Today I met with the Dean of International Cooperation at UTS to discuss possible joint activities in collaboration with Fraunhofer and the University of New South Wales. We will undertake further reciprocal visits in the future and expand our joint activities.
Prof. Dr. Chris Menictas and I discussed today the possibilites of maker spaces for energy storage development and teaching.
I am attending this year’s 242nd Electrochemical Society Conference in Atlanta/USA with several presentations. One lecture is about the development and results of a vanadium/water electrolyser and the other lecture is an invited lecture to the Symposium in Honor of D. Noel Buckley on the results of iron/iron redox flow battery developments.
Update:
Spontaneously I had the opportunity to give another talk on flow battery developments at Fraunhofer ICT over the last 14 years. The talk took place in the symposium in honor to Robert Savinells 70th birthday.
Over two days, school classes and interested citizens were able to learn about the current state of research in the Bonn region in Germany. To explain the screening process to be developed in SONAR, Fraunhofer SCAI challenged visitors to find the best combination of active materials to build a complete redox flow battery cell. In general the topic of energy storage and in particular flow batteries received a lot of attention and encouragement.
From August 28-30, the annual International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) took place in Brussels, Belgium. SONAR was represented by several participants with posters and a presentation. Results from the SONAR project and standardization of redox flow batteries were reported. In addition, SONAR organized a joint workshop with its sister project COMPBAT on the topic of “Modeling and Simulation” before the actual program of the IFBF began. SONAR was further represented together with FLORES, the European network of EU projects on redox flow batteries, at a booth in the exhibitors’ area. Participants of the IFBF made extensive use of the opportunities to obtain information and to exchange experiences. This year, IFBF had nearly 300 participants from a variety of countries around the world.
