Betar Gallant

Betar Maurkah Gallant is an American engineer who is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] Her research investigates the development of new materials for batteries.[1] She worked with Barack Obama on an educational initiative to train young Americans in clean energy.[4]

Betar Gallant
Born
Betar Maurkah Gallant
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsBatteries
Li batteries
CO₂ conversion[1]
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
ThesisLayer-by-layer assembled carbon nanotube nanostructures for high-power and high-energy lithium storage (2010)
Doctoral advisorYang Shao-Horn[2]
Websitegallant.mit.edu

Early life and education

Gallant grew up in a scientific family: her mother worked in urban planning and her father worked in engineering.[5] While she was a teenager, Gallant's father died from an illness and she started to read his old physics textbooks.[5] Gallant was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and took part in a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program with Yang Shao-Horn.[5] Together they explored electrochemistry.[5] During 2009, Gallant joined the United States Department of Energy Energy Technology Program, where she led the Regaining our Energy Science and Engineering Edge initiative.[6] RE-ENERGYSE was developed by the Obama White House to educate young Americans in clean energy research.[7] Gallant completed her doctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she developed carbon nanotube structures for lithium batteries supervised by Shao-Horn.[2]

Research and career

Gallant moved to California Institute of Technology, where she woked as a Kavli Nanoscience Fellow.[5] She was appointed to the faculty at MIT in 2015. She initially investigated the incorporation of carbon dioxide into batteries as a strategy to mitigate greenhouse gases. This research led her to investigate the electrochemical reactions of carbon dioxide, and propose new strategies to simplify carbon capture.[8] She pioneered the use of electrochemical strategies to separate carbon dioxide from amine, the sorbent molecule used in carbon capture and storage. She showed that by separating the carbon dioxide and the amine, it was possible to extend the reaction, eventually making a stable solid form of carbon dioxide that was easy to separate.[8][9] Gallant has studied the mechanisms that underpin the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI).[9]

Despite non-rechargeable batteries being critical in medical devices like pacemakers, so far, innovation in battery research has mainly considered rechargeable batteries.[10] Gallant decided to address this research gap, developing long-lasting non-rechargeable batteries based on fluorinated electrolytes.[10]

Awards and honors
  • 2016 MIT Bose Research Fellow[11]
  • 2019 Army Research Office Young Investigator[12]
  • 2019 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching[13]
  • 2019 Scialog Fellow Advanced Energy Storage Fellow[14]
  • 2020 Scialog Fellow Negative Emissions Science Fellow[15]
  • 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[16]
  • 2021 ECS Battery Division Early Career Award[17]
  • 2022 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship[6]

Selected publications
  • Seung Woo Lee; Naoaki Yabuuchi; Betar M Gallant; Shuo Chen; Byeong-Su Kim; Paula T Hammond; Yang Shao-Horn (20 June 2010). "High-power lithium batteries from functionalized carbon-nanotube electrodes". Nature Nanotechnology. 5 (7): 531–537. Bibcode:2010NatNa...5..531L. doi:10.1038/NNANO.2010.116. ISSN 1748-3387. PMID 20562872. S2CID 1707119. Wikidata Q54309227.
  • Robert R. Mitchell; Betar M. Gallant; Carl V. Thompson; Yang Shao-Horn (2011). "All-carbon-nanofiber electrodes for high-energy rechargeable Li–O2 batteries". Energy & Environmental Science. 4 (8): 2952. doi:10.1039/C1EE01496J. ISSN 1754-5692. S2CID 96799565. Wikidata Q55983091.
  • Betar M. Gallant; David G. Kwabi; Robert R. Mitchell; Jigang Zhou; Carl V. Thompson; Yang Shao-Horn (2013). "Influence of Li2O2 morphology on oxygen reduction and evolution kinetics in Li–O2 batteries". Energy & Environmental Science. 6 (8): 2518. doi:10.1039/C3EE40998H. ISSN 1754-5692. S2CID 94358456. Wikidata Q60014990.

References
  1. Betar Gallant publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Gallant, Betar (2010). Layer-by-layer assembled carbon nanotube nanostructures for high-power and high-energy lithium storage. mit.edu (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/61864. OCLC 704797011.
  3. Betar Gallant publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. gallant.mit.edu
  5. "A lasting — and valuable — legacy | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering". meche.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  6. "Society Announces 2022-2023 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Recipients". ECS. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  7. "RE-ENERGYSE Summary" (PDF).
  8. "Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  9. Gallant, Betar M. (2021-10-19). "(Battery Division Early Career Award Address Sponsored by Neware Technology Limited) Interplay of Chemistry and Function at the Solid Electrolyte Interphase of Lithium and Calcium Metal Anodes". ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2021-02 (2): 200. Bibcode:2021ECSMA2021..200G. doi:10.1149/MA2021-022200mtgabs. ISSN 2151-2043. S2CID 244060943.
  10. "New materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  11. "Projects – Bose Fellows". bosefellows.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  12. "Army Research Office – DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory". Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  13. "MIT School of Engineering | » Teaching Awards". Mit Engineering. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  14. Advancement, Research Corporation for Science. "Scialog® – AES Fellows and Facilitators". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  15. Advancement, Research Corporation for Science. "Scialog® – NES Fellows and Facilitators". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  16. "NSF Award Search: Award # 1804247 - Chemical and structural design of inorganic-organic layers for stabilized Li anodes". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  17. Gallant, Betar M. (2021-10-19). "(Battery Division Early Career Award Address Sponsored by Neware Technology Limited) Interplay of Chemistry and Function at the Solid Electrolyte Interphase of Lithium and Calcium Metal Anodes". ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2021-02 (2): 200. Bibcode:2021ECSMA2021..200G. doi:10.1149/ma2021-022200mtgabs. ISSN 2151-2043. S2CID 244060943.
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