John B. Vander Sande

Dr. Vander Sande is Professor Emeritus and former Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Vander Sande has a Ph.D. in materials science from Northwestern University (1970). He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oxford prior to joining MIT. in 1971.

Dr. Vander Sande’s areas of expertise include observation of the structure of materials through the use of various forms of electron microscopy. His research seeks to establish the relation between the ways in which a material is processed and the structure and properties the material exhibits. He has been investigating carbonaceous material produced by combustion processes with an orientation toward correlating particle structure and composition with the particle source. He has investigated fullerene formation in flames and is currently working with Nano-C on characterization of single-walled nanotubes. In addition, Dr. Vander Sande has been involved in high temperature superconducting oxides first discovered in 1986. He is co-founder of American Superconductor Corporation of Westborough, MA.