Author: JNAdmin

I have visited UMass Lawell Campus, HARVARD and MIT at the end of November 2025 for visiting laboratories on flow battery research and discussion about research, development and cooperation possibilities.

After 7 years I visited MRS Fall 2025 again. It is always impressive what new and how many new and interesting materials and methods are developed which can be introduced into electrochemical energy storage and electrochemistry.

The final meeting of the EU project SONAR took place on 13.12.23. As a reminder: In SONAR, seven different research institutions worked on the development of a computational high-throughput screening process for novel organic active materials for redox flow batteries. The demonstrator is available at https://redoxfox.scai.fraunhofer.de. We will provide a final version of the project website at https://www.sonar-redox.eu. In other words, we will now reorganize it somewhat and have already started to do so, so that information and results from the individual SONAR participants will be available.

Finally, and very importantly, the Fraunhofer SCAI is now offering a service for all interested parties as a point of contact for the developed screening process. In principle, the screening is not limited to redox flow batteries, but can ultimately be adapted for all organic materials with specific properties, especially for other battery types.

It has been a special honor for me to coordinate this very interesting project over the last four years with these extremely professional and outstanding partners.

On November 21, 23, a meeting between ESIAP, QUT, Fraunhofer ICT and UNSW took place in Brisbane at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering.

The subject of the discussions was the future cooperation between ESIAP, Fraunhofer ICT, UQ and UNSW.