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2025-08-142025-12-24

New paper published – Aqueous iron-based redox flow batteries for large-scale energy storage

The rapid advancement of flow batteries offers a promising pathway to addressing global energy and environmental challenges. Among them, iron-based aqueous redox flow batteries (ARFBs) are a compelling choice for future energy storage systems due to their excellent safety, cost-effectiveness and scalability. However, the advancement of various types of iron-based ARFBs is hindered by several critical challenges, including hydrogen evolution, inferior reversibility of metal deposition and stripping, and undesirable dendrite formation in hybrid flow systems with metal plating/stripping on the negative electrode. Additionally, all-soluble iron-based ARFBs face limitations in redox species solubility and electrolyte stability.

2023-09-252023-11-29

Lawrence H. Thaller passed away

Lawrence Thaller passed away on June 20, 2022 at the age of 88. He will be remembered for the term “redox flow battery” and his early work on the subject in the early 1970s. He laid the foundation for flow battery developments at NASA on Ti/Fe and Fe/Cr batteries, which eventually led to extensive research and development in this area.

Obituary: Lawrence Thaller

2023-09-252025-12-14

Fraunhofer ICT and University of Queensland have signed MoU for research on iron redox flow batteries

University of Queensland and Fraunhofer ICT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for research and development of iron/iron redox flow batteries. The signing was attended by Hon. Dick Cameron, Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, who emphasized the importance of the cooperation for the development of a battery industry in Queensland, Australia.

2023-02-042023-02-04

History of Flow Batteries

With the publication of WILEY-VCH “Flow Batteries”, an article by myself, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Larry Thaller, Gerd Tomazic, Bjorn Jonshagen and Patrik Morrissey was published on the topic “History of Flow Batteries”.
The article is available separately here: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527832767.ch2
Or, of course, in the book: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527832767

2023-01-182023-01-18

Participation in AMN10

Jens will present an invited talk on the results from the collaborative SONAR project at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology in Rotorua, New Zealand from February 7-10, 2023.

https://confer.eventsair.com/amn10/