Phone 0114 225 6299
Email O.Beg@shu.ac.uk
Course Leader:MEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering BEng (Hons) PhD (Manchester) MAIAA
Professor Chris BreenPhone 0114 225 3008
Fax 0114 225 3501
E-mail c.breen@shu.ac.uk
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Profile coming soon
Dr Chris SammonPhone 0114 225 3069
E-mail c.sammon@shu.ac.uk
Chris Sammon graduated from Hull with a degree in Chemistry and an MSc in Analytical Science.
About the group
The interests of the Polymers, Composites and Spectroscopy Group (PCAS) encompass polymers, minerals and composites.
The group routinely applies quantitative vibrational spectroscopy and thermoanalytical methods to characterise the innovative materials under investigation.
Representative research areas include
- fire retardant and barrier properties of clay polymer nanocomposites
- competitive sorption processes in nanocomposite formulations
- stimuli responsive polymers
- transport mechanisms in polymeric and composite systems
- thermal and biodegradation of polymers and composites
- crystallisation and deformation behaviour of polymers
- gelation mechanisms of polymers
- the use of surface restructured clays as catalysts ad sorbents
Professor Chris BreenPhone 0114 225 3008
Fax 0114 225 3501
E-mail c.breen@shu.ac.uk
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Profile coming soon
Dr Chris SammonPhone 0114 225 3069
E-mail c.sammon@shu.ac.uk
Chris Sammon graduated from Hull with a degree in Chemistry and an MSc in Analytical Science.
About the group
The Materials and Fluid Flow Modelling Group is involved in the computer simulation and mathematical modelling of a range of materials and related materials processing techniques. Much of our work uses statistical mechanical simulation methods including molecular dynamics, Metropolis Monte Carlo and lattice Boltzmann methods.
The aim of the work is to develop new simulation techniques and models which can form the basis of predictive modelling of materials and their processing. One of the key challenges in predictive modelling is the development of models which bridge the length scales from the molecular scale to the macroscopic continuum scale. Lattice models are ideally suited as coarse grained models and we have applied them with considerable success to a range of systems.
Facilities used include a range of UNIX workstations housed in a purpose-built, dedicated computing laboratory, and time on external facilities including the Cray T3E at Edinburgh.
Our work is funded by a variety of industrial and government agencies including DERA Malvern, ICI Wilton, Albright and Wilson, and Rolls Royce Associates, as well as EPSRC. We are also partners in a High Performance Computing Initiative Project.
Phone 0114 225 6299
Email O.Beg@shu.ac.uk
Course Leader:MEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering BEng (Hons) PhD (Manchester) MAIAA
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