on education and training of young 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. PhD Evgeni Ivanov.

 

A research on the development and characterization of polymer nanocomposites with graphene and carbon nanotubes is carried out for functional and structural applications. The experimental and theoretical investigations are focused on approaches of fluid mechanics (rheology), micro-and nanomechanics of solid materials and surfaces, physical chemistry and physics. Methods of experimental and theoretical rheology, nanostructure characterization, thermal analysis, nanoindentation, tribology, deformation and fracture are mainly applied. The aim of this research is to estabish a processing-structure-property relationship in polymer nanocomposites around the percolation threshold, depending on interfacial and interparticle interactions, for the design of novel nanocomposites with potential applications in 3D printing, electronics and mechatronics.

 

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 Velihkova	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
Assisт. 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