VIARAM – Virtual Institute of Applied Research on Advanced Materials

VIARAM is an open access, freely available scientific web site of multidisciplinary favor, a place to present ideas and non-solved problems, and to exchange ideas published in scientific journals covering advanced, applied and intelligent materials, investigated at nano-, mezo-, micro-scales with comparative analysis of dimensional effects and special emphasis on condensed matter methods. The multidisciplinarity is understood as the common use of experimental, theoretical and simulations efforts related to physics, materials science, electronics, etc.

VIARAM Staff

Andrea Ehrmann: measurement, technology, magnetism, textile technologies, new materials

Tomasz Blachowicz: experiments and data analysis

Guido Ehrmann: 3D printing, electronics, sensors, head of IT chapter

Pawel Steblinski: webmaster, head of simulation chapter

Ferdinand Tamoue: textile mechanics and medical textiles

VIARAM possesses the character of a science-based think-tank providing independent opinions from a general perspective related to development of science in contemporary society, about high-risk multidisciplinary projects at the edge between applied and basic research. VIARAM realizes its goals by organizing virtual discussion panels, workshops, webinars and conferences, in order to disseminate and popularize scientific knowledge.

The VIARAM members recently concentrate on common publications. The website will be filled with more content later on.

The institute is the initiative of two people: Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Blachowicz (Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics – Center for Science and Education, Gliwice, Poland) and Prof. Dr. Dr. hab. Andrea Ehrmann (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Bielefeld, Germany).

The list of the recent scientific problems includes:

· Magnetic nanostructures and exchange bias,

· Magnetization dynamics in low-dimensional structures,

· Micromagnetic simulations, including LLG and LLB approaches,

· Nano-thermal properties of fibers and textile materials,

· Computer simulations of random walking and image processing in geomorphological structures,

· Fractals and deterministic chaos analysis in applied materials,

The universities and research institutions where the VIARAM members are employed are not responsible for the contents of this page.

If you are interested in joining the virtual institute, please contact us:

tblachow@www.viaram.bobolin.com.pl; andrea.ehrmann@hsbi.de