Contact
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
http://www.mse.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/vanderven
Phone: 734-615-3843
Energy Research
Professor Van der Ven’s research focuses on understanding and predicting equilibrium and non-equilibrium materials properties from first principles, combining electronic structure methods (density functional theory) with techniques from statistical mechanics to calculate thermodynamic and kinetic properties of new materials, including oxides and structures of assembled nano-particles for battery and fuel cell components, metallic alloys, alloy surfaces for catalysis and organic electronic materials.
