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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to applied electrochemistry and for their reduction to practice through advances in electrochemical engineering.

Overview

John Newman is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Electrochemistry.

Their research largely focuses on advanced areas within battery technologies, fluid dynamics, and electrochemical systems. Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Solidification and crystal growth phenomena
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques

John Newman has published several papers in respected journals over recent years. Notable publications include:

  • The Transference Number, 2022, Energy & environment materials
  • Effect of Solvent Motion on Ion Transport in Electrolytes, 2022, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Increased Donnan exclusion in charged polymer networks at high salt concentrations, 2021, Soft Matter
  • A robust numerical treatment of solid-phase diffusion in pseudo two-dimensional lithium-ion battery models, 2022, Journal of Power Sources
  • Divergence of Velocity Fields in Electrochemical Systems, 2022, Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Their work is also characterized by collaborations with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Nitash P. Balsara
  • Aashutosh Mistry
  • Kevin W. Gao
  • David M. Halat
  • Chao Fang

The most common venues where John Newman has published are:

  • Russian Journal of Electrochemistry
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Energy & environment materials
  • Soft Matter
  • Journal of Power Sources

In 1999, John Newman was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to applied electrochemistry and their reduction to practice through advances in electrochemical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Modeling of Galvanostatic Charge and Discharge of the Lithium/Polymer/Insertion Cell

    Marc Doyle;Thomas F. Fuller;John Newman

  • A General Energy Balance for Battery Systems

    D. Bernardi;E. Pawlikowski;J. Newman

  • Simulation and Optimization of the Dual Lithium Ion Insertion Cell

    Thomas F. Fuller;Marc Doyle;John Newman

  • Comparison of Modeling Predictions with Experimental Data from Plastic Lithium Ion Cells

    Marc Doyle;John Newman;Antoni S. Gozdz;Caroline N. Schmutz

  • The impact of elastic deformation on deposition kinetics at lithium/polymer interfaces

    Charles Monroe;John Newman

  • Porous‐electrode theory with battery applications

    John Newman;William Tiedemann

  • Water and Thermal Management in Solid‐Polymer‐Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Thomas F. Fuller;John Newman

  • Discharge Model for the Lithium Iron-Phosphate Electrode

    Venkat Srinivasan;John Newman

  • Vapor‐liquid equilibria in multicomponent aqueous solutions of volatile weak electrolytes

    T. J. Edwards;Gerd Maurer;John Newman;J. M. Prausnitz

  • Modeling transport in polymer-electrolyte fuel cells.

    Adam Z. Weber;John Newman

  • Resistance for Flow of Current to a Disk

    John Newman

  • Theoretical Analysis of Current Distribution in Porous Electrodes

    John S. Newman;Charles W. Tobias

  • Dendrite Growth in Lithium/Polymer Systems A Propagation Model for Liquid Electrolytes under Galvanostatic Conditions

    Charles Monroe;John Newman

  • Stress generation and fracture in lithium insertion materials

    John Christensen;John Newman

  • Effects of Microporous Layers in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Adam Z. Weber;John Newman

  • The importance of the lithium ion transference number in lithium/polymer cells

    Marc Doyle;Thomas F. Fuller;John Newman

  • Transport in Polymer-Electrolyte Membranes II. Mathematical Model

    Adam Z. Weber;John Newman

  • Relaxation Phenomena in Lithium‐Ion‐Insertion Cells

    Thomas F. Fuller;Marc Doyle;John Newman

  • The Impedance Response of a Porous Electrode Composed of Intercalation Particles

    Jeremy P. Meyers;Marc Doyle;Robert M. Darling;John Newman

  • A mathematical model of stress generation and fracture in lithium manganese oxide

    John Christensen;John Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Battaglia
Vincent Battaglia Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adam Z. Weber
Adam Z. Weber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John M. Prausnitz
John M. Prausnitz University of California, Berkeley
Clayton J. Radke
Clayton J. Radke University of California, Berkeley
Venkat Srinivasan
Venkat Srinivasan Argonne National Laboratory
William H. Smyrl
William H. Smyrl University of Minnesota
Nitash P. Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara University of California, Berkeley
Thomas F. Fuller
Thomas F. Fuller Georgia Institute of Technology
Ralph E. White
Ralph E. White University of South Carolina
Rachel A. Segalman
Rachel A. Segalman University of California, Santa Barbara

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