Joshua Gallaway

DiPietro Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Contact

j.gallaway@northeastern.edu
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Office

215 Cullinane
617.373.3769

Lab

252 Egan

Research Focus

Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, and energy sustainability.

Education

PhD, Columbia University, 2007
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University, 2007-2009
Senior Research Associate, CUNY Energy Institute, 2009-2017
DiPietro Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, 2017-present

Research Overview

Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, and energy sustainability.

Selected Research Projects

Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid State Batteries through Operando Study
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Solid Polymer Electrolytes for High Energy Density Li-ion Batteries
- – Principal Investigator, Department of Defense
Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials
- – Principal Investigator, Department of Energy

Department Research Areas

Selected Publications

Bruck, A.M.; Kim, M.A.; Ma, L.; Ehrlich, S.N.; Okasinski, J.S.; and Gallaway, J.W., “Bismuth Enables the Formation of Disordered Birnessite in Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries.” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2020, 167, 110514.
Marschilok, A. C.; Bruck, A.; Abraham, A.; Stackhouse, C.; Takeuchi, K. J.; Takeuchi, E. S.; Croft, M.; Gallaway, J.W., “Energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) for operando materials characterization within batteries.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020.
J.W. Gallaway, G.G. Yadav, D.E. Turney, M. Nyce, J. Huang, Y.-C.K. Chen-Wiegart, G. Williams, J. Thieme, J.S. Okasinski, X. Wei, An Operando Study of the Initial Discharge of Bi and Bi/Cu Modified MnO2, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 165 (13), 2018, A2935-A2947
G.G. Yadav, J.W. Gallaway, D.E. Turney, M. Nyce, J. Huang, X. Wei, S. Banerjee, Regenerable Cu-Intercalated MnO2 Layered Cathode for Highly Cyclable Energy Dense Batteries, Nature Communications, 8, 2017, 14424
J.W. Gallaway, B.J. Hertzberg, Z. Zhong, M. Croft, D.E. Turney, G.G. Yadav, D.A. Steingart, C.K. Erdonmez, S. Banerjee, Operando Identification of the Point of [Mn2]O4 Spinel Formation During γ-MnO2 Discharge Within Batteries, Journal of Power Sources, 321, 2016, 135-142
J.W. Gallaway, M. Menard, B. Hertzberg, Z. Zhong, M. Croft, L.A. Sviridov, D.E. Turney, S. Banerjee, D.A. Steingart, C.K. Erdonmez, Hetaerolite Profiles in Alkaline Batteries Measured by High Energy EDXRD, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 162(1), 2015, A162-A168
N.D. Ingale, J.W. Gallaway, M. Nyce, A. Couzis, S. Banerjee, Rechargeability and Economic Aspects of Alkaline Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Cells for Electrical Storage and Load Leveling, Journal of Power Sources, 276, 2015, 7-18

Students

Feb 08, 2021

Spring 2021 PEAK Experience Recipients

Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. PEAK Experience Ascent Awardees Ryan Brady, COE’22, Chemical […]

Faculty

Feb 03, 2021

Gallaway Receives NSF CAREER Award

ChE DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER award for “Engineering electrochemical reversibility in disordered materials for high energy density batteries.”

Faculty

Jul 08, 2020

Developing of Rechargeable Battery Systems Using Manganese Dioxide

ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway has a new paper in Journal of The Electrochemical Society called “Bismuth Enables the Formation of Disordered Birnessite in Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries” authored by Postdoctoral Research Associate Andrea Bruck.

Faculty

Jul 18, 2019

NSF Award to Improve Domestic Energy Security with Solid-State Batteries

MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu and ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway were awarded a $480K NSF grant for “Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid-State Batteries through Operando Study”.

Faculty

Nov 13, 2018

AIChE-Boston "Guppy Night" Success

AIChE-Boston recognized ChE undergraduate student Tyler McDonald, as the Outstanding Chemical Engineering Student for Northeastern University, for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Faculty

Jul 23, 2018

Gallaway Receives $104K ESS Grant

ChE Assistant Professor Josh Gallaway’s group received a one-year, $104k grant from the Energy Storage Systems (ESS) program at Sandia National Lab for “Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials,” which will support a collaboration between the Gallaway group and Dr. Timothy Lambert in the Department of Materials, Devices and Energy Technologies at Sandia.

Faculty

Jun 04, 2018

Building a Better Battery

ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway is trying to create a new style of battery that can not only store energy created by renewable power but has a long life, high energy output, and doesn't cost a lot. Source: News @ Northeastern Northeastern electrochemist Joshua Gallaway is trying to build a better battery. It’s not as […]

Faculty

Nov 29, 2017

Improving the Life of Batteries

ChE DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway is researching how batteries work and what will make them run better. Source: News @ Northeastern Batteries, says electrochemist Joshua Gallaway, are essential to our everyday lives in ways they weren’t decades ago. Small batteries run our computers and cellphones, while huge batteries could power electric grids. Yet, the […]