I joined the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering as a Lecturer in August 2013. I am interested in a wide range of materials, particularly those with soft-hard matter interfaces, and I use multiscale simulations to understand their properties. For more information please visit my personal webpage:
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/karen.johnston/
Has expertise in:
I build multiscale simulations using the following techniques:
CP102 Introduction to Chemical Engineering: Fundamentals, Techniques and Tools
This course consists of 4 components:
Supervisor for CP407 conceptual design projects
Academic supervisor for 18350 MEng projects
Academic supervisor for Distance Learning MSc project
HYBRID MATERIALS: Hard-Soft Matter Interfaces
Organic-inorganic composites are widely used in industry due to their strength, flexibility and light weight. Although generic properties of polymers at surfaces are well understood the interaction between specific materials is not. The main challenge in simulating polymer-solid interfaces is the different length and time scales involved. This research bridges the gap between the micro- and mesoscale properties using a hierarchical multiscale approach. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used to obtain the detailed quantum interactions at the interface and this information is used to build surface potentials for atomistic and coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics simulations.
Chemical and Process Engineering
James Weir Building
