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Assistant Professor
Betar Gallant
ABS Career Development Professor
Interests
- Electrochemical greenhouse gas capture and conversion
- Advanced batteries and flow cells for energy storage and supply
- Surface chemistry and molecular functionalization for catalyst material design
Professor Gallant News + Media
Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
Assistant Professor Betar Gallant is developing a battery that could both capture carbon dioxide in power plant exhaust and convert it to a solid ready for safe disposal.
New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
A lithium-based battery developed by Assistant Professor Betar Gallant could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants, helping reduce greenhouse gas emission.
Tackling Greenhouse Gases
Faculty in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing technologies that store, capture, convert, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions using a variety of approaches.
Faculty Details
Education
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2008
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
S.B. -
2010
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
S.M. -
2013
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Greenhouse gas mitigation technologies
- In-line electrochemical capture, conversion and sensing
- Novel battery chemistries
- Electrochemical energy harvesters
- Electrode material design
- Device prototyping
Honors + Awards
- 2013, Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
- 2011, MIT Martin Family Graduate Fellow
- 2008, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
- 2008, MIT Energy Initiative Graduate Research Fellow
Publications
- Book chapter:
- Gallant BM, Lu YC, Mitchell RR, Kwabi DG, Carney TJ, Thompson CV and Shao-Horn Y, "The kinetics and product characteristics of oxygen reduction and evolution in Li-O2 batteries", from Li-Air Batteries: Current Status, Springer New York , 121-158 (37 pages), 2015.
- Selected publications:
- Gallant B.M., Kwabi D.G., Mitchell R.R., Thompson C.V. and Shao-Horn Y., "Influence of Li2O2 morphology on oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution kinetics in Li-O2 batteries", Energy & Environmental Science, 6, 2518 – 2528 (10 pages), 2013.
- Mitchell R.R., Gallant B.M., Shao-Horn Y. and Thompson C.V., "Mechanisms of morphological evolution of Li2O2 particles during electrochemical growth", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4, 1060 - 1064 (4 pages), 2013.
- Gallant B.M., Mitchell R.R., Kwabi D.G., Zhou J., Zuin L., Thompson C.V. and Shao-Horn Y., "Chemical and morphological changes of Li-O2 batteries upon cycling", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 20800 - 20805 (5 pages), 2012.
- Mitchell R.R., Gallant B.M., Thompson C.V. and Shao-Horn Y., "All-carbon nanofiber electrodes for high-energy rechargeable Li-O2 batteries", Energy & Environmental Science, 4, 2952 - 2958 (6 pages), 2011.